Otis Redding - Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul (Mono)Label: Atlantic Reissued 6 27 2025, Originally released 1965 Recorded almost entirely in a single day, Otis Blue Otis Redding Sings Soul delivers some of the strongest soul renditions ever put to tape. This includes the Redding original I've Been Loving You Too Long", a cover of the Rolling Stones "Satisfaction", and an early recording of Respect", which was later made popular by Aretha Franklin. Considered by critics to be the definitive soul album

drawing a dark and futuristic sound that's sometimes familiar

Planet Queen (Remastered Version)

Mary Queen of Arkansas 5:22

Tales Of The New West is considered an American Roots Rock Classic that influenced and helped pave the way for the many bands for the much larger Americana movement that came later

a send-up that wouldn't have seemed out of places in Talking Heads' True Stories

This is a transitional release that travels from the scruffiness of the debut's ambiance to more extended and subtle undulating tides of assembled sound

Burn for You (Live)

Israel's Song

Breakup Song

and recording commenced sometime in 1999

I Want to Be Well

compelling