Booker T. & The M.G.'s - McLemore Avenue (2011) [gnodde]

Booker T. & The M.G.'s - McLemore Avenue (2011) [gnodde]



McLemore Avenue is a 1970 album by Booker T. & the M.G.s, consisting entirely of mostly instrumental covers of songs from the Beatles' album Abbey Road (released only months earlier, in September 1969). The title and cover are an homage to the Beatles album, 926 East McLemore Avenue being the address of the Stax Studios in Memphis, as Abbey Road was for London’s EMI Studios, which were soon renamed Abbey Road Studios. As a nod to Abbey Road's climactic medley, most of the M.G.s' selections are arranged into their own medleys (with the exception of "Something", which was released as a single and reached number 76 in the US).

Booker T. Jones said, "I was in California when I heard Abbey Road, and I thought it was incredibly courageous of The Beatles to drop their format and move out musically like they did. To push the limit like that and reinvent themselves when they had no need to do that. They were the top band in the world but they still reinvented themselves. The music was just incredible so I felt I needed to pay tribute to it."

Tracks:
01. Medley: Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End/Here Comes the Sun/Come Together
02. Something
03. Medley: Because/You Never Give Me Your Money
04. Medley: Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window/I Want You (She's So Heavy)
05. You Can't Do That
06. Day Tripper
07. Michelle
08. Eleanor Rigby
09. Lady Madonna
10. You Can't Do That [Alternate Take] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)

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