I'm Sick Y'all

Finally finding my way back to health. I don't exactly know what I've been sick with, but it has required lots of sleep and I've had virtually no energy for a couple days. Otis Redding, in his classic style, wrote this song to be a kind of meta-fabric of previous songs: it's a blend of Try a Little Tenderness (the "got to, got to, got to" part) and Pain in My Heart (the "pain in my heart" part). I don't really know where this was recorded, but it has the feel of an off the cuff live performance. It arrives here courtesty of disc two of the sublime Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding anthology. This is Otis, y'all, and he kills it. A must listen.

Otis Redding - I'm Sick Y'all


I'm sure I missed some more meta-references. If you hear one or eight, comment it.