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Otis Redding's recording career really only lasted five years, from 1962 through 1967 (seven studio albums in all), and the balance of it, along with his biggest hits, really only came in the last two years of that time, with his biggest hit and first number one, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," released after his death. All of it was enough, though, to establish Redding as the greatest performer of the classic deep soul era, a designation he undoubtedly deserves. There are plenty of greatest-hits-type collections out there for those interested in Redding's pop and R&B chart impact, and at first glance, Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding seems like another of those. It has some of his classic hits, true, like "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "Free Me," and "These Arms of Mine," but the rest of the dozen tracks are more obscure, although they're neither filler nor randomly chosen, each contributing to the overall theme, emerging as a powerfully unified compilation full of the pain, loss, and yearning that go along with being in love. Then there's the look of this set. It's done up to look like a Stax album release from the 1960s, and even the liner notes are in the present tense, as if this were simply a long lost reissued Redding album with nothing changed as it pops up again in the 21st century. It pulls off the hat trick of being a nice introduction to the deeper side of Redding's catalog, an intelligent, carefully considered facsimile of one of his original Stax albums, and a fresh statement on the issues and risks of love, all of which lead the listener straight back to the greatness of Otis Redding. It's the way reissues should work in a perfect world, not just presenting old material, but also arranging it in a striking new manner that leads us back to a great artist we thought we already knew.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
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Otis Redding, MainArtist - Eddie Floyd, ComposerLyricist - Booker T. Jones, Jr., ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Al Jackson, Jr., Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wayne Jackson, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Booker T. Jones, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Rock, ComposerLyricist - Andrew Love, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Otis Redding, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Isaac Hayes, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Cropper, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - FLOYD NEWMAN, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Stewart, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Donald "Duck" Dunn, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - David Luke, Remix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Stax Staff, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1992 Fantasy, Inc.
Otis Redding, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Gene Lawson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Otis Redding, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1992 Fantasy, Inc.
Otis Redding, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Otis Redding, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jim Stewart, Producer
℗ 1962 Atlantic Recording Corporation
Otis Redding, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jerry Butler, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
Alvertis Isbell, ComposerLyricist - Otis Redding, MainArtist - Eddie Floyd, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1991 Concord Music Group, Inc.
Al Jackson, Jr., Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wayne Jackson, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Booker T. Jones, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Love, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Otis Redding, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Isaac Hayes, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - FLOYD NEWMAN, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Jenkins, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Stewart, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Donald "Duck" Dunn, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - STEPHEN CROPPER, ComposerLyricist - Stax Staff, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1992 Fantasy, Inc.
Al Jackson, Jr., Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wayne Jackson, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Booker T. Jones, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Zelma Redding, Composer - Andrew Love, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Otis Redding, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Isaac Hayes, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Cropper, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - FLOYD NEWMAN, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Stewart, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - Donald "Duck" Dunn, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - David Luke, Remix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Stax Staff, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1991 Fantasy, Inc.
John Marascalco, ComposerLyricist - Al Jackson, Jr., Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Wayne Jackson, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Booker T. Jones, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Love, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Otis Redding, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Isaac Hayes, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Steve Cropper, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - FLOYD NEWMAN, Baritone Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jim Stewart, Recording Supervisor, StudioPersonnel - The Mar-Keys, Ensemble - Donald "Duck" Dunn, Electric Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Leo Price, ComposerLyricist - Booker T. & The M.G.'s, Ensemble - Stax Staff, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1992 Fantasy, Inc.
Otis Redding, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Atlantic Recording Corp.
Album review
Otis Redding's recording career really only lasted five years, from 1962 through 1967 (seven studio albums in all), and the balance of it, along with his biggest hits, really only came in the last two years of that time, with his biggest hit and first number one, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," released after his death. All of it was enough, though, to establish Redding as the greatest performer of the classic deep soul era, a designation he undoubtedly deserves. There are plenty of greatest-hits-type collections out there for those interested in Redding's pop and R&B chart impact, and at first glance, Lonely & Blue: The Deepest Soul of Otis Redding seems like another of those. It has some of his classic hits, true, like "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "Free Me," and "These Arms of Mine," but the rest of the dozen tracks are more obscure, although they're neither filler nor randomly chosen, each contributing to the overall theme, emerging as a powerfully unified compilation full of the pain, loss, and yearning that go along with being in love. Then there's the look of this set. It's done up to look like a Stax album release from the 1960s, and even the liner notes are in the present tense, as if this were simply a long lost reissued Redding album with nothing changed as it pops up again in the 21st century. It pulls off the hat trick of being a nice introduction to the deeper side of Redding's catalog, an intelligent, carefully considered facsimile of one of his original Stax albums, and a fresh statement on the issues and risks of love, all of which lead the listener straight back to the greatness of Otis Redding. It's the way reissues should work in a perfect world, not just presenting old material, but also arranging it in a striking new manner that leads us back to a great artist we thought we already knew.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:35:36
- Main artists: Otis Redding
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Stax
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B Soul
© 2012 Concord Music Group, Inc. ℗ 2012 Concord Music Group, Inc.
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