'Slim Jenkins' Place' shows off Booker T.
'Slum Baby,' from three years later, features a much smoother and funkier sound. 'Booker-Loo,' one of the pieces unique to this set, features some very crunchy rhythm guitar and flamboyant organ work in its intro, before Steve Cropper takes center stage with an unusually flashy lead guitar solo spot. The collection does jump around a bit across history in the course of covering the years 1963-1971, bouncing between late-'60s singles and album tracks and odd early/middle-'60s tracks.
It's not remotely as comprehensive as Fantasy Records' three-CD set (although this disc does have two tracks, 'Booker-Loo' and 'Slum Baby,' that don't appear on the triple-CD set) but is more comprehensive and better representative of their work (and offers better sound) than either Fantasy's single-disc best-of or the old Atlantic Records' best-of compilation. This 16-song CD, clocking in at 46 minutes, is the second-best, and the handiest and most easily affordable, compilation available on Booker T.
