That, and Otis Redding had no connection to Motown - the city or the record label.  This is my favorite version, but to each his/her own, of course.

I still prefer The Black Crowes to Pigpen.....

The Grateful Dead's Rod McKernan did this song better than anyone else ever did.

oh relax you swede dude. this is where music came from. motown boy. get the chip of your shoulder. i apologize for your actions. please excust this boys comment. its racial and offensive.  peace.

Wow, way to misinterpret what someone else wrote.  I believe "swede dude" was referring to the BLACK CROWS, as most of the other folks on this forum were.  GEESH, who needs to relax? 

oh relax you swede dude. this is where music came from. motown boy. get the chip of your shoulder. i apologize for your actions. please excust this boys comment. its racial and offensive.  peace.

I used to love playing this as a dj way back in the day. Loved it then - love it now. Timeless. 10

The Black Crowes' version is just a rip off of the Grateful Dead version, which rocked the song up a bit.  If you like their version better, credit the Dead, not the 'Crowes.

Me, I like this version, mostly because the Black Crowes ruined it for me, before I every knew they ripped it off.

I came on to complain about this "cover" only to see the artist name and realize it must be the original. Reading through the comments, I realize I'm in the extreme minority here, but this is awful. The Black Crowes version is superior in every way, sorry.

Another great cover was on the soundtrack of the film The Commitments - real oomf and zip. The original is great as well, of course :)

oh relax you swede dude. this is where music came from. motown boy. get the chip of your shoulder. i apologize for your actions. please excust this boys comment. its racial and offensive.  peace.

There's a bunch of good covers of this tune, sure. But to dis' the original is pretty shy of cool, IMHO. Otis. Man that guy had Soul!

For the best cover, check out Aug 6, '71, Hollywood Palladium:

http://deadlistening.blogspot.com/2008/07/1971-august-6-hollywood-palladium.html

I'm talkin' Rippin', one of the best Garcia solos eva. The entire band just Jumps on it, right from the first bar.

Who sings the other well known version of this song?  Thanks!

Gov't Mule does a fantastic cover of this song.  Not as good as Otis's but still really good.

Just getting ready to comment that the black crowes does it best!

Ok,,this is IT !      do not talk bout flying black shit or anything,,you hear !

They have energy, but Otis has subtlety and authenticity.  I like the Crowes, but they're just poseurs when it comes to covering this.

Brian wasn't alone in this sentiment. That's why Otis allways closed the Stax review.

Every artist in the City asked to open for Otis. The first night it was the Grateful Dead. Janis Joplin came at three in the afternoon the day of the first show to make sure she'd be in front of him. To this day, no musician ever got everybody out to see them the way he did. Every musician then into music came. He was THE MAN. THE REAL MAN. If you liked R&B or white rock and roll or black rock and roll or jazz, you came to see Otis.
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On stage the man never stopped moving. He would do a number and at the end of the number, he would strut the stage. "Yeah, Whew! Hey! Oh! Yeah! Party! Oh! Yeah! Whew! One two ..." and right into the next number. Three, four songs into the set on the first night, I was standing on the side of the stage. I couldn't believe how great he was.

He started doing his strut, back and forth. "Yeah! Oh! Damn! Whew!" As he was doing this, there was this woman leaning against the front of the stage. A gorgeous young black lady in a low-cut dress. She started sighing like she just could not hold on. "O-tis, Oh! Ah! Ah! Oooh!" He saw her. He was going back and forth and he said, "Yeah!" He had the microphone in his hand and he saw her and she said, "Unnh!" He walked across the stage, leaned down, took the mike, and pulled a move that has never been equaled.

He leaned down and looked at her, and he was a big, good-looking guy, and she was going "Oh! Oh!" and he said right into her face, "I'm gonna s-s-sock it to you, baby. One, two...." And the whole place went "Hah!" all together.

I came on to complain about this "cover" only to see the artist name and realize it must be the original. Reading through the comments, I realize I'm in the extreme minority here, but this is awful. The Black Crowes version is superior in every way, sorry.

I came on to complain about this "cover" only to see the artist name and realize it must be the original. Reading through the comments, I realize I'm in the extreme minority here, but this is awful. The Black Crowes version is superior in every way, sorry.

kids today. sad...

I came on to complain about this "cover" only to see the artist name and realize it must be the original. Reading through the comments, I realize I'm in the extreme minority here, but this is awful. The Black Crowes version is superior in every way, sorry.