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The story of Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the dock of the Bay"

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 4:17 pm
by Ivor
A link to a Wall Street Journal article on the song and Otis Redding's inspiration. I hadn't realised it was such a sad story.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 25300.html

Re: The story of Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the dock of the

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:43 pm
by cybot
Ivor wrote:A link to a Wall Street Journal article on the song and Otis Redding's inspiration. I hadn't realised it was such a sad story.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 25300.html

Nice one Ivor....

Re: The story of Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the dock of the

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:46 pm
by jaybee
Steve Cropper tells much the same story in recent "session" with Ronnie Wood on SKyArts, seems like an awesome guy (in the grammatically correct sense of the word!!)