Win Rock ‘N’ Roll Classics in Digital – The Ultimate Otis Redding collection
this weekend Feb 12-13 from KFFB 106.1 . Call and register when asked to on the air at 1-800-896-1669 or register on line at www.ourcontestonline.com
COURTESY OF WARNER MUSIC GROUP
One Redding greatest-hits is pretty much as good as another–his work as the king of soul spanned barely five years, and the big issue is how you want to hear his hits sequenced. Ultimate leads off with a few signature songs, then concentrates on the very similar 6/8 deep-soul ballads that he specialized in early on. Redding, with his gritty-as-cornmeal drawl, could communicate the depths of romantic despair better than anyone of his era, but he was also a great uptempo soul shouter. It’s not until the second half of Ultimate that a few more of the faster, more joyful numbers that he got to sing later on show up, as well as “Tramp,” a priceless bit of Southern humor he sang with Carla Thomas.
