Uncut
Satisfaction!
Recorded in a whirlwind 24 hours at Memphis’s fabled Stax studio, Otis Blue was a landmark record – making a star out of OTIS REDDING and rewriting the rulebook for rhythm & blues. In its 60th anniversary year, collaborators and eyewitnesses look back at the soul giant’s blistering, urgent and emotional masterpiece. “He was a great performer, a wonderful man,” Smokey Robinson tells Stephen Deusner