Product Description
The songrwiting skills of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham have already been celebrated in fine style on Ace's award-winning Sweet Inspiration compilation a highlight of the Songwriter Series , and still available on CDCHD 1284. Spooner was not Dan's sole collaborator during his most prolific years as a songwriter. The follow up to Sweet Inspiration shines its spotlight on great songs that Dan has written with other notable writers, plus one or two he wrote on his own. A Road Leading Home covers almost 50 years of Dan s songwriting, from his first ever hit, Is A Blue Bird Blue (written when Dan was 14) to What's Wrong With Right , a 21st century Penn copyright essayed by the Hacienda Brothers. The CD features a number of Dan's best known songs, including such Penn perennials as Rainbow Road , Do Right Woman - Do Right Man and the immortal Dark End Of The Street . As with every entry in the songwriter series, A Road Leading Home also features some lesser known (but no less good) recordings of songs from Dan s golden era, several of which appear here on CD for the first time. Beautifully mastered and with a now de rigueur booklet crammed full of rare label shots and illustrations, this is sure to appear to everyone who has purchased any of Ace's Dan Penn or Fame-related projects.

Track Listing
1. Without A Woman - Ted Taylor
2. You Left The Water Running - Billy Young
3. I Tried To Tell You - The Entertainers
4. Break Up The Party - Linda Gail Lewis
5. Is A Blue Bird Blue - Dan Penn
6. Once More With Feeling - Jeanie Fortune
7. The Dark End Of The Street - Roy Hamilton
8. (Almost Persuaded To) Give Him One More Try - Linda Carr
9. Come On - Tommy Roe
10. Oh! What A Fool I've Been - The Sweet Inspirations
11. Far From The Maddening Crowd - The Drifters
12. Up Tight Good Man - Laura Lee
13. So Many Reasons - James & Bobby Purify
14. Do Right Woman - Do Right Man - Brenda Lee
15. Cheater Man - Esther Phillips
16. Long Ago - Bobby Patterson
17. I Can't Stop (No. No No) - The Blues Busters
18. Rainbow Road - Percy Sledge
19. Zero Willpower # 2 - Irma Thomas
20. Tearjoint - Ted Roddy And The Tearjoint Troubadors
21. What's Wrong With Right - The Hacienda Brothers
22. Better To Have It - Bobby Purify (Ben Moore)
23. I Hate You - Ronnie Milsap
24. Like A Road Leading Home - Albert King

UK - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00COMKKW0/?tag=imwan-21

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Highly recommended!