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McLemore Avenue – Booker T & The MG's
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Released in January 1970, McLemore Avenue is a tribute to Abbey Road, the landmark recording released by the Beatles the prior summer. McLemore Avenue sets up an interesting cause-and-effect loop by putting an R&B spin on songs by a profoundly innovative British pop-rock band that, ironically, emerged years earlier from the most basic elements of American R&B.McLemore Avenue was inspired by "my pure fascination and admiration of the work that [the Beatles] had done," says keyboardist Booker T. Jones in the reissue liner notes by music historian Ashley Kahn. “I didn't know their inner workings. I found out later. I had a picture of those guys as a perfect unit. I didn't know that they fought, had arguments, or that they needed referees.The tribute album “represents a fascinating and musically compelling intersection,” says Phillips. “On one hand, you can look at the strength of the Beatles' songs, and how they're such strong songs that they can be successfully adapted - in the right hands - to soulful instrumental versions. At the same time, it is of course a testament to Booker T. & the MGs' creativity and soulfulness and groove. It's not only a very interesting musical intersection, but it's also a very deep and at the same time a very fun listen. "
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