When Otis Redding entered Stax Studios on July 8, 1965, he had a single R&B Top 10 single on his resume. By the time he emerged a day later, he had recorded his best album, beat the Rolling Stones at ...

Recorded in one 24-hour session in 1965, Otis Redding’s seminal album Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul – arguably the singer’s greatest contribution to music – is seeing a collector’s edition ...

In 1965, soul artists and the companies they recorded for didn’t concentrate on crafting albums. They put out singles. And once two or three became hits, then a long player with those smashes and ...

Rhino Records’ Reserve Otis Blue reissue brings classic Otis Redding soul back to vinyl, delivering pristine sound and timeless tracks like “Respect” and “Change Is Gonna Come.” In the vintage vinyl ...

It's tough to review a classic album. What new can be said? In the case of Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, quite a lot. The beauty of this reissue is that the first 11 songs on each of the set's ...

Last month, the estate of soul legend Otis Redding made a somewhat unexpected request on its website that had nothing to do with the late singer’s music. They were looking for somebody, almost as ...

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Forty years after his passing, the legacy of Otis Redding remains stronger than ever. As the decades have gone by since December 10, 1967 when the world tragically lost one of its greatest soul ...

Exactly fifty years ago on 10 December 1967, a light aircraft crashed into the freezing waters of Lake Monona, Wisconsin. On board were soul music pioneer Otis Redding and his backing band The ...

Still, when Otis pitched up to Stax’s Memphis studios to cut his third album he was struggling for material. Remarkably, over the next two days he and the Stax house band the MGs would record the ...