1. Nobody's Fool 2:52
2. Raining in Memphis 3:43
3. Tearjoint 2:55
4. Time 2:21
5. Lodi 3:17
6. Ain't No Love 3:36
7. I Hate You 2:26
8. Prayer for Peace 2:45
9. If Love Was Money 3:32
10. Skin 2:45
Dan Penn - Guitar, Vocals
Charlie Freeman - Guitar
Tommy Richards - Guitar
Jay Spell - Keyboards, Piano
Mike Utley - Keyboards
Spooner Oldham - Organ
Bill Phillips - Organ
Greg Reding - Organ
David Hood - Bass
Jim Johnson - Bass
Tommy McClure - Bass
Sammy Creason - Drums
Dulin Lancaster - Drums
Chris Welch - Liner Notes
Susan Coleman - Vocals
Jeanie Greene - Vocals
Mary Holliday - Vocals
AMG:
"Songwriter/producer
Dan Penn has been a quiet force behind Southern soul music for over
thirty years. Always moving just out of view of the limelight, Penn has
produced and written hits for the Box Tops, Solomon Burke, Aretha
Franklin and Ronnie Milsap, among others.
Originally from Vernon,
Alabama, Penn began his career as a performer, leading several white
R&B bands around the Muscle Shoals area. Achieving early success by
selling a hit song to Conway Twitty ('Is a Bluebird Blue?'), the
songwriter eventually moved to Memphis, joining producer Chips Moman at
his American Studios. Together the two, along with Penn's writing
partner, organist Spooner Oldham, wrote and/or produced several hits for
the Box Tops, such as 'The Letter' and 'Cry Like a Baby,' throughout
the late '60s.
Penn eventually returned to Muscle Shoals during the
period when Atlantic Records vice president Jerry Wexler was bringing
acts like Aretha Franklin and Solomon Burke down from New York to record
there. This led to Franklin cutting the Penn/Oldham composition 'Do
Right Woman,' and for the next several years, Penn compositions such as
'Dark End of the Street,' 'Woman Left Lonely' and 'I'm Your Puppet'
became soul classics and were recorded by such greats as James Carr,
Janis Joplin and Dionne Warwick, respectively.
Never really
considered a performer, in 1994 Penn released the long awaited follow up
to his 1973 solo album Nobody's Fool. This album contains Penn
performances of songs that others are known for such as 'I'm Your
Puppet,' as well as new material. Moments from This Theater followed in
1999."
Nobody's Fool
or
Nobody's Fool
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