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Chickie Wah Wah Presents
Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham
Fri, 1 May, 8:00 PM CDT
Doors open
7:00 PM CDT
Chickie Wah Wah
2828 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119
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Please join us in welcoming back to Chickie Wah Wah the legendary Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham for our annual Fest-o-Matic series.
Dan is quite possibly the greatest writer in the history of Soul music. He wrote or co-wrote the Dark End of the Street, Do Right Woman Do Right Man, I’m Your Puppet, Cry Like a Man and more – the list goes on and on. His longtime songwriting partner and incredible piano player Spooner Oldham (who played with the Muscle Schoals Rhythm Section, Neil Young’s band and the Drive-by-Truckers), is another songwriting legend who was recently inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, the latest of many accolades in his career.
Last year’s show was one of the highlights of Fest-o-Matic. It still gives me chills and if you were there you know what I mean. They play this year on Friday, May 1st at 8pm, and will be followed by a separate show by young Patterson Hood whose history with them both goes back to his childhood. That should be a very cool night of music, so get your tickets to that show also while you are at it! Don’t miss your chance to see this pair of American music legends.
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Dan Penn
Dan Penn
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At first glance, Dan Penn, a self-professed hillbilly from Alabama, may seem like an unlikely candidate for one of soul music’s greatest creative forces. Nevertheless, when considering the vital role he played in the development of soul music in both Muscle Shoals and Memphis, no other distinction is possible. During a career spanning over six decades, Penn has left an indelible mark on popular music as an iconic songwriter, a fearless producer, and a criminally underrated singer, merging the worlds of black R&B and white country music with a rarified expertise.
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Spooner Oldham
Spooner Oldham
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He was born Dewey Lindon Oldham, Jr. on June 14, 1943 in Sheffield, Alabama, and grew up in the unincorporated community of Center Star in Alabama’s northern Lauderdale County. Spooner Oldham came from a musical family. His father, Dewey Lindon Oldham Sr., formed a string band with Spooner and his brothers, taught Spooner chords on the mandolin (that Spooner transposed to guitar) and created an original Southern gospel style. Spooner’s early influences included singing in church and listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio. Oldham Sr.’s band recorded a record at WJOI in Florence, AL and auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry in the early 1940s. Oldham, Sr. might have turned professional were it not for his father’s World War II-related disability. Spooner was given a piano as a youth, and his mother, Marie, a hair stylist, and his two sisters, Judy and Donna, also sang. Donna had a brief stint in a rock band.