Booker T. and the M.G.'s - Behave Yourself

I've got a long weekend ahead of me, and it started 4 hours ago. I'm cool right now, but I wanna keep that cool until Monday comes along. A good way to keep everything leveled is with some good old Electric Blues.

Booker T. and the M.G.'s make a lot of covers, especially on today's album, but I made sure to pick an original. It's slow, relaxing, and just Bluesy enough for me.

Give it a listen.

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Simple song. Steady bass line, some nice organs, drums and guitars filling in the details that are necessary for the song to work, it's beautiful. It's chill.

Maybe a little too simple for some. I can understand it if you need a little more diversity on the notes, that's fine. Just don't completely rule these guys out if you haven't heard them before.

Of course, a lot of you have. They're classics. Especially classic is today's album, Green Onions, which is a highly influential album that's inspired many artists through the decades.

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Some of you might realize/notice that this is the album where the classic Green Onions comes from. Others might not know the song by name, and some more might not know the song at all. Click the link, kids.

The album as a whole isn't for me, though. The more Blues based tracks are awesome, but the truth to these guys is they're not a Blues group, they're an R&B group. And not the modern day R&B you're hearing on BET, I mean the real stuff.

Quite a few covers on quite a few classics, and too many 'happy' songs for my liking (think Twist and Shout). But for songs like today's or the slightly more elaborate tracks like A Woman, A Lover, A Friend, it's all worth it.

Check it out if anything perked your ears.