Lileks:
We drove home with the windows down and the music blasting: a “Princess and the Pauper” song for her, “Time is Tight” afterwards. How come we have to listen to your song?
Because it is sheer perfection, honey. It’s not just the drums, although they’re perfect; it’s not just the spare guitar line played with an unerringly sublime ration of both chunk and funk, and it’s not the organ. It is all these things together as Booker T meant them to be.
Someday soon, I'll be teaching my kid about Booker T., too.
And as they were the house band for Stax, you should pick up "The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968." Not only does Booker T have 15 singles in the collection, but I'd take the Stax R&B over Motown any day.
