Sweet Inspiration: Songs Of Dan Penn & Spooner Sweet Inspiration: Songs Of Dan Penn & Spooner CD

2011 collection, 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. 24 tracks. Ace Records.

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