Booker T. & the MG's - In The Christmas Spirit - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Doris Duke (born Doris Curry) first became known in New York City where she worked as a back-up singer at the famed Apollo Theater, and sang on local recordings sessions for various artists. She recorded some demos for Motown, although none were ever released. She recorded her first single in 1966 under her then married name, Doris Willingham on a tiny tag without much success, so she continued working as a session singer, mainly in Philadelphia. In 1969 she sang backup on Nina Simone’s live album, “A Very Rare Evening.” In 1969, former Atlantic Records producer Jerry 'Swamp Dogg' Williams Jr. signed her as a solo artist, renaming her Doris Duke and recorded the album “I'm A Loser” at the Capricorn studio in Macon, Georgia. Although the record was only a modest success, it has since become regarded as one of the finest deep soul records of all time. The follow up sessions with Swamp Dogg again producing yielded another album, “A Legend In Her Own Time” and featured a similar cast of great musicians, this time from the Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama. Presented here is a compilation stringing together the best moments from both historic sessions, recorded between 1969 and 1971. All selections have been newly remastered.

2014 reissue of the 1966 classic album. Booker T. & the MG's delivered one of the coolest yuletide albums of the sixties with their soulful in the Christmas Spirit. The album features the legendary Stax rhythm section quartet of Booker T. Jones on organ, Steve Cropper on guitar and bass & the late greats Donald InchDuckInch Dunn on bass and claves & Al Jackson on drums and assorted percussion. Impeccably mastered by Joe Reagoso from the original Stax/Atlantic masters for compact disc.

This splendid new features wonderful Christmas favorites arranged in magnificent settings that capture the joy and good cheer of the holidays, played as only Pittsburgh Symphony Brass can. Like their successful first holiday recording, 'A Christma. Four WInds.2004.