Product Description
Our continually-growing `songwriter series' goes south of the Mason-Dixon line with a long-overdue salute to two gentlemen whose names are synonymous with Southern Soul - but whose work, as this collection reveals, also extends into the realms of country, pop and Southern Rock.

Many great writers emerged out of the Muscle Shoals music scene of the 1960s but few of them made quite the impact on popular music of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham. Prolific together and apart, the two men are responsible for innumerable Hall-Of-Fame classics.

"Sweet Inspiration" gathers up two dozen of their finest co-creations and demonstrates that they are fully deserving of the kind of accolades that they have always received from soul fans and that, in recent years, they have been afforded by a much broader spectrum of music lovers and music writers.

It's astonishing to think that most of these songs were written on a period of not much more than two years, and that both men were also collaborating with other Shoals writers during the same time-frame.

A future follow-up volume will showcase Dan's collaborations with others. For now, though, we invite you to enjoy the songs of Penn and Oldham as rendered by names as famous as Charlie Rich, Percy Sledge and Etta James and as obscure as Art Freeman and Jeanne Newman.

1. Out Of Left Field - Percy Sledge
2. I'm Your Puppet - Dionne Warwick
3. Sweet Inspiration - The Sweet Inspirations
4. A Woman Left Lonely - Charlie Rich
5. I Worship The Ground You Walk On - Etta James
6. I'm Living Good [Version 2] - The Ovations
7. Take Me (Just As I Am) - Solomon Burke
8. Cry Like A Baby - Arthur Alexander
9. It Tears Me Up - Jeanne Newman
10. Slippin' Around - Art Freeman
11. I Met Her In Church - Tony Borders
12. Are You Never Coming Home - Sandy Posey
13. Let It Happen [Alternate Take] - James Carr
14. Everything I Am - The Box Tops
15. Feed The Flame - Ted Taylor
16. Watching The Trains Go By - Tony Joe White
17. In The Same Old Way - Arthur Conley
18. Denver - Ronnie Milsap
19. Dreamer - Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles
20. Good Things Don't Come Easy - Irma Thomas
21. I Need Someone - The Wallace Brothers
22. He Ain't Gonna Do Right - Barbara Lynn
23. Wish You Didn't Have To Go - Tommy Roe
24. Let's Do It Over - Joe Simon

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