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Otis Blue
Otis Redding
Otis Blue
Genres: Pop, R&B
 
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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 rel...  more »

     
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All Artists: Otis Redding
Title: Otis Blue
Members Wishing: 4
Total Copies: 0
Label: Rhino Flashback
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 7/15/2008
Genres: Pop, R&B
Styles: Oldies, Vocal Pop, Soul
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 081227991975

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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".

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Nobody like otis
Manuela Reid | edgewood nm | 06/30/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)

"there is good music and there is g r e a t music...

Otis band could not be better..

and this loveman is much more than a skillful, wonderful soulsinger, he is a poet of the heart"