Thursday, June 13, 2013

Dandy Dan Penn

























Back in the mid-1960s, Dan Penn was what you’d call an all-nighter. A workaholic, a musical obsessive, he spent his wee hours at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, doing what he did best: wrestling songs to the ground.

Nearly a half-century after, Penn’s work from the era has finally come to light. In October (2012), U.K. reissue label Ace Records put out The Fame Recordings, a 24-song collection of Penn’s previously unreleased songwriting demos. The CD represents the best of the some 100 tracks Penn recorded there between 1963 and 1966 — including material later made famous by the likes of Otis Redding (“You Left the Water Running”) Percy Sledge (“It Tears Me Up”) and Arthur Alexander (“Rainbow Road”).

NPR recently did a review of the CD HERE

Also, Dan Penn will release Junkyard Junky on his own Dandy Records label July 29, 2013 and plans to tour select dates in support of this release. MORE HERE

Dan Penn : The Fame Recordings

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