My top 10 albums as provided to WTUL's Vox Humana for the Spring 1984 edition, just weeks after I had joined the staff. I still listen to all of these albums. 1. The Beatles ABBEY ROAD 2. Talking Heads '77 3. Mott the Hoople ALL [...]
I’ve been on a big soul kick for quite a while and just can’t get enough Otis Redding. So much so, that I named my fern after him. If only my fern would serenade me. We got jipped when we lost this legend at age 26. Imagine what else he would have done if it wasn’t for that tragic day in 1967. There’s a lot of great music out there today, but it’s rare that we see this kind of passion anymore. Seriously, how can you not shake your ass, tap your foot, or [...]
So, I just watched the first official music video from the Jay-Z & Kanye West LP 'Watch The Throne' and something just didn't seem quite right. The video for the track which is meant to serve as a tribute to the late legend Otis Redding (the song samples Try A Little Tenderness) features the two rap heavyweights in a warehouse district speeding around in a $200,000 Maybach with scantily clad girls in the back. That's about all that happens. Considering how art house their videos of past have been (think [...]
Now this is what I call a "superstars' track". Jay-Z & Kanye West sampled Otis Redding's 1966 track "Try a Little Tenderness" and even named the track after him. Produced by Kanye himself the track is the second "leak" out of their forthcoming album "Watch The Throne", out August 1st. The artworks of the covers [...]
Joe writes: I find their track a frustrating listen because they've sampled the Otis vocal that comes just before the climax of Try A Little Tenderness, so all the way through you're waiting for him to go "try a little, try a little, try a little, TENDERNESS", but he never does. So here is Try A Little Tenderness with that wonderful trumpet intro: and I've Been Loving You Too Long:
Here's “ Otis ,” the first official single off the Jay-Z and Kanye West collab LP Watch The Throne , due out 8/1 . Obviously, the sample is Otis Redding's “Try a Little Tenderness.” The mix sounds a bit muddled, the audio quality is really poor. Is this how the entire album is going to sound? As for the song itself, it's good. The verses are dope and the sample is put to good use. But. And this is huge. Otis Redding's song is one of the best songs ever recorded. It's funny, but really, all I want to [...]
Confession: this is more of an experiment than a definitive list. It all started when I appalled my male coworkers by admitting that while I enjoy the merits of D'Angelo , his song "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" doesn't *actually* get me in a tizzy. In fact, I can say the same thing about most R&B songs that are designed to make girls want to take their clothes off - ones where oiled up, buff, air-humping dudes proclaim to worship all parts of a lady. Their shirts are so huge yet they leave them unbuttoned for some [...]
On December 10, 1967, Otis Redding was 26 years old. 26. His plane, en route from Cleveland to Wisconsin plunged into a lake and he along with some of his band mates, his manager and the pilot were killed. Three days before he died, Redding cut "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay." A month after he recorded it, it was released and became his only number one Billboard hit. That's only one part of the long legacy of great music Redding left behind. He was truly one of the great soul men of all time.
I just can't get over losin' you And so if I seem, broken and blue Walk on by, walk on by Foolish pride, that's all that I have left Thanks to a wonderful teacher in high school, I was fortunate enough to be exposed to the entire Stax singles catalog almost immediately upon becoming interested in 60's R+B. I went from one cd, Otis Redding's Greatest Hits, Volume 2 to The Complete Stax Singles 1959-1968. I think a lot of folks can hand something this comprehensive to a [...]
La semana pasada iniciamos una nueva sección dedicada a traerles, ya sea en stream o a través de Spotify, listas de canciones compiladas por músicos, cantantes y otros; en una especie de ejercicio musical y de remembranza de los tiempos en los que hacer una mixtape era todo un arte, sinónimo de paciencia y buen tino. Esta semana les dejo la lista que Florence + the Machine proporcionó para una sección de Myspace que al parecer no funcionó tan bien, porque ya no he visto nada [...]
"Fact or Fiction" is taken from the fourthcoming Voxhaul Broadcast EP Fact Fiction and Turquoise . the track really does lots of things right. you know, like The Walkmen done right. in affect, Otis Redding done right. maybe even rock and roll done right? TCB baby, tcb. Voxhaul Broadcast - Fact or Fiction myspace buy voxhaul music rating: 8.5
It's hard to believe that Otis Redding was only 26 when his plane crashed into Lake Monona on Dec. 10, 1967-26. Just a kid. You watch that old concert footage and there was this smartly dressed, larger-than-life man whose soul poured out in buckets of sweat. And that voice-it could pierce your heart or rip your head off ... both good things, of course, only in the analogical sense. The Best: See & Hear is the umpteenth collection dedicated to Redding-a two-disc CD/DVD of his songs as well as [...]
OTIS REDDING - TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS (DREAMTIME MIX) (ZSHARE link due to server limitations) Hi Everybody! I got a new DreamTime Mix for you today. It's the song Try A Little Tenderness by American soul singer Otis Redding . In 1967 Stax Records put together the Stax/Volt Revue tour of Europe. Besides Otis Redding it included The Mar-Keys , [...]
OTIS REDDING - TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS (DREAMTIME MIX) (ZSHARE link due to server limitations) Hi Everybody! I got a new DreamTime Mix for you today. It's the song Try A Little Tenderness by American soul singer Otis Redding . In 1967 Stax Records put together the Stax/Volt Revue tour of Europe. Besides Otis Redding it included The Mar-Keys , [...]
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