I bought this only last Sunday, from Real Groovy in
Auckland. Got it home, put in on the turntable and while it’s on its first
listen I turn on the internet and find out that Duck Dunn has passed away.The music world has lost a lot of good people in the last couple of weeks - Levon Helm, The Beastie Boys’ MCA, Duck Dunn, and as of the day before yesterday, Donna Summer. That’s be a nice little band right there - and odd band, but something worth listening to.
McElmore Avenue, as the front cover might suggest, is Booker T. & The M.G.’s doing Abbey Road. Released only a few months as The Beatles’ swansong, it’s missing a few songs (my favourite, Oh! Darling is noticeable absent), but this gives the M.G.’s a bit of room to improvise on the songs chosen.
It’s a great little album, with the band on top form, working their way through a largely instrumental and heavily re-ordered version of Abbey Road.
Hit: Come Together
Hidden Gem: I
Want You (She’s So Heavy)
