The Set List

'Stax Records Story' Gets DVD Release Date

One of the most impressive music documentaries to come down the pike in some time, "Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story" will be released on DVD on Oct. 2.
Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville's finely assembled pic, which aired this summer on PBS’ Great Performances, features performances by Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave and Booker T & the MGs, Staple Singers, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd and others. Doc impressively charts the rise of the Memphis soul sound during the Civil Rights Era.
DVD package also adds bonus content featuring footage from the Stax Reunion rehearsal at SXSW 2007 in Austin, Texas, featuring Floyd, William Bell and Booker T & the MGs.

'Wonderful World' Revisited

Booker T. Jones and Jolie Holland will celebrate the 40th anniversary of “What A Wonderful World” by releasing a new version on Nov. 6.
A digital single released by Anti-, the leader of the MG's said “I hoped it would be something of a healing or a balm for the world right now because conditions are so bleak in so many places and areas. I’m hoping it’ll be a timely, refreshing uplift for music listeners. I’m hoping it’s going to be something to pick people up and to reaffirm hope and beauty – to remind them that there is beauty in the world. We hear so much about what’s wrong and no one is really saying that the world is a beautiful place. It still is a beautiful wonderful place.”
The Louis Armstrong version of the Bob Thiele/George David Weiss tune was released in the fall of 1967.

Set List: Booker T. & the MG's, San Francisco, 1968

In honor of this evening's Stax at 50 concert at the Hollywood Bowl, let's turn the clock back to June 8, 1968, when Booker T. & the MG's played this set at Winterland in San Francisco:

Never My Love / (Sweet, Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone / I Don;t Mind / Knock on Wood / Booker-loo / Hey Joe / Green Onions / Hip Hug-Her / Born Under a Bad Sign / Overall Junction / The Sky is Crying