Shut your eyes and listen to the loneliness in the lyrics. “Sittin’ here restin’ my bones And this loneliness won’t leave me alone…” The song again hit the charts, peaking at Number 13, when the infamous outlaws of country music, Willie and Waylon, recorded the song in 1982. The song was released Januand hit Number One in March of that same year, becoming the first posthumous single to hit the top spot on Billboard‘s Hot 100. On the morning of December 10th, Redding, 26 and one of the greatest soul singers of the ’60s, plummeted to his death when the twin-engine plane he was in crashed into Lake Monona, only three minutes away from his final destination of Madison, Wisconsin. We are located on the Island of Coco Plum, near the City of Marathon, and are tucked away near marinas so you will have plenty to do while sitting at the dock or our undercover patio area or our back patio veranda. Redding and his band were flying to Nashville for the first of three scheduled shows that fateful day in December. The author and original singer of the song, Otis Redding, recorded the hit three days before he died an untimely death.
The California sunlight sprinkling diamonds on the calm water of the bay, the seagulls circling overhead in an azure sky, the old fishermen hauling in their nets near the docks. Otis Redding had never seen anything so peaceful.
This haunting cover of “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” sang by two of the biggest stars in country music, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, comes by its wistful sound naturally. Otis Redding’s (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.
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