Spooner Oldham: Lord Loves A Session Man | American Songwriter

Spooner Oldham @ Farm Aid 2009
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A nice profile of Spooner Oldham, an esteemed sideman of Neil Young and many other musical legends over the decades from Spooner Oldham: Lord Loves A Session Man | American Songwriter by Carena Liptak:

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 and Clarence Carter poured into northern Alabama to sing songs, and a rotating house band cut records with them all. Everybody brought their own dish to the party. That’s a fair analogy for how Oldham approached recording with these artists and with his peers, and a literal take on the title of his album Pot Luck, which originally came out in 1972 and was reissued on Light In The Attic Records this fall. When I met him in Rogersville, Alabama, one late-August afternoon, he was wandering through the parking lot outside a resort lodge on the banks of the Elk River, swishing a styrofoam cup of coffee and wearing a pair of crisp white Converses decorated with Simpsons characters and a button-down shirt dotted with cartoon drawings of sushi. “Yeah, I like sushi,” he says, “but I don’t seek it out like some people do.”

Full article on Spooner Oldham: Lord Loves A Session Man | American Songwriter by Carena Liptak.

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