Skip to content

Otis Redding

Follow Otis Redding’s documented musical places, beginning with the Sausalito inspiration setting and the Memphis recording site behind The Dock of the Bay.

The music in real places

The Dock of the Bay: a bay-side idea becomes a Memphis record

Follow the song’s bay-side beginnings in Sausalito, its collaboration and recording in Memphis, and the distinction between the original Stax studio and its museum site.

Sausalito (bay-side inspiration setting) · Stax’s McLemore Avenue recording site

Privacy