Otis ReddingBest Otis Redding Albums Ranked

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul (Collector's Edition)

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10

“This two — cd set doubles the pleasure of Otis Redding’s third album with B sides, outtakes, period live tracks and the entire record in mono and stereo versions. But Otis Blue was already perfect in its original 11 — song edition when released in September 1965 — an achievement that is even more remarkable […]”

Otis Blue (Mono)

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10

“On July 8, 1965, Otis Redding was a young soul singer of modest renown, less than three months removed from releasing his first Top 10 r&b hit single. By July 10, he had become something else entirely: It took only 24 hours to lay down 10 of the 11 songs that would make up *Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul*, arguably the 1960s' greatest studio-recorded soul LP. (The only track not recorded at th”

The Very Best of Otis Redding

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10

“April 1960: In Nashville, Tenn., frisky from two years of GI life and his first post-Army studio sessions two weeks earlier, Elvis wails a version of "O Sole Mio" entitled "It’s Now or Never" and croons "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" But then, along with tearing up Lowell Fulson’s bluesy "Reconsider Baby," he rips through a […]”

Live At the Whisky a Go Go: The Complete Recordings

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9.0

“This essential six-CD set captures Otis and his blazing ten-piece band at a vital time in soul music, where a young showman was trying to cross over to the white rock'n'rollers on the Sunset Strip.”

Live In London and Paris

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8.0

“Culled from two 1967 performances drawing on almost identical setlists, Live in London and Paris captures Redding at the full height of his powers as a showman, inviting even the casual fan to lean close to listen for each staging's distinctive qualities.”

Live in London & Paris

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8.0

“Otis Redding didn’t simply "play concerts." The soul giant was a human Mount Vesuvius: He erupted. Redding was at the height of his fame in March 1967, when he played these two brief shows in London and Paris. (He would die in a plane crash in December that year.) And the audience’s reaction is ecstatic […]”