{"id":4559,"date":"2014-01-28T13:44:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T18:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2014-03-19T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T20:29:42","slug":"booker-t-and-the-mgs-boot-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4559","title":{"rendered":"Booker T and the MGs – Boot-Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Booker T and the MGs<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Listen\/Download Booker T and the MGs – Boot-Leg <\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to the middle of the week, in which we endeavor to assist you in your journey over the hump.<\/p>\n

The tune I bring you today is an old favorite of mine that I recently pulled from the crates, dropped into my playbox and reappraised, as it were.<\/p>\n

I have always dug Booker T and the MGs<\/strong> \u2018Boot-Leg\u2019, but it was one of those sides that I never really listened to closely, or at least closely enough that I really \u2018got\u2019 it.<\/p>\n

The tune, which made it into the R&B Top 10 in 1965, and was one of the 45s in John Lennon\u2019s<\/strong> famed portable jukebox, is classic, down and dirty Stax groove.<\/p>\n

Written by Packy Axton<\/strong> (of the Mar-Keys, Packers<\/strong> etc), Duck Dunn, Isaac Hayes<\/strong> and Al Jackson Jr.<\/strong>, \u2018Boot-Leg\u2019 opens with some remarkably distorted guitar from Steve Cropper<\/strong> which then drops down into a positively booming guitar\/bass tandem line. The bass sound is crazy deep.<\/p>\n

Al Jackson is \u2013 as was the norm \u2013 screwed right down into the pocket, and there\u2019s even a groovy sax solo (not sure if it\u2019s Packy or Andrew Love<\/strong> of the Memphis Horns<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

It is a particularly tasty Booker T and the MGs side, and worthy of your attention.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it as much as I do, and I\u2019ll see you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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NOTE: Reading Robert Gordon’s Stax history ‘Respect Yourself’ and discovered that this recording has Isaac Hayes replacing Booker T (who was away at college) on organ, and features the very first appearance by Duck Dunn (replacing Lewie Steinberg) on bass!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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