Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
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Artist: Otis ReddingBrand: REDDING,OTIS
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-07-15
Music Label: Rhino Flashback
Soundtracks:
- Ole Man Trouble
- Respect
- Change Is Gonna Come
- Down in the Valley
- I've Been Loving You Too Long
- Shake
- My Girl
- Wonderful World
- Rock Me Baby
- (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- You Don't Miss Your Water
Music reviews of Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Music Review: OH OTIS!!You Just Kept Whipping Us Until The End!!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
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. 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". 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.
Description of Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
2008 archive reissue of Otis Blue. Otis Redding Sings Soul is the third album by soul singer Otis Redding and is considered by many critics to be Redding's first great album. Recorded in April and July of 1965, it was released September 15th of that same year. Otis Blue includes covers of three songs by Sam Cooke, Redding's idol, who died the previous December in 1964. Their styles couldn't have been more different; Cooke smooth and sure, Redding raw and pleading. But Redding's versions of "Shake" and "A Change Is Gonna Come" show how Cooke's sound and message helped shape Redding's Southern soul sound. Redding's singing reaches a new level of expressiveness with this as well as with covers of B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby" and the Motown hit "My Girl".General CDs
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