Tag: Andrew Love
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The Mar-Keys / Booker T. and the MGs, Back to Back, 1967 on Stax
The Mar-Keys were the backing band on lots of early Stax records, and had personnel overlap with what became the MGs & The Memphis Horns. Deanie Parker’s liner notes say “Booker T. & The MG’s . . . is the rhythm section of The Mar-Keys.” This album was recorded live on a Stax/Volt tour in…
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Otis Redding, The Immortal Otis Redding, 1968 on ATCO
The second of a number of posthumous releases that came after Redding died in December 1967 – recordings made during the spring, summer and fall of 1967. Atlantic owned the rights to Redding’s catalog and all unreleased masters, so issued these albums under the ATCO label in the US. Personnel not credited on the release,…