Home / Music / Jim Stewart and Steve Cropper produced Otis Blue for StaxMusic linernotes album music otis-reddingJim Stewart and Steve Cropper produced Otis Blue for StaxStax president Jim Stewart and the label’s guitarist Steve Cropper produced Otis Blue. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesHow Otis Redding’s ‘King & Queen’ Pushed the Rolling Stones Toward Choirs and French HornsHow Otis Redding Turned Stones' 'Satisfaction' Into a Soul Anthem in 1965Otis Blue is one of the definitive soul albums of the 1960sOtis Redding recorded Otis Blue in under 24 hoursThree of the eleven songs on Otis Blue are Sam Cooke covers — a tribute to a friend killed months earlier.ExploreBoards of Canada produced Tomorrow's Harvest themselvesToo Fast for Love got two very different productionsToto self-produced Toto IVBoi-1da contributed to Chris Brown's IndigoAlex Turner took the lead production role on Tranquility Base Hotel & CasinoPrevious Lreplace is dense Merzbow noise — all distortion and feedbackNext Impulse! Records — a home for jazz and experimental music — released Pauline Oliveros' Dreamweave.