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

" The Beat Goes On" (

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) – 2:39 #" Ode to Billie Joe" (

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) – 4:02 #"Blue on Green" (Cropper, Dunn, Jones, Jackson) – 2:28 #"

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" ( Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland,

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) – 4:50 #" Let's Go Get Stoned" ( Nickolas Ashford,

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, Josephine Armstead) – 2:54

Personnel

;Booker T. & the M.G.s * Booker T. Jones – Hammond organ, guitar, clavinet, piano *

Steve Cropper Steven Lee Cropper (born October 21, 1941), sometimes known as "The Colonel", is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He was the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, which backed artists such as ...

– guitar * Donald Dunn – bass guitar * Al Jackson Jr. – drums, percussion ;Technical *Loring Eutemey – design *Dan Hersch – digital remastering *

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– photography *Bill Inglot – digital remastering *Peter Jujar – photography *Bill Kington – photography *The M.G.'s – supervision (producer)

References

{{Authority control Booker T. & the M.G.'s albums 1968 albums Stax Records albums Atlantic Records albums Albums produced by Steve Cropper Albums produced by Donald "Duck" Dunn Albums produced by Al Jackson Jr. Albums produced by Booker T. Jones