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.
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