Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham - Nordwestradio, Bremen, Germany, 10-14-1999

The songwriting team of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham are responsible for many soul classics, such as "Don Right Woman, Do Right Man" and "The Dark End of the Street." I've made two albums of their songs for my "Covered" series. But in addition to being excellent songwriters, they also were excellent performers. In particular, Penn had a soulful voice, and could have been a star if he'd saved his best songs for himself. (He sings lead on most of the songs here.) However, the two of them preferred being songwriters and sessions musicians instead. This concert is a good overview of the best songs, most of which they wrote together.

Penn and Olham began writing songs together in the 1960s, and wrote many hits. Penn put out a solo album in 1973, but it was mostly ignored at the time, and it seems he didn't tour or otherwise promote it. He resumed a solo career in 1993, usually working closely with Oldham. As far as I can tell, they only began touring in 1998, and occasionally toured after that. A live album compiled from various 1998 concerts was released in 1999, called "Moments from This Theatre." I prefer this concert for several reasons. For one, I prefer hearing a single concert, rather than an album cobbled together from lots of different concerts. Also, the official live album has 14 songs on it, and this one is significantly longer, with 21 songs. Plus, this one also has more banter.

This concert was recorded for a German radio station. The music is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. 

The concert is basically acoustic, with Penn playing an acoustic guitar and Oldham playing an organ, and not much else. 

This album is an hour and 32 minutes long. 

01 I'm Your Puppet (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
02 Sweet Inspiration (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
03 talk (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
04 Cry like a Baby (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
05 Do Right Woman, Do Right Man (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
06 I Met Her in Church (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
07 talk (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
08 Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
09 talk (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
10 It Tears Me Up (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
11 The Dark End of the Street (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
12 talk (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
13 You Left the Water Running (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
14 A Woman Left Lonely (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
15 I'm Living Good (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
16 Ol' Folks (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
17 Nobody's Fool (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
18 Zero Willpower (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
19 Hello Memphis (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
20 Rainbow Road (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
21 Goodbye London [Edit] (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
22 talk (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
23 These Bars [Made a Prisoner Out of Me] (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
24 talk (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
25 Memphis Women and Chicken (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
26 talk (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
27 I Do (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)
28 Out of Left Field (Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham)

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I don't know anything about the cover photo except it was taken in 1996. Oldham has a beard and Penn is shown playing a guitar.