However the drumming chair for the record was manned by Steve Jordan and James Gadson. The album featured once again the core three of Booker T Jones, Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn. In 1994, the band returned with their final album as of this writing in 2020 entitled That’s the Way It Should Be. The band would not release a new album for another seventeen years. Willie Hall replaced him for the 1977 album. Jones, Cropper and Dunn returned in 1977 with a new album entitled Universal Language. The band’s former drummer Al Jackson Jr. would become the classic lineup to be featured on every album up until Melting Pot in 1971 from the time Dunn joined the band. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn and Al Jackson Jr. On the third record, Donald Dunn took over the bass duties from Lewis Steinberg. The group recorded their first two albums with that lineup. Jones on the Hammond M3 organ, Steve Cropper on guitar, Lewis Steinberg on bass and Al Jackson Jr. The album McLemore Avenue was released in 1970 and their initial run came to an end in 1971 with the album Melting Pot.ĭuring their initial run and the bands glory years the group consisted of Booker T. That same year they also released the album The Booker T. Booker T & the M.G’s scored a big hit with a movie soundtrack from the film UpTight. 1968 also saw the release of the record Soul Limbo. In 1968, they released the album entitled Doin’ Our Thing. 1967 saw the release of the very successful Hip Hug-Her album. In 1966, they released two albums entitled And Now! and In The Christmas Spirit. The group followed up that album in 1963 with the record Soul Dressing.
Their debut album Green Onions was released in 1962. Nonetheless, the band did release a series of great instrumental records from 1962 to 1971. Their importance was not based on just their own hits, but rather the roll they played as essentially the house band for all the great Stax Record’s recording artists. & the M.G.’s songs list takes a look at one of the most important bands of the 1960s. Photo: Stax Records Public Domain via Creative Commons
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