The Complete Stax Singles Vol. 2 (1968-1974): Limited Edition Red Vinyl 2LP

We already brought you
29 of the 49 single sides The
MG’s recorded for Stax on
The Complete Stax Singles
Vol. 1; now we’re back with
the other 20, assembled—for
the first time ever!—after a
painstaking search for the
best sources available, and, like on all of our
singles collections, carefully vetted (by engineer
Aaron Kannowski) to ensure that the versions you’re
hearing are exactly what disc jockeys were spinning
off their 7-inch singles on to the airwaves back in the
day. In this case, that means the first 15 songs on
this CD/2-LP set are in mono, the last 5 stereo, all
discographically documented in meticulous fashion
by liner note writer Ed Osborne, whose essay maps
every move Booker T. & The MG’s made during the
late ‘60s through the early ‘70s and beyond. But most
of all, The Complete Stax Singles Vol. 2 (1968-1974)
is one incredible listen, featuring such classic songs
as “Time Is Tight,” “Soul-Limbo,” “Melting Pot,” their
versions of Domenic Frontiere’s “Hang ‘Em High,” The
Beatles’ “Something,” and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs.
Robinson,” a bunch of hard-to-find B-sides, and more,
all played by basically the best band that ever lived!
Go ahead and pick your poison: either buy this on
CD or on a 2-LP set pressed on red vinyl and housed
inside a gatefold jacket. Either way, you will be the
proud owner of some of the greatest and grooviest
R&B instrumentals ever recorded.