There are 4 article(s) tagged Otis Redding:

• January 2025

  • Memphis musicians, Stax family remember the legendary Sam Moore

    Sam Moore, one half of the legendary duo Sam & Dave, died Friday at age 89. Memphis musicians and fellow Stax alumni eulogized Moore on Saturday.

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    ‘Soul Man’ Sam Moore dies at 89

    By Jody Callahan January 12, 2025

• September 2024

  • The Essential Memphis Library: Otis Redding’s ‘Otis Blue’

    From Sam Cooke to Motown, blues to the British Invasion to his own classic songwriting, Otis Redding’s groundbreaking 1965 album turned everything it touched into one man’s soulful sound. 

    By Chris Herrington September 09, 2024

• December 2020

  • December playlist: Music for the definitely-not-normal holidays

    We can pledge not to go “back to normal.” Normal, in the best of times, found us donating to GoFundMe campaigns to cover emergency medical bills of folks in our music community. Normal was $100 a gig for musicians. Normal is the system that’s broken.

    By Elizabeth Cawein December 25, 2020

• February 2019

  • Memphis music for February: Let’s lean in to the misery

    Memphis has provided the world with some of the great love songs, but love is not always easy. Here's a playlist that takes heartbreaks, loneliness and love gone wrong into account.

    By Elizabeth Cawein February 25, 2019