The Immortal Otis Redding

The Immortal Otis Redding is a posthumous studio album by the American soul recording artist Otis Redding, released on June 15, 1968, by Atco Records. It compiles 11 songs recorded by Redding in a three-week stretch of sessions that concluded days prior to his death in December 1967.

Redding his favorite album by Redding and "probably among my five most-played LPs", because it "showcases the unduplicated warmth, tenderness, and humor of his ballad singing".The following year, it was voted the 33rd best album ever in Paul Gambaccini's poll of prominent rock critics, published in his book Rock Critics' Choice: The Top 200 Albums. Christgau ranked it third in a list accompanying the book. The album was included in "A Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960 s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).