Moments From This Theatre (LP)

Penn and Oldham, who helped shape the development of southern soul music with their legendary song writing, musicianship and production, made a live album touring in the U.K with Nick Lowe in 1998 called Moments from This Theatre, the masterfully understated, spellbinding album features soulfully intimate renditions of many of their hits giving music lovers the opportunity to hear the hits stripped down to their essentials, with nothing but Penn's deeply soulful vocals and acoustic guitar and Oldham's Wurlitzer and occasional singing.

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"You can put me and Spooner in a band and we just disappear, and our songs disappear - within a band," Penn explains of their motive for performing those dates. "That's why we decided to start playin' some gigs where it was just us, where we could show our song writing."

The pair have now been friends and cohorts for over half a century. And "Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham - The Complete Duo Recordings" celebrates, with characteristic understatement, this partnership for the ages, providing captivating evidence of their continuing "chemical deal together," which adds up to quiet brilliance.

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This is available in first-issue limited edition 180gm vinyl.