REDDING, Otis - The Soul Album (Rhino Reserve Edition) - 180 gram vinyl LP
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Otis REDDING
The Soul Album (Rhino Reserve Edition)
Rhino US
180 gram vinyl LP Cat: RHI 780932Rel: 9 Feb 26
Soul Side 1 - Track 1. Just One More Day Side 1 - Track 2. It's Growing Side 1 - Track 3. Cigarettes & Coffee Side 1 - Track 4. Chain Gang Side 1 - Track 5. Nobody Knows You (When You're Down & Out) Side 2 - Track 1. Good To Me Side 2 - Track 2. Scratch My Back Side 2 - Track 3. Treat Her Right Side 2 - Track 4. Everybody Makes A Mistake Side 2 - Track 5. Any Ole Way Side 2 - Track 6. 634 5789
Georgia-born Otis Redding tears through this record like he's racing the tape machine. Everything arrives hot and unfinished, the voice forced forward until it rasps, cracks, grabs again. 'Ole Man Trouble' opens already bleeding momentum. 'Respect' comes clenched and declarative, barked with a kind of physical authority. 'A Change Gonna Come' hangs heavy and immovable, grief compacted into each phrase. By 'I've Been Loving You Too Long', the singing is stretched to near disintegration, emotion dragged past usefulness into exposure. Side two refuses relief. 'Shake' detonates on contact, 'My Girl' stripped of romance and left skeletal. 'Wonderful World' and 'Rock Me Baby' grind forward on sheer insistence. 'Satisfaction' is worried down to muscle and nerve. 'You Don't Miss Your Water' ends it drained and unguarded. This is soul recorded at the point of rupture, all force, no insulation.
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