Reception
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Pain in My Heart received positive critical reception. Bruce Eder of Allmusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, reckoning that the album "was practically a road map to Mick Jagger and any number of other would-be white soul shouters in the UK", and found elements of hard rock in "Hey Hey Baby". Furthermore, he praised the Cooke song "You Send Me", and thought it "is the least stylized of any of his renditions of Cooke's songs". However, he criticized his restraint as opposed to future recordings, and the "somewhat less than memorable" writing, except on "Security", "These Arms Of Mine" and "That's What My Heart Needs". Overall he concluded his review by saying "Redding exudes astonishing power, energy and boldness".
According to the Rolling Stone review of several albums by Redding, "he title track on set the pattern for all his ballads to come—Otis triumphed at rendering agony. Signs of the singer's virtuosity are already apparent in the almost teasing way he lingers over some lyrics and spits out others; virtually never would he sing a line the same way twice", and gave the album 4 out of 5 stars.
When Redding performed the song "These Arms of Mine" during a session, featuring Jenkins on guitar and Steve Cropper on piano, producer Jim Stewart praised his performance and noted, "Everybody was fixin' to go home, but Joe Galkin insisted we give Otis a listen. There was something different about . He really poured his soul into it."
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