They included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Howling Wolf and Otis Redding.

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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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