Doin' Our Thing

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{{Infobox album

| name = Doin' Our Thing

| type = Album

| artist = Booker T & the M.G.'s

| cover = DoinOurThing_BookerTalbum.jpg

| alt =

| released = February 23, 1968

| recorded = November 24, 1967 and February 2, 1968

| studio = Stax Recording Studio, Memphis

| venue =

| genre = Southern soul, instrumental rock

| length = 36:43

| label = Stax/Atlantic

| producer = Booker T. & the M.G.'s

| prev_title = Back to Back

| prev_year = 1967

| next_title = Soul Limbo

| next_year = 1968

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r2305|first=Stephen Thomas|last=Erlewine}}

| rev2 =

| rev2Score =

| noprose = yes

}}

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

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

Personnel

;Booker T. & the M.G.s

;Technical

  • 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)

References