“Soul Dressing,” “Jelly Bread,” “Red Beans and Rice,” “My Sweet Potato,” “One Mint Julep,” and of course, “Green Onions” and “Mo’ Onions” – Edsel has served up a veritable feast with its recent reissues of the complete 1962-1968 recordings of Booker T. and the MG’s [sic] originally issued on the Stax label during its affiliation with Atlantic Records.  The new reissues pair two albums per package: Green Onions and Soul Dressing plus bonus tracks on one CD; And Now and In the Christmas Spirit plus bonus tracks on two CDs; and Hip…

Stax Records and Concord Music Group have brought the cool to this hot summer.  Music simply doesn’t come much cooler than the hip Green Onions, from Booker T. & the M.G.s.  The landmark album is being celebrated for its fiftieth anniversary in an expanded edition (STX-33960-02, 2012) as part of the ongoing Stax Remasters series that last delivered a new edition of Albert King’s I’ll Play the Blues for You. The main attraction is doubtless the title song, a favorite of the Blues Brothers which has also been covered by everybody from…