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Latest releases from Dan Penn, Afel Bocoum and The Allman Betts Band


Dan Penn
Living on Mercy
(The Last Music Co.)
★★★★

DAN PENN is a blue-eyed country-soul songwriting genius and, at the age of 79, this is his first solo album in 26 years, recorded in Muscle Shoals and Nashville.

Hailing from Vernon, Alabama, among the big hits he penned are James & Bobby Purify’s I’m Your Puppet, Aretha’s Do-Right Woman, Do-Right Man, James Carr’s Dark End of the Street, You Left the Water Running by Maurice & Mac, plus hits for Percy Sledge, Bobby Patterson, The Box Tops, Bobby Bland and Albert King.

Afel Bocoum
Linde
(World Circuit Records)
★★★★


The Allman Betts Band
Bless This House
(BMG)
★★★★★

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