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Grammy-winning singer Estelle remembered when she used to strut in the living room when she was younger, singing many of soul legend Otis Redding's classic songs like "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay."... Add a comment on this story Premium Jobs New Retail Store New Retail store in Georgetown is hiring for the folowing positions: Store Manager- Full ...

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Grammy-winning R&B singers Estelle and Ne-Yo along with Anthony Hamilton and Musiq Soulchild are expected to pay homage to Otis Redding by reciting the soul-singer's most memorable songs like "The Dock of the Bay." Redding's sons, Dexter and Otis III, also plan to take the stage at the Woodruff Arts Center on Thursday night.

Before Macon soul singer Otis Redding died in 1967, he spent several weeks in the Stax studios, recording " The Dock of the Bay," and other tunes.

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Rod Stewart grew up idolizing soul singers like Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and Otis Redding.

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OWLS HEAD : Rod Stewart: Soul book . After five albums of a oeThe Great American Songbook,a Stewart turns to Sixties/Seventies-era soul favorites, or as he tells it, a oeThis is the album I have waited my whole lifetime to record.a And Stewarta s blue-eyed soul voice is, for the most part, perfect for these 13 songs.

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Initially a funky instrumental soul combo on Stax/Volt, the Bar-Kays were nearly destroyed when most of the band perished in the same plane crash that claimed Otis Redding.

Standing in the recording studio of the former Sun Records earlier this month -- where arguably the first rock 'n' roll song was recorded, where Elvis Presley was discovered and recorded his first hits -- I was at total peace.

It's painful to think just how much further Otis Redding could have gone. When he died in a plane crash in 1967 at the young age of 26, he was only just beginning to demonstrate what a talented and iconic part of the R&B/Pop/Rock scene he could be.

R&B singers have so many options, it's at once understandable and frustrating how they get locked into one category and spend a lifetime there.

It's almost as common as having a funeral for a musician -- releasing "new" music after their passing.

I'd been hustling a meager living in the coffee houses and psychedelic joints of Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan when word spread of Janis Joplin's departure from Big Brother & the Holding Company.

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