SPOONER OLDHAM POT LUCK (1972) SEALED, MINT

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Jun 6, 2009 Sold Date

May 30, 2009 Start Date

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SPOONER OLDHAM ~POT LUCK (1972) SEALED, MINT

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SPOONER OLDHAM ~

POT LUCK (1972)

SEALED, MINT

12" LP on FAMILY PRODUCTIONS FPS-2703 (STEREO) in SEALED, MINT condition.

Cover has light ring wear.

Richard Bennett - guitar
Emory Gordy Jr. - bass
Dewey Lyndon "Spooner" Oldham - vocals, keyboards
Dennis St. John - drums, percussion

SIDE 1
1.) The Lord Loves a Rolling Stone   (Spooner Oldham - Dan Penn) -
2.) 1980   (Spooner Oldham - Dan Penn) -
3.) Life's Little Package of Puzzles   (Spooner Oldham) -
4.) Julie Brown's Forest   (Spooner Oldham) -
5.) Easy Listening   (Spooner Oldham - Freddy Weller) -

SIDE 2
1.) Profile Medley:
i.) When a Man Loves a Woman (instrumental)   (B. Eldridge - G. Stewart) -
ii.) I Never Loved a Man (instrumental)   (R. Shannon) -
iii.) Kentucky Grass (instrumental)   (Spooner Oldham - Emory Gordy Jr.) -
iv.) Cry Like a Baby (instrumental)   (Spooner Oldham - Dan Penn) -
v.) Respect (instrumental)   (Otis Redding)
vi.) The New World (instrumental)   (arranged by Spooner Oldham - Emory Gordy Jr.) -
vii.) My Friend (instrumental) (Spooner Oldham - Donnie Fritts) -
2.) Will the Circle Be Unbroken   (traditional - arranged by Spooner Oldham) -

    Spooner Oldham's best known for his work as a writer - much of it with Dan Penn. Lesser known is his work as a studio musician and the fact that he's recorded a handful of intriguing solos studio efforts.

Oldham started his professional musical career in the mid 1960s while attending the University of North Alabama. Already a gifted keyboard player, he started playing sessions at Rick Hall's Muscle Shoals Fame Studios. Within a matter of months Oldham had dropped out of college and become Fame's in-house keyboard player. In 1967 Oldham went to work for Chips Moman's Memphis-based American Studios where he started his long-standing collaboration with Dan Penn, enjoying a truly amazing string of hits with the cream of mid-1960s pop and soul artists (The Box Tops, Clarence Carter, Aretha Franklin, James and Bobby Purify, Percy Sledge, etc. etc.).

The late 1960s saw Oldham head for Southern California where he focused on sessions work. Signed to a contract by Gulf + Western's short-lived Family Records subsidiary, 1973 saw Oldham release his first solo album. Produced by Ed Cobb, "Pot Luck" sported one of the year's ugliest covers, but the songs made up for that lapse in marketing taste. First a quick warning. Anyone familiar with Oldham's catalog will understand why he's known for his writing and keyboards - his gruff voice makes Kris Kristofferson sound truly polished (in contrast, Dan Penn has a far more commercial voice). Still, if you can get over Oldham's raw voice, tales of life's woes and darker sides such as "The Lord Loves a Rolling Stone", "Life's Little Package of Puzzles" and "Easy Listening") have a rugged and odd charm. The flip side serves as an odd, largely instrumental mixture of favorites he played on ("When a Man Loves a Woman" and "I Never Loved a Man") and personal "best of" package with Oldham covering some of his better known compositions ("Kentucky Grass" and "Cry Like a Baby"). It ain't commercial, but it's quite easy to see why the album's highly sought after by collectors. (This also gets one of our cool cover awards.) http://us.geocities.com/badcatrecords/OLDHAMspooner.htm

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