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Posts Tagged Wilson Pickett

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April 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Moments From (Their) Sweet Inspiration: Listening and Listening Again to Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham

Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham have wonderful careers as journeymen musicians, supporting some of the biggest names in soul music. Penn has performed as a guitarist and singer in his own right – owner also of a wonderful white soul voice. But he’s best known for his producing and songwriting abilities. He, erm, penned a […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Woman Left Lonely, Aretha Franklin, Art Freeman, Charlie Rich, Dan Penn, Dark End of The Street, Dionne Warwick, Do Right Woman, Funk, I'm Your Puppet, James Carr, Listening and Listening Again to Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Moment From This Theatre, Moments From (Their) Sweet Inspiration, Moments From (Their) Sweet Inspiration: Listening and Listening Again to Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Mustang Sally, Neil Young, Penn/Oldham, Percy Sledge, Pop, Soul, Spooner Oldham, Sweet Inspiration: The Songs of Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, When A Man Loves A Woman, Wilson Pickett ·

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August 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Best Guitarist in The World: # 7 – Duane Allman

When I was about 14 – and at the peak of my guitar-loving “discovery” years, a devotee of Guitar Player magazine, as open to (and obsessed with) Sonic Youth and The Velvet Underground as Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson – I remember watching a History of Rock doc which had a featurette around rock’n’roll guitar […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Aretha Franklin, At Fillmore, At Fillmore East, Best Guitarist, Boz Scaggs, Derek and The Dominos, Dickey Betts, Duane Allman, Eat A Peach, Eric Clapton, Facebook, Gregg Allman, Guitar, Hey Jude, Layla, Phantom Billstickers, Sessions, Skydog, Statesboro Blues, The Allman Brothers, The Allman Brothers Band, The Best Guitarist In The World, The Best Guitarist in The World # 7, The Best Guitarist in The World: # 7 – Duane Allman, Whipping Post, Wilson Pickett ·

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June 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Muscle Shoals: DVD

Muscle Shoals Director: Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier Dogwoof/Madman The story of Muscle Shoals is a story about how a town with a population of around 13,000 had a hand in creating some of the finest music in the world. It’s a story about the white rhythm section that everyone thought was black. It’s a story about […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Aretha Franklin, Blog On The Tracks, Bono, Documentary, DVD Review, FAME Studios, Film Review, Funk, Greg 'Freddy' Camalier, Movie, Muscle Shoals, Muscle Shoals Sound, Music Doco, Percy Sledge, R'n'B, Rick Hall, Soul, There's Wally!, Wilson Pickett ·

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October 26, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1790

Wilson Pickett, The Exciting Wilson Pickett (1966) This is Wilson Pickett’s second album and actually it’s the only one I own by him. I used to have a pretty decent/comprehensive CD compilation but I’m not sure where that’s even go to now; I think I loaned it to someone and it never made it back. […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged "Duck" Dunn, 634-5789, Al Jackson, In The Midnight Hour, Isaac Hayes, Land of 1000 Dances, Steve Cropper, The Exciting Wilson Pickett, Vinyl, Wilson Pickett ·

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