Green Onions (album)


Green Onions is the debut album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released on Stax Records in October 1962. It reached number 33 on the pop album chart in the month of its release. The title single had been a hit worldwide and was covered by dozens of artists, including the Blues Brothers and Roy Buchanan, as well as The Ventures, Al Kooper, The Shadows, Mongo Santamaría and Count Basie.
Three previous Stax LPs – two by the Mar-Keys, one by Carla Thomas – had been issued on Atlantic Records. Green Onions was the first album released on the Stax label. It was also Stax's first charting album, peaking at number 33 on the Billboard 200. The album features only instrumental songs and features Steve Cropper playing a Fender Telecaster.
The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Green Onions" – 2:53
  2. "Rinky Dink" – 2:41
  3. "I Got a Woman" – 3:35
  4. "Mo' Onions" – 2:57
  5. "Twist and Shout" – 2:13
  6. "Behave Yourself" – 3:55

    Side two

  7. "Stranger on the Shore" – 2:22
  8. "Lonely Avenue" – 3:30
  9. "One Who Really Loves You" – 2:26
  10. "You Can't Sit Down" – 2:51
  11. "A Woman, a Lover, a Friend" – 2:33
  12. "Comin' Home Baby" – 3:12

    Personnel

;Booker T. & the M.G.s
;Technical