OTIS BLUE/OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL

UK LP pressing. 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.