828 Otis Redding (1941-1967) “Shake” 1965

“Like many early Motown and, indeed, ‘60s soul albums generally, Otis Blue did not feature a photograph of the singer on either front or back side of the sleeve, contemporary marketing logic being that the portrait of a black man might deter potential white American buyers…Released in September 1965, the LP quickly came to be regarded as his masterpiece and the artistic and commercial pinnacle of Southern soul” (Geoff Brown, Otis Redding: Try A Little Tenderness, 2001). 

Otis Redding “Shake”