Otis Redding spent most of his career performing high energy shouters. But in the summer of 1967, while living on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California, he started writing these introspective lyrics. He carried them back to Memphis and the Stax studios where Steve Cropper, producer and lead guitarist for Booker T and the M.G.’s, helped him finish the song. He cut the first track on November 22 and then returned to the studio on December 7 for some overdubs. He died three days later in a plane crash while on tour in Wisconsin.
The song became a posthumous hit in 1968.
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/7C-VscEQugk?si=SG-F9miYa567Hfek
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3zBhihYUHBmGd2bcQIobrF?si=581781e91ab94c0d