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Do Right Men: Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham

Lois Wilson, MOJO, January 2016

DAN PENN AND Spooner Oldham still remember the day everything changed. "I was in American Studios in Memphis working on the Box Tops," recalls Penn. "The producer Chips Moman called me up, said, 'Get out of there, they've shot Martin Luther King'. Well I knew what that meant and by the time I turned everything off and got out to my car and headed home, you could taste the anger and confusion."

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