Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Green Onions (Reissue, Mono, 180 gram)
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Description
"Green Onions" is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Described as "one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever" and as one of "the most popular R&B instrumentals of its era", the tune is a twelve-bar blues with a rippling Hammond M3 organ line by Booker T. Jones that he wrote when he was 17, although the actual recording was largely improvised in the studio.
The track was originally issued in May 1962 on the Volt label (a subsidiary of Stax Records) as the B-side of "Behave Yourself" on Volt 102; it was quickly reissued in August 1962 as the A-side of Stax 127, and it also appeared on the album Green Onions that same year. The organ sound of the song became a feature of the "Memphis soul sound".
Release Info
Label: Stax 701
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
Country: Europe
Released: 2017
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk
Tracklist
A1 Green Onions
A2 Rinky-Dink
A3 I Got A Woman
A4 Mo' Onions
A5 Twist And Shout
A6 Behave Yourself
B1 Stranger On The Shore
B2 Lonely Avenue
B3 One Who Really Loves You
B4 I Can't Sit Down
B5 A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
B6 Comin' Home Baby
