Green Onions: 60th Anniversay Edition, By: Booker T & The Mgs - Model Number: 349783759

Description 

 

One of the most popular instrumental songs ever, œGreen Onions started out as a band jam at a demo recording session for rock™n™roll singer Billy Lee Riley with the famed Stax Records house band. Stax label head Jim Stewart liked what he heard and recorded what would become the basis for the band™s debut album. One of the most popular instrumental songs ever, œGreen Onions started out as a band jam at a demo recording session for rock™n™roll singer Billy Lee Riley with the famed Stax Records house band. Stax label head Jim Stewart liked what he heard and recorded what would become the basis for the band™s debut album.

Christened Booker T. and The M.G.s, they released œGreen Onions with original members Booker T. Jones (organ, piano), Steve Cropper (guitar), Lewie Steinberg (bass), and Al Jackson Jr. (drums) in October 1962.

The title track became a worldwide hit, covered by dozens of artists including the Blues Brothers, the Ventures, the Shadows, Deep Purple, Mongo Santamaria and Count Basie.

The deluxe 60th Anniversary Edition of Green Onions release is a 180-gram limited green coloured vinyl similar in hue to the vegetable it celebrates plus a 4-page insert, including band photos, Stax Records ephemera and David Ritz™s new liner notes

Tracks

CD

Green Onions
Rinky-Dink
I Got A Woman
Mo' Onions
Behave Yourself
Stranger On The Shore
Lonely Avenue
One Who Really Loves You
I Can't Sit Down
A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
Comin' Home Baby

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