I’m not sure how the soup would stay in the bowl, but my knowledge of centrifugal force is spotty at best, and I’ll do anything Otis tells me to do…

This marks the second time in this rag’s history that I’ve posted an Otis Redding clip culled from The YouTube, but there just ain’t enough Otis Love on the world wide webosphere. We’re rectifyin’ as he’s testfyin’ (jeez, that was fucking lame). Otis could heal the sick with his dynamic brand of southern soul, and for all the “great” singers and performers out there on today’s music scenes, nobody can touch this legend. Nobody. So instead of thinking of this video as “a look back,” instead think of it as “a look back at the greatest.” Here’s a dynamite version of Shake that double dog dares the human body to sit still for 10 seconds:

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Slade Sohmer

In 2006 Slade Sohmer founded Hidden Track along with current EiC Scott Bernstein. Slade ran the site until 2008, establishing a scope of coverage and level of professionalism that still exists today. In 2010 Sohmer founded HyperVocal with Lee Brenner and the "purveyors of the vital and viral" have gone on to create a network of highly acclaimed sites that includes Headlines That Suck, Weeping Elvis, Distriction and Spike The Water Cooler.

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