Artist: Dan Penn
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #61 Jan-Feb 2006
Dan Penn And Spooner Oldham – Old souls
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham begin Moments From This Theatre, their in-concert collection of chamber soul, with “I’m Your Puppet”. The tempo is unhurried but insistent, with Penn’s voice sweet and soulful, his gently picked acoustic guitar brushing up against Oldham’s Wurlitzer electric piano. The offhand artistry of the performance derives from decades of friendship [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Dan Penn – I Cut Myself Loose and I Try to Get Out of the Way
Seldom is heard, in conversation with Dan Penn, a discouraging word. Until you try to hang a label on him: Is he a songwriter, a producer or a performer? “I don’t like to be put in boxes. People think they’ve got your number,” Penn says in a honey-dipped drawl that’s almost as mellifluous as his [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Dan Penn – Blue Nite Lounge
On Blue Nite Lounge, his first studio album since 1994′s Do Right Man, Dan Penn serves up a musical smorgasbord that showcases his strengths as a singer and songwriter. “Funky Folks” and “Down Around Birmingham” are Southern slices of R&B and soul, while Penn highlights his down-home philosophical side on “You Don’t Miss What You [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #25 Jan-Feb 2000
Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham – Moments From This Theatre
In 1991, when Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham made a rare foray to the stage at New York’s Bottom Line, I was lucky to be in the audience, and ever since have pined to secure the magic of that night on record. The wait is over. Penn, he of the astonishingly soulful vocals, and Oldham, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #10 July-Aug 1997
Dan Penn – Nobody’s Fool
Dan Penn is one of the great songwriters. His work and his life are what legends are made of, and so is this recording. Penn wrote or co-wrote such ’60s classics as “Dark End Of The Street”, “Do Right Woman” and “I’m Your Puppet”; Nobody’s Fool, released in 1972, was his first solo record. His [...]
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