A Road Leading Home: Songs by Dan Penn

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Overview

Emerging from the Muscle Shoals music scene of the 1960s, Dan Penn wrote an incredible number of Southern soul, pop, and rock classics, many of them with Spooner Oldham, and most of these in the span of a couple years, and since he generally wasn't the one cutting these gems in the studio, it's sometimes difficult to grasp just how good and varied Penn's songwriting talent actually were. Ace Records earlier compiled a collection of some of Penn's best songs written with Oldham on a single disc under the title Sweet Inspiration, but Penn co-wrote with other partners, too, as well as penning (no pun intended) several great songs on his own, and this set covers some of his non-Oldham compositions as a kind of follow-up to that earlier collection. It's an impressive catalog and legacy, with tracks here like Albert King's "Like a Road Leading Home," Percy Sledge's "Rainbow Road," Billy Young's "You Left the Water Running," and Roy Hamilton's "The Dark End of the Street" simply underscoring that fact. One of the clear highlights here is Penn's own 1965 version of his first-ever song, "Is a Blue Bird Blue," written when he was only 14 years old. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	07/02/2013
Label:	Ace
UPC:	0029667054522
Rank:	88005

Tracks

1. Without a Woman  - Roger Hawkins  - Quin Ivy  - Jimmy Johnson  - Drew Miller  - Dan Penn  - Ted Taylor
2. You Left the Water Running  - Oscar Franck  - Rick Hall  - Dan Penn  - Billy Young
3. I Tried to Tell You  -  Entertainers  - Rick Hall  - Dan Penn
4. Break Up the Party  - Oscar Franck  - Rick Hall  - Felton Jarvis  - Linda Gail Lewis  - Dan Penn  - Ray Stevens
5. Is a Blue Bird Blue  - Rick Hall  - Dan Penn
6. Once More with Feeling  - Jeanie Fortune  - Marlin Greene  - Dan Penn
7. The Dark End of the Street  - Tommy Cogbill  - Roy Hamilton  - Chips Moman  - Dan Penn
8. (Almost Persuaded To) Give Him One More Try  - Linda Carr  - Donnie Fritts  - Rick Hall  - Dan Penn
9. Come On  - Rick Hall  - Felton Jarvis  - Dan Penn  - Tommy Roe
10. Oh! What a Fool I've Been  - Ralph Burns  - Darryl Carter  - Tommy Cogbill  - Tom Dowd  - Spooner Oldham  - Dan Penn  -  Sweet Inspirations
11. Far from the Maddening Crowd  - Bert Berns  -  Drifters  - Marlin Greene  - Bert Keyes  - Dan Penn
12. Up Tight Good Man  - Rick Hall  - Jimmy Johnson  - Laura Lee  - Dan Penn
13. So Many Reasons  - Marlin Greene  - Dan Penn  - Bobby Purify  - James Purify  - Don Schroeder
14. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man  - Brenda Lee  - Chips Moman  - Dan Penn
15. Cheater Man  - Chips Moman  - Dan Penn  - Esther Phillips
16. Long Ago  - Dale Hawkins  -  Killen  - Chips Moman  - Bobby Patterson  - Dan Penn
17. I Can't Stop  -  Blues Busters  - Rick Hall  - Roger Hawkins  - Dan Penn
18. Rainbow Road  - Donnie Fritts  - Quinn Ivy  - Dan Penn  - Percy Sledge
19. Zero Willpower  - Scott Billington  - Donnie Fritts  - Spooner Oldham  - Dan Penn  - Irma Thomas
20. Tearjoint  - Donnie Fritts  - Dan Penn  - Ted Roddy  - Jim Stringer  -  Tearjoint Troubadors
21. What's Wrong with Right  - David Gonzalez  -  Hacienda Brothers  - Dan Penn
22. Better to Have It  - Hoy Lindsey  - Dan Penn  - Bobby Purify  - Carson Whitsett
23. I Hate You  - Tom Collins  - Leroy Daniels  - Jack D. Johnson  - Ronnie Milsap  - Dan Penn
24. Like a Road Leading Home  - Albert King  - Don Nix  - Dan Penn

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Sweet Inspirations   Primary Artist
Albert King   Primary Artist
Tommy Roe   Primary Artist
Dan Penn   Primary Artist
Tearjoint Troubadors   Primary Artist
The Entertainers   Primary Artist
Irma Thomas   Primary Artist
Percy Sledge   Primary Artist
Bobby Purify   Primary Artist
Hacienda Brothers   Primary Artist
Brenda Lee   Primary Artist
James Purify   Primary Artist
Jeanie Fortune   Primary Artist
Ted Taylor   Primary Artist
Ted Roddy   Primary Artist
The Blues Busters   Primary Artist
Bobby Patterson   Primary Artist
Billy Young   Primary Artist
Laura Lee   Primary Artist
The Drifters   Primary Artist
Linda Carr   Primary Artist
Linda Gail Lewis   Primary Artist
Esther Phillips   Primary Artist
Roy Hamilton   Primary Artist
Ronnie Milsap   Primary Artist
Bert Keyes   Conductor

Technical Credits

Tommy Cogbill   Producer
Tom Collins   Producer
Dan Penn   Composer,Producer,Cover Photo,Arranger
Dale Hawkins   Producer
Darryl Carter   Composer
Chips Moman   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Bert Berns   Producer
Hacienda Brothers   Photo Courtesy
Tom Dowd   Producer
Bert Keyes   Arranger
Donnie Fritts   Composer
Don Schroeder   Arranger
Papa Don Schroeder   Photography
Bob Dunham   Liner Notes,Photo Courtesy
Hoy Lindsey   Composer
Rob Hughes   Photo Courtesy
Bob Killen   Composer
David Gonzalez   Composer
Jimmy Johnson   Composer,Producer
Oscar Franck   Composer
Leroy Daniels   Composer
Eric Crews   Photo Courtesy
Quinn Ivy   Arranger,Producer
Drew Miller   Composer
Paul Jeffrey   Package Design
Ted Roddy   Producer,Photo Courtesy
Jack D. Johnson   Producer
Felton Jarvis   Producer
Carson Whitsett   Composer
Spooner Oldham   Composer
Don Nix   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Tony Rounce   Liner Notes,Photo Courtesy
Scott Billington   Producer
Roger Hawkins   Composer,Producer
Ralph Burns   Arranger
Marlin Greene   Composer
Ray Stevens   Arranger
Jim Stringer   Producer
Rick Hall   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Quin Ivy   Composer
Nick Robbins   Mastering