Latest Release
- MAY 20, 2024
- 15 Songs
- Watch the Throne · 2011
- The Very Best of Otis Redding · 1964
- Pain In My Heart · 1962
- The Very Best of Otis Redding · 1966
- Dock of the Bay - Single · 1968
- Otis Blue (Mono) · 1965
- Pain In My Heart · 1963
- The Very Best of Otis Redding · 1965
- The Immortal Otis Redding · 1968
- The Very Best of Otis Redding · 1965
Essential Albums
- The Dock of the Bay is a testament to the gritty power of horn-driven Memphis soul, Stax-style. Otis Redding's grainy, vulnerable voice electrifies everything from laments like "Let Me Come On Home" and "I'm Coming Home to See About You" to rocking workouts "Tramp" (featuring an especially sassy Carla Thomas) and "The Huckle-Buck." Recorded three days before the 1967 plane crash that took his life, the title track simmers with a magical melancholy and kicks off an album devoted largely to homeward yearnings.
- 1992
- 1967
Music Videos
Artist Playlists
- Intensely soulful hits from a singer who was gone far too soon.
- Sweet and soulful Memphis romance.
- Beyond his romantic ballads, the soul soother got playful.
- Their original tunes have been the source material for some of modern music’s biggest hits.
- Every recording from this short-lived legend is a treasure.
- Saluting the influence of this prodigious singer/songwriter.
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Live Albums
Compilations
Appears On
More To Hear
- The soul legend’s final session left an indelible mark.
- Otis Redding and Carla Thomas’ duet will undoubtedly live forever.
- Sabi celebrates iconic soul singer, Otis Redding.
- Ray Davies of The Kinks on Otis Blue (Otis Redding Sings Soul).
- The origins of the Monterey Pop Festival and Coachella FAQs.
- The ’60s soul classics that inspired Elton John.
About Otis Redding
Otis Redding’s open-hearted vocal presence was clear right from his debut single, 1962’s “These Arms of Mine.” A sustained smolder that quivers and aches with uncommon depth of feeling, the stark ballad still delivers an emotional knockout. But the soul legend (born in Dawson, Georgia in 1941) could burn much hotter than that, too, adding a fiery, full-throated climax to the staid crooner standard “Try a Little Tenderness” and investing himself entirely in the pleading soul ballad “That’s How Strong My Love Is.” Backed by the era-defining house band at Stax Records (including keyboardist Booker T. Jones and guitarist Steve Cropper), Redding mingled the tender devotion of gospel and doleful gravity of blues with the honeyed, hummable tone of pop while retaining a rootsy, everyman appeal. Expressive yet absolutely assured, his singing imparts a stream of charismatic flourishes, whether sultry asides to his romantic subject or knowing nods to the band. Following his tragic death at age 26, he topped the charts with 1968’s posthumous “(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay,” a down-home reflection on being at loose ends that seems to slow down time itself. Redding’s velvety command of his craft has since influenced many generations of singers, including Al Green and Leon Bridges.
- HOMETOWN
- Dawson, GA, United States
- BORN
- September 9, 1941
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul