The Band is revealed in all of its muscular, almost (but never completely) out-of-control on-stage glory — bolstered, in a meeting of musical worlds, by these stabbing horn charts from Allen Toussaint. You May Also Like: Jethro Tull Road Stories: Call this one, ‘Menstrual in the Gallery’ Jethro Tull –Read More

Otis Redding got on a roll at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and he just kept going – right past an agreed upon curfew.

A trick of fate launched Otis Redding’s career. He was, in 1962, working with a flamboyant guitarist named Johnny Jenkins, who had some unused studio time at Stax Records. Up to the mic stepped Redding. You May Also Like: Otis Redding’s “Dock of the Bay” emerged out of crushing grief:Read More

Otis Redding’s 1965 No. 11 R&B hit “I Can’t Turn You Loose” was aptly named, considering that he refused to leave for his next show until guitarist Steve Cropper laid down the song’s famous lick. You May Also Like: Otis Redding tried something new with ‘Dock of the Bay,’ evenRead More

The standard for making this list is that these projects — some lavish remastering jobs, others new live interpretations — illuminate corners of an artist’s work that we’d never noticed before. You May Also Like: Ringo Starr’s Y Not was elevated by a dark Paul McCartney duet: ‘That’s why he’sRead More

Friends, hold on to The Complete Stax/Volt Singers Collection. Squeeze it. Never leave it. After all, the best-known songs on Disc One alone are more than enough to make the case for Otis Redding You May Also Like: Otis Redding tried something new with ‘Dock of the Bay,’ even ifRead More