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Pot Luck
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  • First vinyl reissue
  • First official CD reissue
  • New notes by Andria Lisle interviewing Spooner Oldham
  • Expanded gatefold edition housed in deluxe Stoughton “Tip-On” gatefold jacket

Description

Legendary ivory-tickler Spooner Oldham is synonymous with the Muscle Shoals sound. The southern soul pioneer famously backed the likes of Etta James, Jimmy Hughes, Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, Aretha Franklin, and many more, but his lone solo album, Pot Luck, finds Spooner in a rare role: front and center.

Legendary ivory-tickler Spooner Oldham is synonymous with the Muscle Shoals sound. The southern soul pioneer famously backed the likes of Etta James, Jimmy Hughes, Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, Aretha Franklin, and many more, but his lone solo album, Pot Luck, finds Spooner in a rare role: front and center.

Oldham moved west in the late ‘60s when the patronage of bands like The Stones and The Flying Burrito Brothers made southern soul the in-demand sound. He joined the house band at Hollywood’s Producer’s Workshop and was soon playing for The Lettermen and Liberace. While recording the latter, it was suggested that Oldham make his own album. “I don’t really think I wanted it so much,” Oldham says now. “I think it was shoved on me. We’d got all this stuff set up, and now what do we do?"

Pot Luck is very much a record of...

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Artist Bio

The Alabama-born musician and songwriter is part of the prolific crew that made records at Rick Hall’s FAME Studio and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, in the northwest corner of the state. Oldham played keyboards on such seminal soul songs as “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge, “Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett, “You Better Move On” by Arthur Alexander and “I Never Loved a Man (The Way That I Love You)” Aretha Franklin’s historic first recording for Atlantic Records. He was a co-founder of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.

As a songwriter, Spooner Oldham teamed with Dan Penn to write such hits as “Cry Like a Baby” (The Box Tops), “I’m Your Puppet” (James and Bobby Purify), “Wish You Didn’t Have to Go” King Kurtis, “A Woman Left Lonely” (Janis Joplin) and “It Tears Me Up” (Percy Sledge)....

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 The Lord Loves A Rolling Stone
  • 2 1980 (Keep On Smiling)
  • 3 Life's Package Of Puzzles
  • 4 Julie Brown's Forest
  • 5 Easy Listening
  • 6 When A Man Loves A Woman (The Way That I Love You)
  • 7 I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)
  • 8 Kentucky Grass
  • 9 Cry Like A Baby
  • 10 Respect
  • 11 The New World
  • 12 My Friend
  • 13 Will The Circle Be Unbroken