Otis Redding - the Immortal Otis Redding (w/ guest Colin McDonough)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2015

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

Musician/guitarist Colin McDonough joins Brian and Bill to talk about Otis Redding's second posthumous release, The Immortal Otis Redding (1968, Atco). Recorded shortly before the soul and R&B singer's death at the end of 1967, the album shows off a lot of what the singer/songrwriter did best, including what the Stax Records house band(s), Booker T & the MGs and the Memphis Horns, could do. Bill, Brian, and Colin get into talking about discovering great music for the first time, Stax vs. Motown, Telecasters, Steve Cropper's signature arpeggiated guitar in 3/4 ballads, and Colin plays a few licks for us as we get into this album track by track!

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0:00.0	I couldn't love you your way, yet and still you came to see me day by day.
0:24.0	But now I miss you all the time.
0:26.6	No heart can be as sad as mine.
0:29.8	Ain't nobody's fault but mine.
0:35.5	Hello.
0:37.4	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And today we have a guest with us, Colin McDonough. How's it going, guys?
0:43.3	Very well, Colin. How are you? Fantastic. Thanks for having me. Thanks a lot for being here.
0:47.5	My pleasure. You are a musician, guitar player, and we're having you on. And you actually brought your guitar with you.
0:55.9	I did. I did. I just felt like I had to be here. So that way, we might get you to play a few of
1:01.7	these licks a little bit later on. I'll see how liquor'd up you get me later. Awesome, man.
1:06.9	Oh, liquor? I'll be right back. Let me go to the other room. That's fair. We've got whiskey. We've got vodka. It's been there for like three years.
1:14.3	And by the other room, Bill means the bedroom. That's where it keeps all his booze.
1:18.5	Yep, under the bed. Just, you know, just in case the middle of the night I get a little thirsty.
1:22.7	Yeah. My buzz comes down a little. I need to bring it back back. Yeah, we need to ramp that right back up.
1:28.4	You don't blame you at all.
1:29.1	That's okay.
1:30.0	So today, what we're doing is Otis Redding's The Immortal Otis Redding.
1:35.3	Or is it just The Immortal?
1:39.4	I think in the manner in which albums were sort of named back then, I believe it would be
1:46.6	the immortal Otis Redding.
1:48.4	Okay.
1:49.5	So.
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