VIA: CNN.com Otis Redding was proud to be a country boy. “You know what, Otis? You’re country,” lashes Carla Thomas in her 1967 duet with Redding, “Tramp.” “That’s all right,” Redding quickly responds. “You’re straight from the Georgia woods.” “That’s good,” Redding says. He meant it. He was born in Dawson, in southwest Georgia, and […]
