Otis Redding - Complete & Unbelievable - The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul - 1966/2012

Otis Redding - Complete Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
Жанр: RB
Год записи: 1966
Год издания: 2012
Издатель (лейбл): Rhino Atlantic
Аудиокодек: FLAC 24bit 96kHz
Тип рипа: tracks
Продолжительность: 35:06
Треклист:
1. Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) (Steve Cropper, Otis Redding) 2:40
2. I'm Sick Y'all (Cropper, David Porter, Redding) 2:53
3. Tennessee Waltz (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart) 2:53
4. Sweet Lorene (Isaac Hayes, Alvertis Isbell, Redding) 2:26
5. Try a Little Tenderness (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry Woods) 3:46
6. Day Tripper (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) 2:32
7. My Lover's Prayer (Otis Redding) 3:05
8. She Put the Hurt on Me (Otis Redding) 2:34
9. Ton of Joy (Otis Redding) 2:50
10. You're Still My Baby (Chuck Willis) 3:47
11. Hawg for You (Otis Redding) 3:24
12. Love Have Mercy (Hayes, Porter) 2:28

HDtracks

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Chart History/Awards
- Reached #5 on Billboard's Top RB Albums.
- Try A Little Tenderness reached #4 on Billboard's Top RB Singles.
- Is included on Rolling Stone's 50 Coolest Albums of All Time.
Complete Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul is widely considered by fans and critics as Redding’s finest hour. Exuding his powerful trademark sound, the deep-voiced soul singer continued to define boundaries. This 1966 masterpiece includes the definitive classic “Try A Little Tenderness” and a sensational rendition of “Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa [Sad Song].” A broader musical statement, the album is included on Rolling Stone’s “50 Coolest Albums of All Time” and reached the Top Ten on Billboard’s Top RB Albums.
Reviews
...Memphis soul taking over the world. - Rolling Stone

AllMusic,

AllMusic wrote:
Recorded and released in 1966, Otis Redding's fifth album, Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul found the rugged-voiced deep soul singer continuing to expand the boundaries of his style while staying true to his rough and passionate signature sound. Redding's ambitious interpretations of Tennessee Waltz and especially Try A Little Tenderness found him approaching material well outside the traditional boundaries of RB and allowing his emotionally charged musical personality to take them to new and unexpected places, and while his cover of Day Tripper wasn't his first attempt to confront the British Invasion, his invigorating and idiosyncratic take on The Beatles' cynical pop tune proved Redding's view of the pop music universe was broader than anyone might have expected at the time. While Redding's experiments with covers on this set were successful and satisfying, it was on his own material that he sounded most at home, and My Lover's Prayer and Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) are deep Southern soul at its finest, with Redding's forceful but lovelorn voice delivering an Academy Award-worthy performance. And once again, the Stax house band (centered around Booker T. and the MG's and The Memphis Horns) prove themselves both thoroughly distinctive and remarkably adaptable, fitting to the nooks and crannies of Redding's voice with their supple but muscular performances. With the exception of his duet album with Carla Thomas, Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul was the last studio album Otis Redding would fully complete before his death, and it proves his desire for a broader musical statement didn't begin when he encountered the love crowd at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
wrote:
With its somewhat grandiose title, the legendary Otis Redding's fifth album maintained much of the same formula that had been used on his previous recordings for the Stax subsidiary label Volt, combining some fine Redding-penned originals with the stylized vocalist's interpretations of others' material. While Redding always lent his own special raw, gospel-edged stamp to everything from the Beatles' perky Day Tripper to a slowed-down, unparalleled reading of the pop standard Tennessee Waltz, it was on his own songs--such gems as Fa- Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) (his 15th RB hit single), the plaintive Ton of Joy, and the bluesy Hawg for You--that Redding was at his soulful best. That said, nothing quite compares to how he turned another pop classic, Try a Little Tenderness into an emotive opus that became a showstopper wherever he appeared during his tragically short-lived four years as a hit-making recording artist. As an example of the horn-driven Memphis sound, Dictionary of Soul is an excellent reference, and Redding is in peak form as a true American original, whether he's giving '50s hit man Chuck Willis's You're Still My Baby a workover or breezing through his own almost-joyful She Put the Hurt on Me. For the benefit of those with limited knowledge of Redding's specialized vocal vocabulary, the original album included some sidesplitting definitions of terms such as gotta-gotta (not able to do without it) and ou (ouchless excitement), and they are reproduced in full on this reissue of what is easily one of Redding's finest recordings.

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