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Dreams to Remember: The Legacy of Otis Redding
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Please Call Home: Big House Documentary This is a story about home - a story about family and brotherhood. Between 1970 and 1972 a band of brothers used an old southern home as their base of operations. This home was called The Big House. In the midst of a magical era of musical, political, and cultural change The Big House became a sanctuary in which a unique strain of music grew and a mystical bond was established. For just a little while it’s time to leave the chaos of the world around us, to remember the music that ignored barriers, to recapture the good energy, and to celebrate brotherhood. It’s time to remember those years. It’s time to go home to the place The Allman Brothers band called The Big House. learn more |
Otis Redding is captured on camera performing in a variety of locations across the globe on DREAMS TO REMEMBER. Sixteen musical performances of songs such as “Pain in my Heart” and “Try a Little Tenderness” are included, and so is the very last appearance Otis made on television, which was shot the day before his tragic death. Also featured are interviews and testimoni- als from people who knew the late soul singer, including Otis’s wife and daughter. DREAMS TO REMEMBER is a fi ne testament to this wonderfully talented musician, and has been compiled to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Otis’s death.
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