Zack: I – like many Millenials – know Otis Redding best from Kanye West beats. Gone and Otis were my introductions, but not even those amazing tracks could brace me for the awesomeness that is a full Otis Redding album. Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul was awesome from start to finish and included a smattering of songs that rock bands would cover in the subsequent decades. It’s incredible to think how much artists from all different genres have drawn on one man, but it just goes to show how Redding earned his place in the history of popular music.
Favorite Tracks: Satisfaction; Shake; A Change is Gonna Come
Emily: Zack didn't have access to internet when he wrote his review, so I'm going to correct a statement he made. Rather than these songs being covered in later decades by various other artists, in fact most of these album consists of covers themselves. I think that makes it even more interesting. The fact that one singer can take rock from the Rolling Stones (Satisfaction), Motown from the Temptations (My Girl), and blues from B.B. King (Rock Me Baby) and turn them all into soul-tinged ballads and rhythms really says something about Otis Redding as an artist. Even though these songs weren't new, he breathed new and unique light into them all and makes his versions classics in their own right. And one of the songs written by Redding himself (Respect) became one of the best-known soul songs of all time - by another artist, Aretha Franklin. It just goes to show that a great musician can both take something good and make it better as well as create something great and pass it on to someone who makes it amazing.
Favorite Tracks: Satisfaction; Wonderful World; A Change is Gonna Come
Favorite Tracks: Satisfaction; Wonderful World; A Change is Gonna Come
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