Melting Pot (Booker T album)
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The album's title track was edited for length and issued by Stax as a single in spring 1971. "Melting Pot" peaked at number 45 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] in the [[United States]] and at number 21 on the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|''Billboard'' R&B singles]] chart. | The album's title track was edited for length and issued by Stax as a single in spring 1971. "Melting Pot" peaked at number 45 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] in the [[United States]] and at number 21 on the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|''Billboard'' R&B singles]] chart. | ||
+ | ==Track listing== | ||
+ | All songs written by Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Al Jackson Jr. except "Kinda Easy Like", by Jones, Cropper, Jackson, and Lewis Steinberg. | ||
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+ | Side One | ||
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+ | "Melting Pot" – 8:15 | ||
+ | "Back Home" – 4:40 | ||
+ | "Chicken Pox" – 3:26 | ||
+ | "[[Fuquawi]]" – 3:40 | ||
+ | Side Two | ||
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+ | "Kinda Easy Like" – 8:43 | ||
+ | "Hi Ride" – 2:36 | ||
+ | "L.A. Jazz Song" – 4:18 | ||
+ | "Sunny Monday" – 4:35 | ||
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Melting Pot is a 1971 studio album recorded by Booker T. & the M.G.'s for Stax Records. It is the last album to feature the group's classic lineup of Jones, Cropper, Dunn, and Jackson and the first of their albums to contain longer, jam-oriented compositions.
Background
By 1970, bandleader/keyboardist Booker T. Jones had become estranged from Stax, as he protested the changing atmosphere under the leadership of executive Al Bell. Jones left Memphis, Tennessee, where Stax was headquartered, and moved to California while guitarist Steve Cropper, also dissatisfied with the new Stax atmosphere, opened his own studio in Memphis, spending less and less time at the Stax studio. Melting Pot was recorded in New York City, between M.G.'s gigs, as Jones refused to record in Memphis and wanted the band to create a different sound for the new album.
The album's title track was edited for length and issued by Stax as a single in spring 1971. "Melting Pot" peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and at number 21 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.
Track listing
All songs written by Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Al Jackson Jr. except "Kinda Easy Like", by Jones, Cropper, Jackson, and Lewis Steinberg.
Side One
"Melting Pot" – 8:15 "Back Home" – 4:40 "Chicken Pox" – 3:26 "Fuquawi" – 3:40 Side Two
"Kinda Easy Like" – 8:43
"Hi Ride" – 2:36
"L.A. Jazz Song" – 4:18
"Sunny Monday" – 4:35