Dug out an unlabeled mix to listen to today and had me a "Phew!" moment after hearing Little Milton's "Grits Ain't Groceries". He recorded the song at least twice, once for Checker and once for Stax. Based on the backing band, my guess is that this is the Stax version, Everything about it reeks of the label, and as good as Milton sounds, and how tight the horns arrangement is, the real star on this sucker is the bass. And you know what that means: killer bass plus Stax almost always equals Donald "Duck" Dunn. Whoever it is, it drives the song.
Another little factoid about Little Milton, that's impressive if you geek out about record labels: Amongst the many labels that Milton recorded for are Stax, Chess and Sun. Yeah, you've probably guessed, that's a holy trinity around here.
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