Rock Archeologia

Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham - Moments From This Theatre (1999) 

Artist: Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham
Title: Moments From This Theatre
Label: Proper Records Ltd.
Catalog#: PRPCD 009
Format: CD, Album, Live Recording
Country: Europe
Released: September 14, 1999
Genre: Funk / Soul
Format: FLAC (track+.cue)
Bitrate: lossless
Duration: 00:55:16

• After starting out in Muscle Shoals Alabama and then moving on to Memphis to work with Chips Moman at American Studios, Dan Penn proceeded to co-write and produce several '60s soul hits for artists like Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, James Carr, and blue-eyed soul band the Box Tops. Some of the classics Penn and Memphis/Muscle Shoals' studio veteran Spooner Oldham wrote include "Cry Like a Baby," "Sweet Inspiration," "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man," "The Dark End of the Street," and "I'm Your Puppet." These and several other of their tunes are featured on Moments From This Theatre, a collection of live duets taken from 1998 dates in Dublin, London, and South Petherton, Somerset. With Oldham laying down a tasty soul base on the Wurlitzer piano and Penn strumming easeful guitar chords and singing in his sweetly powerful way, the duo glide through 14 gospel-inflected, country-soul gems, eloquently touching on southern living, loneliness, and the joys and trials of love. There's also a good dose of humor here in songs like "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers" and "Memphis Women and Chicken." An intimate and inspiring recording by two of the unsung giants of southern soul. - Stephen Cook

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 • Tracklist:

01. I'm Your Puppet 04:14
02. Sweet Inspiration 03:46
03. Cry Like a Baby 02:58
04. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man 04:47
05. I Met Her in Church 02:55
06. Lonely Women Make Good Lovers 03:38
07. It Tears Me Up 03:58
08. The Dark End of the Street 03:50
09. You Left the Water Running 03:23
10. Out of Left Field 04:27
11. Memphis Women and Chicken 04:05
12. A Woman Left Lonely 04:05
13. I'm Living Good 05:17
14. Ol' Folks 03:46

 

Credits:
Neil Brockbank, Bobby Irwin - Producer
Eric Hine - Mastering
Keith McDonnell - Assistant Engineer
Rick Hall, Chips Moman, Gary Nicholson - Composer
Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn - Composer, Vocals
Jody Roberts - Mixing Assistant
Chris Musto - Design
Alan Robinson - Liner Notes

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