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A History of Soul: Otis Redding

4848 days ago
WFMU's Beware of the Blogby Thomas Michalski Live Music Show - Otis Redding 14 video clips of raw power with the ultimate soul-punk backed up by tightness from The Bar Kays, The Mar Keys and Booker T. & The MGs. Also includes his Monterey... more info

Booker T & the MGs: 'It was just a lucky marriage of us four' – a classic interview from the vaults

4866 days ago
Guardian MusicFollowing the death of Donald 'Duck' Dunn, read an interview with Booker T and the MGs by Barney Hoskyns from Mojo in August 2001, now available courtesy of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music journalismIf ever there was... more info

Donald 'Duck' Dunn

4867 days ago
Guardian MusicBass guitarist with Booker T & the MGs, the band at the heart of the Stax soul soundThe soul music created at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, was an indelible part of the soundtrack of the 1960s. The magisterial and hypnotic bass-guitar lines on ... more info

Memphis soul bassist 'Duck' Dunn dies

4867 days ago
CNN ShowbizDonald "Duck" Dunn, the bass player who laid the musical floor beneath soul legends like Booker T. and the MGs, Sam and Dave and Otis Redding, has died at age 70, his family announced Sunday. more info

Legendary bass player Donald 'Duck' Dunn found dead in Tokyo at age 70

4868 days ago
Guardian MusicBooker T and the MGs groover was a familiar presence on blues and soul recordings and played himself in 'The Blues Brothers'Musician Donald "Duck" Dunn, the pioneering bass player whose grooves drove Booker T and the MGs and hits including Otis Reddi... more info

Andrew Love

4889 days ago
Guardian MusicSaxophonist with the Memphis Horns, who made an important contribution to the sound of 60s soulThe precise, rich brass riffs on such records as Wilson Pickett's In the Midnight Hour, Sam & Dave's Soul Man and Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness we... more info

JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound - Want More Review

4893 days ago
411 ManiaChanneling the old world soul of Otis Redding and James Brown, JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound have been making some waves. But, is this just lazy, recycled fluff or a new golden age for soul? Join 411 reviewer C.A. Bell to find out. more info

(Hot Cheetos) Ten artists we'd like to see as holograms

4894 days ago
Impose Magazine1. The Obvious Let's get every obvious legend out of the way: Biggie, James Brown, Otis Redding, dead Beatles not named John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, Nick Drake, Janis Joplin, etc. These are no brainers and there are plenty others. 2. Ian Curtis... more info

Florence + The Machine Brilliantly Tries A Little Tenderness!

4898 days ago
Perez HiltonMAGIC! JUST MAGICAL!! Leave it to MTV's Unplugged to uncover the rarest gems in our favorite musicians!! Take this for example! Florence + the Machine performed their own little rendition of Otis Redding's Try A Little Tenderness. And needless to s... more info

Florence & The Machine Go Naked!

4902 days ago
Perez HiltonNaked … meaning sans all production equipment!! For MTV's Unplugged, Florence and the Machine performed stripped down versions of their own songs and relayed beautiful renditions of classics such as Johnny Cash's Jackson and the above take on the O... more info

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