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When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941-1967) had already become the conscience of a new kind of music. Sure, Berry Gordy might have built the first black-owned music empire at Motown, but Redding was doing something as historic: mainstreaming black music within the whitest bastions of the post-Confederate south. As a result, the Redding story still largely untold is one of great conquest but, sadly, grand tragedy. Now, in this transformative work, Mark Ribowsky contextualizes Redding's life within the larger cultural movements of his era, whisking us from the sinful clubs of Macon to the trendsetting studios in Memphis and, finally, to the pulsating stage of the Monterey Music Festival where, in a single set, Redding immortalized himself as soul legend. What emerges in Dreams To Remember is not only a triumph of music history but also a reclamation of a visionary who would come to define an entire era.

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Evokes the fire of Redding...Ribowsky tells the story with nonstop energy, while always probing for the larger social and musical pictures...[His] insightfulness and storytelling gift trump all. Helped by revealing quotations from musicians, he recalls a time of interactive music-making that seems worlds removed from today's computer-assembled, auto-tuned pop. -- New York Times Book Review Excellent from start to finish, demanding a soundtrack of Stax hits as background listening. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Ribowsky has labored hard to get at [Redding's] emotional center...[He] goes into the seamy side of the record business but also the sheer beauty and magic of the sixties soul music that Redding epitomized. -- Booklist Subtly passionate...What Mark Ribowsky has done here is to describe someone who was, not divine, but as godlike as a human can be. -- Wall Street Journal

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Mark Ribowsky is an author of many books, including Howard Cosell and the New York Times Notable Book Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball, as well as The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal and Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Troubled Lives and Enduring Soul of the Temptations. Dan John Miller is an American actor and musician. In the Oscar-winning Walk the Line, he starred as Johnny Cash's guitarist and best friend, Luther Perkins, and has also appeared in George Clooney's Leatherheads and My One and Only, with Renee Zellweger. An award-winning audiobook narrator, he has garnered multiple Audie Award nominations, has twice been named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine, and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from Publishers Weekly.

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