Time Is Tight

Booker T. & The MGs

Release Date: 15 Sep 1998
Label: STAX
Genre: R&B, BLUES, SOUL & STAX

CAT # 3SCD-4424-25

DISC ONE
1. Green Onions 2:52
2. Behave Yourself 3:52
3. Jellybread 2:27
4. Home Grown 3:11
5. Burnt Biscuits 2:16
6. Chinese Checkers 2:25
7. Mo' Onions 2:50
8. Tic-Tac-Toe 2:33
9. Fannie Mae 2:07
10. Soul Dressing 2:24
11. Can't Be Still 1:57
12. Boot-Leg 2:04
13. Outrage 2:31
14. Be My Lady 2:33
15. My Sweet Potato 2:45
16. Hip Hug-Her 2:24
17. Summertime 4:41
18. Slim Jenkins' Place (A.K.A. Slim Jenkins' Joint) 2:25
19. Groovin' 2:41
20. Soul Sanction 2:36
21. Pigmy 3:55
22. Booker's Notion 2:25
23. I Can Dig It 2:41
24. Expressway (To Your Heart) 3:00
25. You Don't Love Me 2:47
26. Never My Love 2:45
27. Blue On Green 2:26
28. Ode To Billy Joe 3:59
DISC TWO
1. Soul Limbo 2:23
2. Heads Or Tails 2:30
3. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy 2:59
4. Hang 'Em High 3:53
5. Willow Weep For Me 6:55
6. Over Easy 4:05
7. Time Is Tight 4:54
8. Johnny, I Love You 3:00
9. Lady Madonna 3:32
10. Mrs. Robinson 3:41
11. Soul Clap '69 2:40
12. I've Never Found A Man (A Girl) 2:49
13. You're All I Need To Get By 3:54
14. It's Your Thing 3:02
15. Something 3:33
16. Sunday Sermon 3:53
17. McLemore Avenue 1:00
18. Medley: Sun King / Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam / She Came In Through The Bathroom Window / I Wa
19. Chicken Pox 3:30
20. Melting Pot 3:50
DISC THREE
1. Gotta Serve Somebody 6:28
2. Lay Lady Lay
3. MG Party 2:22
4. Terrible Thing 2:31
5. Hole In The Wall 2:48
6. Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay 2:38
7. Booker's Theme 3:06
8. Albert's Rap 1:15
9. Born Under A Bad Sign 3:05
10. Medley: I'm With You / I Don't Mind / Oh, Baby, Don't You Weep 4:15
11. Meditation 3:59
12. Green Onions (Live) 2:48
13. Sarasota Sunset (Live) 6:18
14. I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live) 5:33
15. Hang 'Em High (Live) 3:53
16. Time Is Tight (Live) 4:54
17. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay 4:53

As the house rhythm section at Stax Records, Booker T. & the MGs all but single-handedly shaped the course of Southern soul music in the Sixties. Besides providing solid, consistently creative backing for the Memphis company's legion of great soul singers, the quartet created a body of instrumental recordings that, in the words of producer/annotator Rob Bowman, "always exuded a palpable sense of majesty, grace, and dignity." Contained herein are all of the band's major hits--from "Green Onions" in 1962 to "Melting Pot" in 1971–plus many classic album tracks, rare B-sides, and a cross-section of the reunited group's work in the Nineties--every selection a masterpiece of timbral nuance and tight timekeeping.

Booker T. & the MGs are:

Booker T. Jones–organ, piano
Steve Cropper–guitar
Lewie Steinberg or
Donald "Duck" Dunn–bass *
Al Jackson, Jr.–drums (through 1971)

* After November 1964 Lewie is replaced by Duck on bass (Lewie is the bassist on Disc 1, #1-11 and 13, and Disc 3, #3 and 4).

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