#515 Spooner Oldham & Opinions on Janet Jackson

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4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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As a keyboardist in the legendary recording studios of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Spooner Oldham wrote and played on dozens of classic hits from Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, and more. He joins Jim and Greg for a conversation. Then they review the new album from Janet Jackson.

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0:00.0	You gotta understand something here. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.
0:06.0	Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.
0:27.0	You've heard about the studio greats in places like New York, LA in Detroit in the 60s and 70s, but as good, if not
0:35.8	better than all of them was the crew in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
0:39.6	I'm Jim De Orgatus.
0:41.3	And I'm Greg Kott.
0:42.3	Keyboardist and songwriter Spooner Oldham joins us for a conversation
0:46.1	about the Muscle Shoals sound. Then we review the new album from Pop Diva Janet Jackson.
0:52.1	That's all coming up on sound opinions.
0:57.0	This is sound opinions and Greg you know everybody's got 1989 on their minds these days
1:04.8	Taylor Swift Ryan Adams.
1:07.0	Yep and yet another reason to talk about 1989 because that was the year the
1:11.4	Janet Jackson released her Rhythm Nation record one of the best
1:15.1	albums of that decade and Janet Jackson is back with a new studio album with the guys who produced
1:20.8	that album Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. We're going to talk about that
1:24.0	later on in the show, but first we've got some music news. That is fettie Wab with my baby.
1:33.0	I just love the mall I'm getting flor with my baby.
1:36.0	Yeah.
1:38.0	And I can run with my baby, baby.
1:40.0	I'll be in the kitchen, good good surprise with my baby guy.
1:43.0	That is Fettie Wop with Trap Queen.
1:45.0	Jim, I like saying Fettie Wop.
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