Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's

Advantages: Well compiled collection
Disadvantages: Not all best tracks included

...a founding member of the Mar-Keys was Steve Cropper one of the most influential songwriters and guitarist of the 60’s and 70’s. He went on to form along with the organ player Booker T Jones the even more famous Booker T and the MG’s where he co –wrote many of their hits and went on to co- write "Knock On Wood" with Eddie Floyd, "In the Midnight Hour" with Wilson Pickett, and "The Dock of the Bay" with Otis Redding. Cropper was admired by many musicians of the time including the Beatles and for many his guitar playing was only matched and maybe surpassed by Jimi Hendrix. All these well-known hits are included on this compilation. Evidence of Booker T and the MG’s jazz tinged soulful appeal is provided with the inclusion of the finger tapping cool of Green Onions their best known hit, however many people mostly Cricket fans will also be... Read review

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Advantages: a wonderful return of an american master
Disadvantages: lyrics

..., the frightfully gifted prodigal son who, throughout mountains of PCP and cocaine, never came home. Stevie Wonder, the golden child who, through the power of his moog and his imagination, took the frenetic joy of the revival to Neptune. I Can't Stop, Green's first full-length secular album in 26 years, succeeds in both showing how powerful and real the myth of Al Green is and in showing how the myth can differ from the artist as well. It not only shows why he is considered as, arguably, the greatest soul artist of all time, but also the full range of the gifts that made him mythic in nature, as well as the deeply human element of his art that has compelled people to it for over three decades. Those looking for the master of controlled sensuality and nearly unbearable sexual tension that created hit after breathtaking hit in the '70s will leave... Read review

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Advantages: A great selection of songs
Disadvantages: Some missing songs

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