736 Otis Redding (1941-1967) “Security” 1964

“Otis Jr attended the Ballard-Hudson Senior High until the tenth grade, but then finances got tighter and he dropped out to help feed the family. ‘My mother and father used to go to parties when I was a kid…We used to go out to a place called Sawyer’s Lake in Macon. There was a calypso song out then called Run, Joe. My mother and daddy used to play that for me all the time. I just dug the groove. Ever since then I’ve been playing music’” (Geoff Brown, Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness, 2001). 

Otis Redding  “Security”