![]() ![]() ![]() There is a disagreement in the Redding literature about the date of the session some have it as happening on December 6 or 7, or both, and Rob Bowman in Soulsville U.S.A. Nobody knew it would be Otis’s last session, of course. Jim didn’t book me for it, and I’ll never forgive him for that. ![]() “That was the only Otis session that I didn’t play on. To his everlasting regret, Floyd Newman wasn’t called. After Cropper told Jim Stewart that Otis Redding was headed over to cut another song he was sure was “a hit,” Stewart rang up most of the usual core of sidemen. Excerpted from "Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records and the Transformation of Southern Soul"īack at East McLemore Street on December 7, 1967, most of the session players had dispersed for the day. ![]()
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