Soul Dressing

Soul Dressing
Studio album by Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Released	March 1965
Recorded	1963-1964 at Stax Recording Studio, Memphis
Genre	Soul-funk, soul jazz, R&B, instrumental rock
Length	31:05
Label	Stax/Atlantic
Producer	Jim Stewart
Booker T. & the M.G.'s chronology
Green Onions (1962) Soul Dressing (1965) And Now! (1966)

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Soul Dressing is the second album by the Southern soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released in March 1965.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Cropper, Al Jackson Jr., Booker T. Jones, and Lewie Steinberg, unless noted

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Soul Dressing"		2:28
2.	"Tic-Tac-Toe"		2:34
3.	"Big Train"		2:32
4.	"Jellybread"		2:32
5.	"Aw' Mercy"		2:38
6.	"Outrage"	Cropper, Jackson, Steinberg, William Allan	2:35
Total length:			15:19

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Night Owl Walk"		3:14
2.	"Chinese Checkers"		2:29
3.	"Home Grown"		3:14
4.	"Mercy Mercy"	Don Covay, Ronald Alonzo Miller	2:36
5.	"Plum Nellie"		2:07
6.	"Can't Be Still"		1:59

Personnel

Booker T. & the M.G.s

• Booker T. Jones - piano, Hammond organ, Wurlitzer electric piano
• Steve Cropper - guitar
• Lewis Steinberg - bass guitar
• Al Jackson Jr. - drums

Additional personnel

• Wayne Jackson - trumpet
• Floyd Newman - baritone saxophone
• Charles "Packy" Axton - tenor saxophone
• Marvin Israel - cover design

In popular culture

• The track "Plum Nellie" was recorded by British rock band Small Faces in 1966, and released on their compilation album From the Beginning in 1967.