The songs are great chosen, with unusual intelligence, from the repertoires of Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and other soul giants.

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Macon, home of Georgia's Music Hall of Fame, also gave the planet Otis Redding, Little Richard and the Allman Brothers Band.

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The festival also exposed soul great Otis Redding to a new, primarily white audience, whom he called "the love crowd, " Phillips says.

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In 1967, Otis Redding, one of the most influential soul singers of the 1960s, was killed in a plane crash in Wisconsin.

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James' new CD is on Stax, a smaller label that was once home to soul icons such as The Staple Singers and Otis Redding.

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The MGs were the house band for Stax Records, and Dunn can be heard on songs such as Otis Redding's Respect and Sam and Dave's Hold On, I'm Comin'.

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As he tells NPR's Tavis Smiley, he began working for a local recording company as a session player when he was just 16, for musicians such as Otis Redding, Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett.

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It does not have nearly enough Otis Redding.

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