“Who?” He’s the director of the foundation that runs the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and Stax Music Academy. Sadly, these are the only intuitions that remains of the once-proud Stax Records. “Oh. Shit. That sucks.” Yeah. It do. Many of the Stax / Volt artists outside of those who toured with Redding in […]
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King & Queen: Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
My liege. If I may: Album Specs Released: March 16, 1967 Where Recorded: Stax Records. Memphis, TN Record Labels: Stax / Atlantic / Rhino (current. By Time / Warner – manufactured and marketed) Produced by: Booker T. & the MG’s, Jim Stewart, Isaac Hayes (pre-Shaft), David Porter Album Peak Chart: #36 on Billboard Top LPs. […]
Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
Quite true, but the last album he records before his death is a duet album, “King & Queen,” with Carla Thomas. The rest are songs cobbled together after his death. Trust me, I wish there was more to write, review, and most importantly, hear. Otis’ life gives testament to the idea that you should do […]
“The Soul Album,” Otis Redding’s 4th studio album.
I played “The Soul Album” for two months before soft reviewing it. I took it up and down California and Oregon, morning and night. I took it with me out drinking in Silicon Valley and walking abandoned train tracks along the Oregon Coast. I took it with me to the gym. I took it writing […]
Martin Rosenberg 2017-2018 World Traveling Adventure.
Katie offered to help him take his spare bags to the car when I stopped her. “He’s gonna have to learn how to do it.” They were headed to OAK airport and late. In two hours Marty was flying out of Oakland, down to LAX for a connecting flight to New Zealand tonight. From there, […]
Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Otis Blue does have as many originals as it does Sam Cooke covers (3), a fact that intrigues me. This album was cut 9 months after Sam Cooke passed away, but this was the second album Otis cut since Sam’s passing, the aforementioned “Soul Ballads”, and on it he had only recorded one Sam cover: […]
The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
Album Specs Released: March 1, 1965 Where Recorded: Stax Records. Memphis, TN Record Labels: Volt (Stax) / Alco (Atlantic) / Rhino (current. By Time / Warner – manufactured and marketed ) Produced by: Steve Cropper, Jim Stewart, Booker T & the MG’s Album Peak Chart: 147 on Billboard Pop Charts. Not sure about R&B charts. […]
Wolfgang’s music app is streaming free
What is Wolfgang’s Music App? Wolfgang’s vault is named after Bill Graham’s collection. A huge warehouse holding Bill Graham’s tapes and memorabilia was sold off to Minnesota businessman William E. Sagan, who went into the business of digitizing the tape collection and selling the digital audio copies of the show, along with memorabilia, on his […]
Where Otis Redding was born?
So, I did some digging. Here’s what I found: The answer: Otis Redding was presumed to have been born in his parents’home on the Laing plantation lands near Rt. 55 & County Rt. 3 around Clark’s Mill, Georgia, 7 miles south of Dawson, Georgia (9.3 miles from the center of Dawson). How did I find […]
Is Otis Redding Alive? If not, how did Otis Redding die.
Cauley recalled the events of that tragedy in a 2014 interview with The Badger Herald: “I reached down and unbuckled my seat, I don’t know why, I just reached down and unbuckled it.” He added hearing the calls for help from Ronnie Caldwell & Carl Cunningham , but because Cauley himself couldn’t swim and was […]