Many cover songs are far more popular than the original recordings. Aretha Franklin's version of a song by Otis Redding also ...

Otis Redding helped define soul music during the 1960s, blending gospel roots with emotional storytelling to create songs that crossed racial and cultural boundaries during a transformative period in ...

In Memphis music is amplified between the notes, not muffled under headphones. It spills from porches, churches, barbecue joints and old recording studios plastered with memorabilia. Here, music ...

Sam Levinson unpacked his decision to kill off one of the show's main characters and explained that he had always known it ...

American music is rooted in Memphis. The city helped shape the sound of a nation yet hasn’t fully shared in the wealth it ...

It was an honor to have known and collaborated with visual/graphic artist and musician Dennis Loren. Dennis supplied poster art for several of my books. He also contributed reflections and essays on ...

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Satisfaction”. At the time, the group had already released more than a dozen singles. But it wasn’t until “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” that The Rolling Stones finally had a No. 1 hit in the United ...

Memphis has been many things: the birthplace of the blues, ground zero for the revolution of rock 'n' roll, and the city that ...

Georgia-born Otis Redding’s widow recalls life with and, for nearly 60 years now, without the famed soul singer, in her own words. Zelma Redding, widow of soul legend Otis Redding, seen here in a ...

“I have magic in this building,” Karla Redding-Andrews, the daughter of Otis Redding, says on a cozy April afternoon in Macon, Ga. Speaking to a full hall of friends and partners, Redding-Andrews is ...

Central to the celebration were the performances by students from the Otis Music Camp. Even as more than five decades have passed since the untimely death of soul legend Otis Redding, his family ...