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CD/DVD Review: Otis Redding, “The Best: See & Hear”
I have to admit to being a little bit torn about this one. Our friends at Shout Factory generally do a great job in bringing us the best of pop culture, music, television, and
Read More »Basement Songs: Otis Redding, “Try a Little Tenderness”
It's time for another edition of Basement Songs -- and this week, Scott Malchus has John Hughes on his mind
Read More »How Bad Can It Be?: Fightstarters
The point of a column like this is not to be a consumer guide, or to give “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” to the latest media product (which is just as well since Ebert owns the
Read More »CD Review: The Revelations featuring Tre Williams, “Deep Soul”
I love soul music in each and every one of its glorious permutations, so it’s been gratifying for me to listen as a new generation of soul masters has taken the spotlight in the
Read More »Basement Songs: “Cigarettes and Coffee” by Otis Redding
The first full-length screenplay I wrote was a semi-autobiographical account of an out of control party I threw in the summer of 1987. My script was an attempt to capture a time and place,
Read More »The Popdose Guide to Otis Redding, Part One
[Note: I put out a call for guest Idiots a few weeks ago, and was quite pleased to get a response from one of my favorite bloggers (his comment about my “AOR leanings” notwithstanding
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