He spent some time in California toward the end of the summer of 1967. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. The plan called for Otis to drive Johnny to Memphis from Macon, and then hopefully to find a chance to sing after Johnny had finished his work there.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Otis Redding Subtitle An Unfinished Life Author Jonathan Gould And Phil and a colorful character named Joe Galkin engineered an opportunity for Johnny Jenkins and Otis Redding to record at Stax Records in Memphis. They were managed by the young white college boy in Macon who eventually went on to manage Otis as well - but at that time, the whole focus of Phil Walden, his future manager, was on Johnny Jenkins. He was a singer in a band that was led by a very flamboyant guitarist named Johnny Jenkins. This is the Hollywood aspect of Otis' story. How did Redding walk into the door of Stax Records in Memphis? I think that that sort of summed up the response of the whole crowd there, which had never really seen anything onstage quite like this. Jonathan Gould: Bob Weir, of course, was the rhythm guitarist in the Grateful Dead, and his comment about Otis was that he was pretty sure that he had seen God onstage. Scott Simon: You open your book with the most stunning quote from Bob Weir, who had seen Otis Redding at Monterey. Music News Capricorn In Retrograde: Macon's Endangered Musical History
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