Title: Otis Redding - The Dock Of The Bay
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1968, Soul, Southern Soul, Macon
Matrix #: VOLT S-419
Condition: VG+, sounds great, pretty scuffed up
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle Redding left school young and worked to help support his family, carrying that working-class urgency into everything he recorded.
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Studio Lore "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was left partly unfinished; the famous whistling came in where Otis still meant to add more vocals.
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Media Narrative Released after his fatal 1967 plane crash, the album turned him from a Stax star into a posthumous soul martyr for the wider pop audience.
