McLemore Avenue (LP)

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Details Booker T & The M.G.’s’ McLemore Avenue features instrumental covers of songs from The Beatles’ Abbey Road album, which had been released only months earlier in September 1969. McLemore is the street housing the famed Stax studio in Memphis, TN. Tracklist Side A 1. Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End / Here Comes The Sun / Come …

Woman To Woman (LP)

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Details Woman to Woman is Shirley Brown‘s first album and finds the singer settling in nicely to a set of slow ballads, all soaked with an ache that the singer seems born to convey. The title track is the song most associated with the singer and one of the great love-triangle melodramas of the ’70s, sparking a series of answer songs, …

Soulsville U.S.A.: A Celebration of Stax (3-CD Set)

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Details This 60-track compilation salutes one of the most iconic labels in history, Stax Records. Collecting the label’s biggest hits, Soulsville U.S.A.: A Celebration of Stax spans the early 60s through the mid-70s, and features the stars who created the “Memphis Sound”; including Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Booker T & The MGs, William Bell, Carla Thomas, Sam …