Various Artists Booker T & The MG's - Green Onions

Comprised of organist Booker T., guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Lewie Steinberg and drummer Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. & The MG's put Memphis on the soul music map with the release of their first album 'Green Onions', in October 1962. Propelled by its title track, a gleaming rhythm'n'blues instrumental dominated by the attacks of Booker T.'s Hammond organ, this flagship record will quickly become a standard meter of genre, while making the multiracial group the house band of one of the biggest labels in the history of popular music: Stax Records.