Redding soon started playing with local bands and came to the attention of Atlantic Records, who signed Otis and sent him to record at the legendary Stax studios in Memphis, recording, among ...

"Defying the notion that Black artists needed to be 'made marketable,' the Memphis-based label went ... the label itself has gone." Related: Otis Redding III, Guitarist and Son of Otis Redding ...

One of the best ways to honor Black History Month is by taking a road trip to Memphis, Tennessee ... Artists like Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, and Booker T. & the M.G.’s made Stax Records their ...