Beyond his soothing romantic ballads, legendary soul singer Otis Redding indulged his playful side. His famously raspy voice proves incredibly pliant, whether he's slowing and roughening the old-school R&B standard “The Huckle-Buck” or injecting Sam Cooke's “Chain Gang” with newfound snappiness. Redding even spins an innocuous nursery rhyme into scratchy soul gold on “Mary's Little Lamb”.