#178 Otis Redding, 'Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul' (1965)

Similar to his last entry, ‘Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul' (#448), Otis Redding’s third album, is made up mostly of covers, and once again he was backed by Booker T. & the M.G.’s (Booker T. Jones, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Steve Cropper & Al Jackson Jr.), as well as Isaac Hayes on the keys. But like that other album, Redding completely made these songs his own, so much so that at the time, that a journalist had accused the Rolling Stones of stealing ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ from Redding.