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Sweet Inspiration: The Songs of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham

60s 70s ace's continuallygrowing 'songwriter series' goes south of the masondixon line with a longoverdue 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 halloffame classics 'sweet inspiration' gathers up two dozen of their finest cocreations 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 timeframe