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Back to Back (The Mar Keys and Booker T. and the M.G.'s album)

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Released
  
July, 1967

Back To Back (1967)
  
Damifiknow! (1969)

Release date
  
July 1967

Label
  
Stax

Length
  
36:54

Back to Back (1967)
  
Doin' Our Thing (1968)

Producer
  
Jim Stewart

Back to Back (The Mar-Keys and Booker T. & the M.G.'s album) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen44bBac

Recorded
  
1967; Olympic Theatre, Paris, France

Artists
  
Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys

Genres
  
Southern soul, Instrumental rock

Similar
  
Booker T & the MG's albums, Southern soul albums

Back to Back is a live album by the Mar-Keys and Booker T & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in 1967. It features both groups playing live on the Stax/Volt package tour of Europe. The album peaked at number 98 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the United States.

Contents

Track listing

"Philly Dog", "Grab This Thing", and "Last Night" are performed by the Mar-Keys (i.e., Booker T. & the M.G.'s plus the horn section of Wayne Jackson, Joe Arnold and Andrew Love). All other songs are performed by Booker T. & the MG's alone.

Side one
  1. "Green Onions" (Steve Cropper, Booker T. Jones, Lewis Steinberg, Al Jackson, Jr.) – 4:55
  2. "Red Beans and Rice" (Cropper, Jones, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Jackson) – 1:55
  3. "Tic-Tac-Toe" (Cropper, Jones, Dunn, Jackson) – 2:35
  4. "Hip Hug-Her" (Cropper, Jones, Dunn, Jackson) – 2:51
  5. "Philly Dog" (Rufus Thomas) – 3:14
Side two
  1. "Grab This Thing" (Cropper) – 2:55
  2. "Last Night" (Charles "Packy" Axton, Gilbert Caple, Chips Moman, Herb Newman, Smoochy Smith) – 3:18
  3. "Gimme Some Loving" (Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood, Spencer Davis) – 2:56
  4. "Booker-Loo" (Cropper, Jones, Dunn, Jackson) – 3:18
  5. "Outrage" (Cropper, Steinberg, Jackson) – 2:40

Personnel

Booker T. & the MG's:

  • Booker T. Jones – organ
  • Steve Cropper – guitar
  • Al Jackson, Jr. – drums
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar

    • The Mar-Keys – Booker T. & the M.G.'s augmented by:

  • Wayne Jackson – trumpet
  • Joe Arnold – alto saxophone
  • Andrew Love – tenor saxophone

    • Songs

    1Green Onions4:12
    2Red Beans and Rice1:55
    3Tic‐Tac‐Toe2:35

    References

    Back to Back (The Mar-Keys and Booker T. & the M.G.'s album) Wikipedia
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