Stax Profiles

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Booker T and The MGs
Stax Profiles

[ Stax Records / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 4 July 2006

Compiled by Elvis Costello. During its Memphis heyday (1957-1975), Stax became synonymous with Southern soul music...

Compiled by Elvis Costello.

During its Memphis heyday (1957-1975), Stax became synonymous with Southern soul music, churning out hit after exhilarating hit by artists like Booker T. & the MGs, Johnnie Taylor, the Staple Singers, Otis Redding, and Eddie Floyd.

Choice tracks by those artists and five others are showcased in ten STAX PROFILES CDs - compiled by musicians and industry figures including Elvis Costello (Booker T.), Blues Brother Dan Aykroyd (Floyd), Huey Lewis (Taylor), and MG guitarist Steve Cropper (Redding).

Tracks:

1. Time Is Tight
2. Burnt Biscuits
3. Jellybread
4. Chinese Checkers
5. Boot Leg
6. Heads Or Tails
7. Hip Hug Her
8. Lady Madonna
9. Over Easy
10. Hang 'Em High
11. Soul Clap
12. Something
13. Sunday Sermon
14. Green Onions
15. Fuquawi