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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]