Otis Redding – Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul

Recorded over an intense 24-hour weekend session in Memphis with Booker T. and the M.G.'s and the Memphis Horns, this 1965 album defines Stax Southern soul. Steve Cropper's biting Telecaster riffs and Al Jackson Jr.'s heavy backbeat anchor Otis Redding's impassioned, gravel-edged delivery. Whether tearing through his own composition Respect, revitalising the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction, or pouring heartbroken grief into Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come, Redding sings with total emotional commitment.