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1. Ole Man Trouble
2. Respect
3. Change Gonna Come
4. Down In The Valley
5. I've Been Loving You Too Long
6. Shake
7. My Girl
8. Wonderful World
9. Rock Me Baby
10. Satisfaction
11. You Don't Miss Your Water
“Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul” often simply called “Otis Blue”, is the third studio album by American soul singer and songwriter Otis Redding. It was first released on 15 September 1965 as an LP on Volt, the Stax Records subsidiary label.
Otis Redding’s third album showed that his talent was unstoppable, his direction clear and his confidence strengthened. More than a quarter of the album consists of Redding’s versions of songs by his idol Sam Cooke, who had died the previous December, and all three are worth owning and hearing, writes AllMusic. Two of them, “A Change Is Gonna Come” and “Shake”, are as essential as any soul recordings ever made. Although they, along with much of the album, have reappeared on several anthologies, it is valuable to hear the songs from these sessions in context, together with “Wonderful World”, which rarely appears on other samplers.
Redding’s gripping interpretations of “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction”, a song that embodies the perfect Stax/Volt sound and was originally written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as a tribute to and imitation of Redding’s style, “My Girl” and “You Don't Miss Your Water” are also featured. With “Respect” and “I've Been Loving You Too Long”, the album also includes two original compositions that would play an important role in his career. The former became hugely popular through Aretha Franklin, while the latter immediately developed into a soul classic. Among the rarely mentioned gems is an interpretation of B.B. King’s “Rock Me Baby”, in which the singer shares the spotlight with Steve Cropper, whose playing is alternately elegant and fiery, while the trumpets of Wayne Jackson and Gene “Bowlegs” Miller and the saxophones of Andrew Love and Floyd Newman provide support. Redding’s powerful and remarkable vocals make Otis Blue dark, rich and painfully alive, and an essential listening experience.
