''Live in Europe'' is a
live album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
from
soul singer
Otis Redding. It was Redding's first live album as well as the only live album released during his lifetime, issued exactly five months before his death on December 10, 1967. The album was recorded during the
Stax/Volt tour of Europe and Redding is backed by
Booker T. & the MG's. Recorded at the Olympia Theatre, Paris; March 21, 1967.
The album is currently available on
compact disc, digitally remastered by Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch as part of the
Atlantic &
Atco Remasters Series done on
Rhino Records. Alternately, seven of its ten tracks appear as bonus tracks to the 2008 reissue of ''
Otis Blue'' or the 2016 reissue of ''
The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
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'', also on Rhino.
Critical reception and legacy
In a 1969 piece called "A Short and Happy History of Rock", published by ''
Stereo Review'',
Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and ...
selected ''Live in Europe'' as a representative Redding LP in his basic rock "library" of 25 albums. He went on to write of Redding and the album in the context of rock history:
However, Christgau's later appraisals of the album have ranged from it "captur
nga sensitive soul man at his toughest and most outgoing" to it being "among
edding'sworst" due to "too many concessions to an English audience that wanted fast rock and roll songs".
In 2003, ''Live in Europe'' was ranked number 474 on ''
Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of
the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Track listing
Charts
Album
Singles
References
External links
Otis Redding- Stax Records
Otis Redding albums
1967 live albums
Atco Records live albums
Stax Records live albums
Albums produced by Jim Stewart (record producer)
Albums produced by Tom Dowd
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