Dan Penn - Close To Me: More Fame Recordings2016 collection, The sequel to our acclaimed 2014 release The Fame Recordings, Ace is now proud to present Close To Me: More Fame Recordings, comprising another two dozen nuggets featuring the unmistakable voice of songsmith extraordinaire, Dan Penn. As with the previous volume, all the tracks were recorded from 1963 to 1966, when a prolific and driven Penn spent countless days and nights at Rick Hall's Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals honing his writing

drawing in the listener to a space of private reflection

despite a relentless concert schedule and regular promotion via television shows such as Jack Good's pioneering 'Oh Boy

" Released in early 1961

Good Vibrations and many more on solo piano

label-mate Lee Brice and others

Grand Concert Hall Hanoi

an eight-track tape recorder with a cult following at Color Red studios

circulating what became a significant cultural legacy

ensembles and musicians in Germany

" others know him from the majestic Beatlesque pop of Big Star or as the name in a song by the Replacements ("Children by the millions sing of Alex Chilton

will discover some new treasures here

and the two team up once again for Cane's eighth blues album