Stax 4424 3-CD set As the house rhythm section at Stax Records
- Booker T. & the MGs all but single-handedly shaped the course of Southern soul music in the Sixties. Besides providing solid
- consistently creative backing for the Memphis company’s legion of great soul singers
- the quartet created a body of instrumental recordings that
- in the words of producer/ annotator Rob Bowman
- "always exuded a palpable sense of majesty
- grace
- and dignity." Contained herein are all of the band’s major hits—from "Green Onions" in 1962 to "Melting Pot" in 1971—plus many classic album tracks
- rare B-sides
- and a cross-section of the reunited group’s work in the Nineties—every selection a masterpiece of timbral nuance and tight timekeeping.