Home Dock

I'm an incurable comparer of people, so.
I'm not sure if I like him better than Chuck Berry, although he reminds me more of Buddy Holly, which is okay. I also like his version of "Respect" better; it's just calmer when he does it. I guess that "Sitting on the dock by the bay" doesn't have the same fame of Berry's "Roll over Beethoven" or "Rock and Roll Music", but not everything has to have that party flavor, that flare for the dramatics and rock-hard-or-go-home thing. Maybe James Taylor would like him better. Like "Country Road"-- "I guess my feet know where they want me to go"; "Walking Man"-- "A hypothetical destination.... any other man stops and talks, but the walking man walks"-- mellow like Otis, "Sitting on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away.... sitting here resting my bones, two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home".
So that's kinda special.

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I originally called this 'slow rock', but then I started actually trying to tag my music and organize it, so that made me kinda want to be more precise, instead of using rock as a synonym for popular music, which I admit is tempting to do. (And for my second title, I really had to reach for something random, haha.

Also, for a minute there, I had to figure out why I compared him to Buddy Holly, and then I realized that it was a biographical thing.

Anyway.

I really have no idea what I'm talking about especially when it comes to black musicians, (although practically nobody seems to write music reviews here, so you're stuck with me), but the point is that with old Otis here, you can tune in to something different, and that something different is also something that is definitely laid back.

(8/10)