Otis Redding - An Unfinished Life - Jonathan Gould
Category: Art
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Tags: Art, Documentary, Autobiography & Biographies
The long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Reddings iconic performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival., Otis Redding remains an immortal presence in the canon of American music on the strength of such classic hits as (Sittin on) The Dock of the Bay, Ive Been Loving You Too Long, Try a Little Tenderness, and Respect, a song he wrote and recorded before Aretha Franklin made it her own. As the architect of the distinctly southern, gospel-inflected style of rhythm & blues associated with Stax Records in Memphis, Redding made music that has long served as the gold standard of 1960s soul. Yet an aura of myth and mystery has always surrounded his life, which was tragically cut short at the height of his career by a plane crash in December 1967., In Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life, Jonathan Gould finally does justice to Reddings incomparable musical artistry, drawing on exhaustive research, the cooperation of the Redding famil
