Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Rhino's first Otis Redding volume was perfect within the confines of a 16-song single disc, and a difficult act to follow. The Very Best of Otis Redding, Vol. 2 is a fine companion volume and fills in some different kinds of gaps. The lion's share of the disc is devoted to 13 more singles, several of which (InchI Love You More Than Words Can Say,Inch InchSecurity,Inch InchThat's What My Heart Needs,Inch InchChained and Bound,Inch InchGlory of LoveInch) are, if not definitive, then still all-but-essential.

Archive collection from the soul great. The 12-song Dock Of The Bay Sessions collection was compiled with input from Roger Armstrong of Ace Records and Otis biographer Jonathan Gould and has the Redding family's full endorsement. Although the individual tracks have been previously released across a smattering of posthumous albums and compilations, this marks the first time they have been assembled to resemble what this album could possibly have been. In the liner notes, musician-journalist Bob Stanley writes InchThis album is the first indication of a new Otis Redding, one that has slayed audiences in Europe, one which won him a whole new crowd at the Monterey International Pop Festival.Inch

Import only two CD set. This collection of 40 tracks from the singer's too-short career serves as both a more-than-complete overview of his career and a great hits collection. This t also charts Redding's evolution as he moved from his beginnings as a Little Richard-like belter to an accomplished performer who later found his own voice on classic recordings like 'I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)', 'Try a Little Tenderness' and '(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay'. He may have died young, but Otis had an old soul. Warner.