Booker T. & the M.G.'s - McLemore Avenue (1970) (@256)
I couldn't miss to have a post about the recent reissues of fourteen Beatles albums. Although I avoid buying cds from albums that were released prior to 1985 (or even later), I think that I'll make an exception with these. The reason is that the current editions have been remastered by expert studio engineers at the Abbey Road studios to offer the recordings of the band that has raised the bar to unreachable levels, in its highest fidelity ever.
The related upload is an album that was recorded as a tribute to Abbey Road. All the songs of McLemore Avenue are covers of Abbey Road tracks; the track order was rearranged to form long medleys, while other tracks (Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Oh! Darling and Octopus's Garden) are absent. Finally, as you can see, the cover art is reminiscent of the famous Beatles album, while McLemore Avenue is the location of the equally legendary Stax studios in Memphis, where Booker T. & the M.G.'s triumphed as it's main house band.
review link: here
download link: here (mirrorcreator) and here (rapidshare)
P.S. For those interested a cover version of Sgt. Pepper's can be found, in an older post, here
It's a darn shame that your review link is to this allmusicguide review that completely misses the point. Booker T. & the MGs's version of "Something" is an absolute masterpiece. The whole album shows what brilliant composers The Beatles were and what unequalled musicians Al Jackson, Jr. (drums), Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass), Steve Cropper (guitar), and Booker T. Jones (keyboards) were.
ReplyDeleteI also like the album very much, otherwise I wouldn't had uploaded it. But, amazingly, there aren't many good reviews out there for this album.
ReplyDeleteThx for this post.I like Booker T & the Beatles... What more!
ReplyDelete