Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul

by Mark Ribowsky

Book Overview

When he died in one of rock's string of tragic plane crashes, Otis Redding was only twenty-six, yet already the avatar of a new kind of soul music. The beating heart of Memphis-based Stax Records, he had risen to fame belting out gospel-flecked blues in stage performances that seemed to ignite not only a room but an entire generation. If Berry Gordy's black-owned kingdom in Motown showed the way in soul music, Redding made his own way, going where...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871408732
• ISBN13: 9780871408730
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.7"