Equally capable of evoking a smoky barroom, curvy sensuality or river current, Spooner Oldham's impeccable keyboard playing set the atmosphere for quintessential soul hits. Chief among them: the ...
In the early 1960s, when funk descended upon Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Spooner Oldham was at the forefront of a core group of all-star session men. Acts like Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Etta James ...
Step inside Alabama's beloved Fame Studios for a must-hear performance from singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman with session mainstay Spooner Oldham. Goodman, a Kentucky native spinning sharp Southern ...
Last year, Marcella Simien got a temporary new addition to her band, Spooner Oldham He’s a keyboardist, songwriter, and producer who has worked with Chips Moman at American Studios in Memphis and FAME ...
My cousin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2009. Let me back up. My great-granddaddy and Dewey Lindon "Spooner" Oldham, Jr.'s granddaddy are brothers. In Rogersville, Alabama, part ...
The Back Door Coffeehouse will welcome a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee this Friday. Kate Campbell, American folk singer and songwriter, is bringing her friend Spooner Oldham along for a show.
Working with partner Dan Penn, he wrote "Cry Like a Baby" for the Box Tops and "I'm Your Puppet" for James and Bobby Purify while working as musician on some of the most historic soul recording and ...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Spooner Oldham performed for free at Good Records in Dallas on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017. (David R. Wilson) Spooner Oldham, a legendary musician and 2009 Rock and Roll ...
When Rick Hall, Spooner Oldham and the remaining Swampers inevitably die, the words “Muscle Shoals” will be in the first line of each of their obituaries, not just as an indication of where they lived ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rock legend Neil Young will be in the Bluff City this week, appearing as part of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony ...
Neil Young works in strange ways. That might well go without saying, but it deserves repeating if only because, with the release of a brand-new song with a novel lineup of musicians, the inscrutable ...