Turn It Up: August 14, 2012

GREEN ONIONS (Stax) is the 1962 debut of Stax/Volt house band Booker T. & the MGs and was recently given a 50th anniversary reissue. While its funky title track is an instantly familiar slice of strutting organ runs and biting riffs, the rest of the album is equally as engaging with jazzy covers of Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson and the Isley Brothers.