The eclectic mix of blues-rock and psychedelic-funk tracks includes "Mojo Man" which opens with a big Ronettes beat before lurching into a Memphis horn grind.

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The Los Angeles-born-and-bred band Fishbone, which delivered a bracing combination of rock, funk, punk, and ska, was one of the brightest lights of late-eighties alternative rock.

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The compositions are all original, a contrast to the MGs' previous record, McLemore Avenue, an instrumental re-imagining of The Beatles' Abbey Road, and they touch on a range of styles, from agitated funk to thick and humid swamp-rock songs like "Fuquawi" (audio), which features Cropper at his most devastating.

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Several numbers from his 2012 disc, the finely textured "Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood, " allowed Mr. Cale to demonstrate how its funk rhythms and droning, burbling electronic core suggest another way to present modern rock in a forward-looking yet accessible form.

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Their rock-infused interpretation of the blues and folk genres also incorporated rockabilly, reggae, soul and funk among other influences, it adds.

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