Green Onions / Soul Dressing

Digitally re-mastered two-fer containing a pair of albums from the soul greats. This first volume brings together the group's first two albums, Green Onions and Soul Dressing from 1962 and 1965 respectively, with two non-album tracks. 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.