CD A ROAD LEADING HOME

Popis - A ROAD LEADING HOME:
The songrwiting skills of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham have already been celebrated in fine style on Aces award-winning "Sweet Inspiration" compilation - a highlight of Ace's "Songwriter Series", and still available on CDCHD 1284.
Spooner was not Dan's sole collaborator during his most prolific years as a songwriter. Ace's follow up to "Sweet Inspiration" shines its spotlight on great songs that Dan has written with other notable writers, plus one or two he wrote on his own. "A Road Leading Home" covers almost 50 years of Dan's songwriting, from his first ever hit, Is A Blue Bird Blue (written when Dan was 14) to What's Wrong With Right, a 21st century Penn copyright essayed by the Hacienda Brothers. The CD features a number of Dan's best known songs, including such Penn perennials as Rainbow Road, Do Right Woman - Do Right Man and the immortal Dark End Of The Street. As with every entry in the songwriter series, "A Road Leading Home" also features some lesser known (but no less good) recordings of songs from Dan's golden era, several of which appear here on CD for the first time. Beautifully mastered and with a now de rigueur booklet crammed full of rare label shots and illustrations, this is sure to appear to everyone who has purchased any of Ace's Dan Penn or Fame-related projects.
Tracklisting:
1. WITHOUT A WOMAN - Ted Taylor
2. YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING - Billy Young
3. I TRIED TO TELL YOU - The Entertainers
4. BREAK UP THE PARTY - Linda Gail Lewis
5. IS A BLUE BIRD BLUE - Dan Penn
6. ONCE MORE WITH FEELING - Jeanie Fortune
7. THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Roy Hamilton
8. (ALMOST PERSUADED TO) GIVE HIM ONE MORE TRY - Linda Carr
9. COME ON - Tommy Roe
10. OH! WHAT A FOOL I'VE BEEN - The Sweet Inspirations
11. FAR FROM THE MADDENING CROWD - The Drifters
12. UP TIGHT GOOD MAN - Laura Lee
13. SO MANY REASONS - James & Bobby Purify
14. DO RIGHT WOMAN - DO RIGHT MAN - Brenda Lee
15. CHEATER MAN - Esther Phillips
16. LONG AGO - Bobby Patterson
17. I CAN'T STOP (NO. NO NO) - The Blues Busters
18. RAINBOW ROAD - Percy Sledge
19. ZERO WILLPOWER # 2 - Irma Thomas
20. TEARJOINT - Ted Roddy and the Tearjoint Troubadors
21. WHAT'S WRONG WITH RIGHT - The Hacienda Brothers
22. BETTER TO HAVE IT - Bobby Purify (Ben Moore)
23. I HATE YOU - Ronnie Milsap
24. LIKE A ROAD LEADING HOME - Albert King.