Spooner Oldham

A pivotal player in Southern soul in the late 1960s, Spooner Oldham regularly played with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section at sessions held at FAME Studios, appearing on such seminal singles as Aretha Franklin's "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)," Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman," Clarence Carter's "Slip Away," and Wilson Pickett's "Mustang Sally" and "Funky Broadway." During this period, Oldham also struck up a partnership with guitarist Dan Penn that generated the soul standards "Cry Like a Baby," "I'm Your Puppet," and "It Tears Me Up." Once the golden age ...