Doin' Our Thing

Doin' Our Thing
Studio album by Booker T & the M.G.'s
Released	February 23rd, 1968
Recorded	November 24th, 1967 & February 2nd, 1968 at Stax Recording Studio, Memphis
Genre	Southern soul, instrumental rock
Length	36:43
Label	Stax/Atlantic
Producer	Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Booker T & the M.G.'s chronology
Back To Back (1967) Doin' Our Thing (1968) Soul Limbo (1968)

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Doin' Our Thing is the sixth studio album by R&B band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released in April 1968. The album was their first self-produced effort and charted at number 176 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "I Can Dig It" (Cropper, Dunn, Jones, Jackson) – 2:42
2. "Expressway (to Your Heart)" (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff) – 3:05
3. "Doin' Our Thing" (Cropper, Dunn, Jones, Jackson) – 4:01
4. "You Don't Love Me" (Willie Cobbs) – 2:49
5. "Never My Love" (Don Addrisi) – 2:47
6. "The Exodus Song" (Ernest Gold) – 2:38

Side 2

7. "The Beat Goes On" (Sonny Bono) – 2:39
8. "Ode to Billie Joe" (Bobbie Gentry) – 4:02
9. "Blue on Green" (Cropper, Dunn, Jones, Jackson) – 2:28
10. "You Keep Me Hanging On" (Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland, Brian Holland) – 4:50
11. "Let's Go Get Stoned" (Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson, Josephine Armstead) – 2:54

Personnel

Booker T. & the M.G.s

• Booker T. Jones – Hammond organ, guitar, clavinet, piano
• Steve Cropper – guitar
• Donald Dunn – bass guitar
• Al Jackson Jr. – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Loring Eutemey – design
• Dan Hersch – digital remastering
• Peter Hujar – photography
• Bill Inglot – digital remastering
• Peter Jujar – photography
• Bill Kington – photography
• The M.G.'s – supervision (producer)