Various Artists - Sweet Inspiration - The Songs Of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham(2011)(FLAC)

SWEET INSPIRATION” DOES A BANG-UP JOB OF ASSEMBLING THE KEY SONGS DAN AND SPOONER
WROTE TOGETHER DURING THE 1960S AND EARLY 1970S A QUICK LOOK AT THE TRACK LISTING
WILL SHOW PROSPECTIVE BUYERS THAT THE COMPILERS HAVE TRIED HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT
THERE’S A VERSION OF EVERY MAJOR PENN AND OLDHAM COMPOSITION INCLUDED.THEY HAVEN’T
ALWAYS CHOSEN THE OBVIOUS VERSIONS,SO THERE WILL BE SOME NICE SURPRISES HERE FOR
EVEN THE MOST AVID COLLECTORS.IT WAS DIFFICULT TO BRING WHAT STARTED OUT AS A
MASSIVE WISH LIST DOWN TO JUST 24 SELECTIONS,BUT KENT THINK THEIR CHOICES DO JUSTICE
TO THE PERFORMERS OF THE SONGS AND,MOST IMPORTANTLY,THE WRITERS.
EVERYONE WILL HAVE THEIR OWN HIGHLIGHTS.MINE WOULD INCLUDE ARTHUR CONLEY’S FAME
RECORDING OF ‘IN THE SAME OLD WAY’(WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN AS A STRAIGHT AHEAD
COUNTRY SONG) AND COUNTRY THRUSH JEANNE NEWMAN’S RIVETING,PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED
GOLDWAX RECORDING OF ‘IT TEARS ME UP’,ONE OF THE EARLIEST SONGS PENN AND OLDHAM
WROTE TOGETHER.I’M ALSO VERY PARTIAL TO THE SOUTHERN SINCERITY OF THE BOX TOPS’
‘EVERYTHING I AM’(A UK TOP 3 HIT FOR PLASTIC PENNY IN LATE 1967)AND TOMMY ROE’S
LITTLE-KNOWN 1966 TAKE ON ‘WISH YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO GO’,A NUMBER MADE MORE FAMOUS
A YEAR LATER BY JAMES AND BOBBY PURIFY.BUT GREATNESS ABOUNDS FROM BEGINNING TO END
OF THIS SET,AND IT’S UNLIKELY THAT ANY PROSPECTIVE PURCHASER WILL NOT BE TOTALLY
IMPRESSED BY EVERYTHING IT CONTAINS.
A COMPANION VOLUME – WHICH WILL ALSO INCLUDE SONGS CO-WRITTEN BY DAN AND/OR SPOONER
WITH COLLABORATORS SUCH AS DONNIE FRITTS,RICK HALL,MARLIN GREENE AND CHIPS MOMAN FOLLOWS
ON FROM THIS ONE.IN THE MEANTIME,HERE’S OVER AN HOUR OF THE SWEETLY INSPIRED SONGWRITING
OF WALLACE DANIEL PENNINGTON AND LINDON DEWEY OLDHAM.OH, WHAT A POWER!

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