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Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Melting Pot [LP Remastered] (1970/2019)
BAND/ARTIST: Booker T. & The M.G.'s
- Title: Melting Pot
- Year Of Release: 1970/2019
- Label: Craft Recordings [CR00200]
- Genre: Rhythm & Blues, Funk, Soul
- Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks, scans) / [192kHz/24bit]
- Total Time: 40:37
- Total Size: 231 mb / 389 mb / 1.57 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Melting Pot from Booker T. & The M.G.’s marked a turning point for the influential instrumental group. Released in 1971, it was the final studio album to include the original lineup of the longtime Stax house band (Booker T. Jones on keyboards, Steve Cropper on guitar, Donald “Duck” Dunn on bass guitar, and Al Jackson Jr. on drums). Comprised entirely of original material, Melting Pot finds the four-piece digging deep into some expansive Memphis soul jams.
Melting Pot could be the most well-realized of all the albums by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, a smooth and soulful, yet expansive 35 minutes of all originals, the latter in sharp contrast to their exploration of the Beatles' Abbey Road album material on their preceding album. And the irony was that it was their swan song. Booker T. Jones, in particular, was increasingly unhappy working at Stax/Volt Records, owing his feelings to management and structural changes at the company, and also felt the need to change the group's formula somewhat. Steve Cropper was playing lots of session work that was keeping him from recording in Memphis as well, and the result was an album recorded mostly in New York City, far away from Stax/Volt and largely built on the group's (especially Jones') best impulses. That said, Melting Pot managed to be a sort of back-to-the-roots effort in the sense that they were back to doing originals, but was also a strikingly more expansive record, with Jones in particular playing with an almost demonic intensity and range, backed ably by Donald "Duck" Dunn's rocksteady bass in particular. There were a few other touches, such as the wordless chorus on "Kinda Easy Like" and extended running times, showing the group stretching out on much larger musical canvases.
Melting Pot could be the most well-realized of all the albums by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, a smooth and soulful, yet expansive 35 minutes of all originals, the latter in sharp contrast to their exploration of the Beatles' Abbey Road album material on their preceding album. And the irony was that it was their swan song. Booker T. Jones, in particular, was increasingly unhappy working at Stax/Volt Records, owing his feelings to management and structural changes at the company, and also felt the need to change the group's formula somewhat. Steve Cropper was playing lots of session work that was keeping him from recording in Memphis as well, and the result was an album recorded mostly in New York City, far away from Stax/Volt and largely built on the group's (especially Jones') best impulses. That said, Melting Pot managed to be a sort of back-to-the-roots effort in the sense that they were back to doing originals, but was also a strikingly more expansive record, with Jones in particular playing with an almost demonic intensity and range, backed ably by Donald "Duck" Dunn's rocksteady bass in particular. There were a few other touches, such as the wordless chorus on "Kinda Easy Like" and extended running times, showing the group stretching out on much larger musical canvases.
:: TRACKLIST ::
A1. Melting Pot (08:17)
A2. Back Home (04:43)
A3. Chicken Pox (03:31)
A4. Fuquawi (03:42)
B1. Kinda Easy Like (08:45)
B2. Hi Ride (02:40)
B3. L.A. Jazz Song (04:23)
B4. Sunny Monday (04:35)
Booker T. & the M.G.s
Booker T. Jones – keyboards
Steve Cropper – guitar
Donald Dunn – bass guitar
Al Jackson Jr. – drums
Additional personnel
The Pepper Singers – background vocals
Reissue in 2019 for Soul Explosion celebration.
• All -ANALOG mastering by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl.
• 180-Gram vinyl pressed at Memphis Record Pressing
Year 2019 | Blues | Soul | Funk | R&B | Instrumental | FLAC / APE | Mp3 | HD & Vinyl
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