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I've always liked this song. Otis Redding's original take on it is close to perfection. Even with that in mind, I'm open to new interpretations. I think Timberlake and the band have put a good one together here. I mean, with Steve Cropper involved, it has to be good. He wouldn't be involved in something that diminished the music, especially something on which he was a co-writer.
While I'm not a big fan of the second part of the vocal performance, the song has redeeming qualities that still weigh it back out the other way. I think JT oversings a little toward the end, and maybe I'm hearing it wrong, but it sounds like he's a little off key at points. You can even kind of see Cropper's expression change when Timberlake goes to his falsetto. Regardless, the groove the band falls into coupled with the horn rewrites from the original make the song fresh but still true to the original.
Redding began writing the song while spending time on a houseboat. He brought the lyrics he'd scratched out to Cropper, and the two finished the song together. Shortly after it was recorded, Redding and his band mates, as well as a pilot, were killed in a plane crash. "Dock of the Bay" would soon become the first posthumous single to take the top spot on Billboard.
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