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Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul
Regular price $31.00 Save $-31.00Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, or simply Otis Blue, released September 15, 1965 on Stax Records, is the third studio album by soul singer Otis Redding. The album mainly consists of cover songs by popular R&B and soul artists, and, bar one track, was recorded in a 24-hour period over July 9/10 1965 at the Stax Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. Otis Blue was critically acclaimed upon release and became one of Redding's most successful albums; it reached number 6 on the UK Albums Chart, and was his first to reach the top spot of the Billboard R&B chart. Furthermore, it produced three popular singles, all charting at least in the top 50 on both the Billboard R&B and the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is considered by many critics to be Redding's first fully realized album. Three of the eleven songs were written by Redding: "Ole Man Trouble", "Respect", and "I've Been Loving You Too Long". Three songs were written by Sam Cooke, a soul musician who had died a few months earlier. As was the case in the previous albums, Redding was backed by house band Booker T. & The M.G.'s, a horn section of members of The Mar-Keys and The Memphis Horns, and pianist Isaac Hayes. Otis Blue is included in a number of "best album" lists, including Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Time magazine's list of the All-Time 100 Greatest Albums, and Robert Dimery's "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Rhino Records released a two-disc Collectors Edition of Otis Blue in 2008.
Pain In My Heart - Yellow Vinyl [Import]
Regular price $20.00 Save $-20.00Tracklist
• Pain in My Heart
• The Dog
• Stand by Me
• Hey Hey Baby
• You Send Me
• I Need Your Lovin'
• These Arms of Mine
• Louie Louie
• Something Is Worrying Me
• Security
• That's What My Heart Needs
• Lucille
The Dock of the Bay
Regular price $27.00 Save $-27.00The Dock of the Bay is the first of a number of posthumously released Otis Redding albums, and his seventh studio album. It contains a number of singles and B-sides dating back to 1965 and one of his best known songs, the posthumous hit "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay". In 2003, the album was ranked number 161 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967-once just days before his death in a December 10, 1967, plane crash. It was released after his death on Stax Records' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US. It charted at number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. Redding started writing the lyrics to the song in August 1967, while sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song with the help of Stax producer and Booker T and the M.G.'s guitarist Steve Cropper. The song features mimicked seagull whistles and sounds of the waves crashing on the shore.
The Soul Album
Regular price $31.00 Save $-31.00In 1966 Otis Redding released The Soul Album. Not a soul album, mind you, but The Soul Album. Not that its title was necessarily intended to suggest that it's the soul album to end all soul albums – especially not when one considers that he also recorded The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads, Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul, and Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul – but when looking back at a list of the many classic R&B albums released during the course of the 1960s, The Soul Album is certainly right up there with the best of the best.
The fourth studio album of Redding's career, The Soul Album found the singer tackling songs penned by some of the greatest R&B composers of the day, including Jerry Butler ("Cigarettes and Coffee"), Sam Cooke ("Chain Gang"), Eddie Floyd ("Everybody Makes a Mistake," "634-5789"), and Smokey Robinson ("It's Growing"). Redding also tackled James Cox's classic "Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)" and Slim Harpo's "Scratch My Back," but don't get the idea that the album was all covers: Redding also contributed a few tracks of his own composition, including "Just One More Day," "Good to Me," and "Any Ole Way."
As strong as its contents may have been, The Soul Album only spawned one hit single: "Just One More Day," which hit No. 15 on the R&B charts. Unfortunately, it stalled at No. 85 on the Hot 100, which may be why it hasn't become quite as iconic as some of Redding's other studio albums. Like most everything else he recorded in the ‘60s, though, it's a stone cold classic and one that's always worth a spin.