And Now / In The Christmas Spirit

Digitally remastered two CD set containing a pair of albums from the soul greats. This second volume features their 1966 collection And Now with four non-album bonus tracks, plus their excellent holiday offering for 1967 in the Christmas Spirit. in the '50s, the Memphis Sound was the phrase coined to describe the music of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and dozens of other young hopefuls that flocked to former radio engineer Sam C. Phillips' Sun studio on Union Avenue. But as far as the '60s go, the Memphis Sound was owned pretty much by Stax Records, and the great music that poured out of the company's studio on McLemore Avenue. The blaring horns and tight rhythms that were a feature of almost every Stax record virtually defined southern soul from 1962 to 1967. And on almost every one of those records, the musical accompaniment was provided by Booker T and the MGs.