The Mountain Goats, Dark in Here, 2021 on Merge

Twentieth studio LP from The Mountain Goats, recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals and produced by Matt Ross-Spang. THe Mountain Goats this time include John Darnielle with Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, and Matt Douglas, supported by Spooner Oldham, Will McFarlane, Susan Marshall, and Reba Russell.

Darnielle is such an amazing and interesting songwriter. The subtitle of the album is “12 songs for singing in caves, bunkers, foxholes, and secret spaces beneath the floorboards.” Who else (Flaming Lips?) would have a song titled “Aruging with the Ghost of Pater Laughner about his Coney Island Baby Review”?

My copy—via Electric Fetus in Minneapolis MN—is the blue vinyl limited edition with an etching on side 4.

HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY TO ALEX CHILTON + SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “Soul Deep” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0PeiKGpEsQ

#birthday #alexchilton #boxtops #souldeep #soul #bigstar #memphis #neworleans #letter #psychedelic #danpenn #spooneroldham #chipsmoman #bubblegum #flanneryoconnor #bangles #cheaptrick #beachboys #brianwilson #tavfalco #pantherburns #psychobilly #thecramps #garytalley #waynecarsonthompson #eddyarnold #garyusbonds #ginblossoms #robertflack #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #singersongwriter

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 91

Cowgirl in the Sand

Celebrating Neil Young on His 80th Birthday

“Hello, ruby in the dust (Hello, ruby in the dust)
Has your band begun to rust?
After all the sin we’ve had
I was hoping that we’d turn bad”

#neilyoung #crazyhorse #jimandjean #thebyrds #cityandcolour #josiecotton #elviscostello #brettadams #liamfinn #spooneroldham #neilyoungandthechromehearts

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/cowgirl-in-the-sand-purple-words-on-a-grey-background-hypnotized-by-the-sound-of-finger-cymbals-musicislife-tedtockscovers-neilyoung/

Dan Penn - "Nobody's Fool" (1973)

This ain't no beer joint, it's a tear joint.

#NowPlaying #DanPenn #SpoonerOldham #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

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Pot Luck by Spooner Oldham, released on Family Productions in 1972

Legendary ivory-tickler Spooner Oldham is synonymous with the Muscle Shoals sound. The southern soul pioneer famously backed the likes of Etta James, Jimmy Hughes, Wilson Pickett, Percy Sledge, Aretha Franklin, and many more, but his lone solo album, Pot Luck, finds Spooner in a rare role: front and center.

Oldham moved west in the late ‘60s when the patronage of bands like The Stones and The Flying Burrito Brothers made southern soul the in-demand sound. He joined the house band at Hollywood’s Producer’s Workshop and was soon playing for The Lettermen and Liberace. While recording the latter, it was suggested that Oldham make his own album. “I don’t really think I wanted it so much,” Oldham says now. “I think it was shoved on me. We’d got all this stuff set up, and now what do we do?"..

https://spooneroldham.bandcamp.com/album/pot-luck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VFcSskasRE&list=PLxbr4m-8bwF5CXWJIby68qII5z1JUejfF&index=1

#spooneroldham #musleshoals #southernsoul

Cat Power, Jukebox, 2008 on Matador

Eighth studio album from Cat Power, mostly covers with two originals mixed in.

Pretty eclectic selection of tunes to cover, from Kander & Ebb’s “New York” through Hank Williams and The Highwaymen, to Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Joni Mitchell – plus Billie Holiday’s “Don’t Explain.”

Chan Marshall is joined by Erik Paparazzi, Jim White, Judah Bauer, Teenie Hodges, Matt Sweeney, and Gregg Foreman, with guest Spooner Oldham, who cowrote “Woman Left Lonely.”

My copy via Academy Records in NYC

#AcademyRecords #CatPower #ChanMarshall #GreggForeman #JimWhite #JudahBauer #Matador #MattSweeney #NYC #SpoonerOldham #TeenieHodges #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds