Many great writers emerged out of the Muscle Shoals music scene of the 1960s but few of them made quite the impact on popular music of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham. Prolific together and apart, the two men are responsible for innumerable Hall-Of-Fame classics...........Sweet Inspiration gathers up two dozen of their finest co-creations and demonstrates that they are fully deserving of the kind of accolades that they have always received from soul fans and that, in recent years, they have been afforded by a much broader spectrum of music lovers and music writers......It's astonishing to think that most of these songs were written in a period of not much more than two years, and that both men were also collaborating with other Shoals writers during the same time frame............

1. OUT OF LEFT FIELD - Percy Sledge

2. I'M YOUR PUPPET - Dionne Warwick

3. SWEET INSPIRATION - The Sweet Inspirations

4. A WOMAN LEFT LONELY - Charlie Rich

5. I WORSHIP THE GROUND YOU WALK ON - Etta James

6. I'M LIVING GOOD (VERSION 2) - The Ovations

7. TAKE ME (JUST AS I AM) - Solomon Burke

8. CRY LIKE A BABY - Arthur Alexander

9. IT TEARS ME UP - Jeanne Newman

10. SLIPPIN' AROUND - Art Freeman

11. I MET HER IN CHURCH - Tony Borders

12. ARE YOU NEVER COMING HOME - Sandy Posey

13. LET IT HAPPEN (ALTERNATE TAKE) - James Carr

14. EVERYTHING I AM - The Box Tops

15. FEED THE FLAME - Ted Taylor

16. WATCHING THE TRAINS GO BY - Tony Joe White

17. IN THE SAME OLD WAY - Arthur Conley

18. DENVER - Ronnie Milsap

19. DREAMER - Patti LaBelle & The Bluebelles

20. GOOD THINGS DON'T COME EASY - Irma Thomas

21. I NEED SOMEONE - The Wallace Brothers

22. HE AIN'T GONNA DO RIGHT - Barbara Lynn

23. WISH YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO - Tommy Roe

24. LET'S DO IT OVER - Joe Simon