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Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul Audio CD

A fair review of the Otis Redding "Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Otis Redding reviews here, or go back to the Otis Redding tabs.

Otis Redding Band: Otis Redding
Title: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
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Release Date: 2008-07-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Ole Man Trouble 2: Respect 3: Change Is Gonna Come 4: Down in the Valley 5: I've Been Loving You Too Long 6: Shake 7: My Girl 8: Wonderful World 9: Rock Me Baby 10: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 11: You Don't Miss Your Water

OH OTIS!!You Just Kept Whipping Us Until The End!!!!
Very few people I know other than Otis and those people could've written and sang the living end out of tunes like "Ole Man Trouble" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long". You can own this album for years,listen to it a lot even and I'll tell you:one of these days when your in just that certain mood it will simply whack you over the head! Next to Ray Charles,Sam Cooke and James Brown Otis Redding stands right in the same league as being one of deepest and most self expressive of soul's earliest interpretive singer/songwriters. On these slow crawling Memphis soul classics the backup of Booker T & The MG's smokes,smolders and burns all the way down to the ground and just keeps going as Otis's voice expressess levels of extacy,pain and pathos that goes so deep into the gospel thing that you honestly except the man to keep howling "MY GOD ALMIGHTY!" at the end and,much as with Al Green after him who actually did, a lot of times it comes pretty near close. You'll get very little argument from me that this guy was definately Stax records' biggest soul innovator (Rufus Thomas doing the same on the funk end later),working not too long if not right along side the charts and radio with the soul masters that came emmediatly befire him. Of course this album in particular showcases him applying the same skills to purely interpretive singing,utterly individualizing the music of Sam Cooke on "A Change Is Gonna Come","Wonderful World" and and kicking n' funky version of "Shake",all of which take the intense gospel fire as opposed to Sam's drawn out and pleading style. The latter is particularly impressive as an uptempo tune. Considering Otis's obvious fixation on dealing with Sam Cooke material there are few better examples of Redding's flair with his material than these tunes. Most impressive to me is "Down In The Valley",usually done up as a very straight and ultra slow lullaby and here Otis's crawling,funkified rendition COMPLETELY alters the intent of the song into this broadly scoped southern gospel soul fave up that just gives you goosebumps! Otis's most well known composition from this album is "Respect". Now his original is equally as funky as the Queen Of Soul's however,there is a far heavier and slower southern flavor of course AND the composition itself is more obvious emphasized with more defined hooks and choruses;no "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" on this tune-the man belts it out with the real deal and without any hint of cockiness. Despite obvious and sometimes cold blooded competition with Motown and Stax Otis pits himself up with David Ruffin on "My Girl" but on the other hand doesn't polish one bit of his performance. Otis crushes any barriers with BB Kings "Rock Me Baby",singing the blues with his own joyous flavors and making not only the song but the entire genre swing his way on this one song. "Satisfaction" takes the obviously R&B inflected Stones' original and totally Memphasizes it with horns and more of that gospel shouting. And to top it all off is William Bell's "You Don't Miss Your Water",a fine almost Redding composition-like slow gospel soul piece again. One of the very finest examples of 60's soul one can find and key to just about any music collection.


Otis Redding Sang It His Way..
Otis Blue,Redding's third studio album,is soul deep down from the Georgia woods, containing the Redding originals,"Respect", "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and the mesmerizing ,"Ole Man Trouble". OTIS BLUE,OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL,1965,Otis Redding also sings the great Sam Cooke,"Shake","Change Is Gonna Come", and "Wonderful World". A few notable covers - the Temptations',"My Girl", penned by the legendary Smokey Robinson,the Rolling Stones', "Satisfaction",and a funky up-beat version of the traditional,"Down In The Valley",naturally all are flavored the Redding way,a man who sang with true grit,one of Otis Redding's elite studio albums. - on Rhino-Atco/Atlantic flashback,remastered from the original mono tapes,excellent audio.


This is a soul classic.
It is the best Otis Redding album, and I believe one of the best albums of all time. This is a soul classic. Every song on this album could be a chart topper.


great songs
this is as good as the original i bought 40 yrs ago simply the best.


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