Universal Language (Booker T. & the M.G.'s album)

Universal Language is a 1977 album by the Southern soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. The album was recorded for Asylum Records, following the demise of Stax Records, of which the M.G.'s were an integral element, in 1975.

Universal Language
Studio album by
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Released1977
Recorded1977; Clover Studios, Hollywood, California
GenreSoul, instrumental rock
Length32:59
LabelAsylum
7E 1093
ProducerBooker T. & the M.G.'s; co-produced with Tom Dowd on "Space Nuts"
Booker T. & the M.G.'s chronology
The MGs
(1973)		 Universal Language
(1977)		 That's the Way It Should Be
(1994)

The album was dedicated to M.G.'s drummer Al Jackson, Jr. who was murdered in 1975; the remaining members recruited Willie Hall to replace him on this album. The group would not record another album for seventeen years, returning in 1994 with That's the Way It Should Be.

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