Mclemore Avenue

Booker T. & The MG's | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 1991)
• Original Release Date: 1970
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Stax
• ASIN: B000000ZKD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,526 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent. That's the way it should be!, April 6, 2001

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Eric J. Reiter "yeah, eric reiter." (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mclemore Avenue (Audio CD)

Okay, okay. Enough with the Booker T. In-Jokes..

This record means business. No fooling around. Split into 15-20 minute medeleys that make you wonder why the Beatles didn't do it themselves (came close on "Sgt. Pepper," a record with almost no deadspace..).. The music.. oh the music...

It's so skillfully crafted; and done with care, at that! It's amazing what Mr. T. Jones can do with his hands and some keys. For that matter, it's amazing what Mr. Cropper can do while revisiting "I Want You," or the guitar work heard in "Because," which is radically different than the Beatles' version (hard to harmonize with no voices!!)

All in all, it's MORE than just a tribute album, it's a very skillfully done proving disc, letting everyone know that, yes, it IS "Abbey Road," and NO, it is NOT conventional!

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Funky Memphis Beatles!, April 5, 2000

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This review is from: Mclemore Avenue (Audio CD)

An odd but great album. Releases like this are common now in this era of "tribute" albums, but in the late 60's something like this was uncommon. Booker T. Jones (organ, piano) and Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass) were big Beatles fans and cooked up the idea of covering the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album in the MG's laid-back funky Memphis soul style. It sounds like a bad idea, but it works. The stripped-down, propulsive MG's arrangements bring an edge to these familiar songs that makes them sound brand new. This isn't the best MG's album, but it's close.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Familiar songs, new music, April 12, 2002

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P. H PICOT (Haymarket, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mclemore Avenue (Audio CD)

I really do love the Beatles, and every little bit of what they do, but Booker T & the MGs' cover of Abbey Road stands on its own legs. It is an album you will play 3 times for every time it occurs to you to play Abbey Road. If you like the Beatles, this an album you will want to own, and if you like Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Jr., and Donald Dunn (yes, "Duck"), you will be glad you own this CD. Either way, get this one.