Booker T. & The MG's In the Christmas Spirit 1967 STAX Funky Christmas VG+
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Booker T. & The MG's ~ In the Christmas Spirit
1967 pressing.
STAX Records - STAXS713
Vinyl plays VG+ or better: wear between tracks and during playback. Side 1 has some faint scratches and minor marks. Side 2 has many minor marks and faint scratches.
Cover is VG+ corner-bends and wear, cover-wear, edge-wear and indentations and a few, small creases.
Labels are VG+ with many spindle-marks.
Original inner-sleeve has a split-seam on the bottom.
Out of print
Note: Purchased from a record shop in 2004 and the owner said it was the only copy he had ever seen in 25 years.
About the album: "Booker T. and the MG's find the groove to come up with funky instrumentals of Yule classics "Jingle Bells," "Silver Bells," and the percolatin' "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." Steve Cropper makes his guitar sing on the down 'n' bluesy "Merry Christmas Baby.""
About the artists: "As the house band at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, Booker T. & the MG's may have been the single greatest factor in the lasting value of that label's soul music, not to mention Southern soul as a whole. Their tight, impeccable grooves could be heard on classic hits by Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett,Carla Thomas, Albert King, and Sam & Dave, and for that reason alone, they would deserve their subsequent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. But in addition to their formidable skills as a house band, on their own they were one of the top instrumental outfits of the rock era, cutting classics like "Green Onions," "Time Is Tight," and "Hang 'em High."
The anchors of the Booker T. sound were Steve Cropper, whose slicing, economic riffs influenced many other guitar players, and Booker T. Jones himself, who provided much of the groove with his floating organ lines. In 1960, Jones started working as a session man for Stax, where he met Cropper.Cropper had been in the Mar-Keys, famous for the 1961 instrumental hit "Last Night," which laid out the prototype for much of the MG's (and indeed Memphis soul's) sound with its organ-sax-guitar combo. With the addition of drummer Al Jackson and bassist Lewis Steinberg, they became Booker T. & the MG's. Within a couple years, Steinberg was replaced permanently by Donald "Duck" Dunn, who, like Cropper, had also played with the Mar-Keys."...
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