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Dewey Lindon Oldham, Jr. "Spooner Oldham" (born June 14, 1943) [1] [2] is an American songwriter and session musician. An organist, he recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, at FAME Studios as part of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on such hit R&B songs as Percy Sledge 's "When a Man Loves a Woman", Wilson Pickett 's "Mustang Sally ...
Her self-titled debut appeared the next year, featuring a cast of well-known musicians that included Dr. John, Ry Cooder, Klaus Voormann, and Spooner Oldham. Guitarist Amos Garrett provided a sensual jazz-styled backdrop for his standout song, Midnight At The Oasis, which grabbed Grammy nominations for Record and Song of the Year.
Playing piano, organ, or vibraphone; arranging, producing, or singing backgrounds, Spooner Oldham was a quietly vital presence on sessions for Linda Ronstadt’s Don’t Cry How, Jackson Browne’s For Everyman, Maria Muldaur’s Waitress in a Donut Shop, and Bob Seger’s Beautiful Loser.
A spectacular group of musicians was brought in for the sessions, including guitarists Cooder, David Lindley and former Byrd Clarence White, drummers Jim Keltner and Jim Gordon, fiddler Richard Greene, pianists Dr. John, Jim Dickinson and Spooner Oldham, Bill Keith on banjo and steel guitar, and Klaus Voorman, Ray Brown and Chris Ethridge ...
The album featured a huge number of backing musicians, among them Ry Cooder, Clarence White, David Grisman, Jim Keltner, Chris Ethridge, Jim Dickinson, Dr John, Amos Garrett, Klaus Voormann, Bill Keith, David Lindley, Spooner Oldham and Jim Gordon.
Singer Maria Muldaur was born Maria D'Amato in New York City. In the 1960s, she was a member of the New York-based Even Dozen Jug Band and later of the Boston-based Jim Kweskin Jug Band, which also included her husband, Geoff Muldaur, from whom she was divorced in 1972. She found solo success with the sultry single "Midnight at the Oasis ...
2. Mai 2024 · Spooner Oldham übernahm Jack Nitzsche's Platz am Piano. Er spielte bereits für z.B. Percy Sledge, James and Bobby Purify, Clarence Carter, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Maria Muldaur, Joe Cocker und Linda Ronstadt.
