After starting out in Alabama and then moving on to to work with at , proceeded to co-write and produce several '60s soul hits for artists like , and blue-eyed soul band . Some of the classics and / ' studio veteran wrote include and "I'm Your Puppet." These and several other of their tunes are featured on , a collection of live duets taken from 1998 dates in Dublin, London, and South Petherton, Somerset. With laying down a tasty soul base on the Wurlitzer piano and strumming easeful guitar chords and singing in his sweetly powerful way, the duo glide through 14 gospel-inflected, country-soul gems, eloquently touching on southern living, loneliness, and the joys and trials of love. There's also a good dose of humor here in songs like An intimate and inspiring recording by two of the unsung giants of southern soul. ~ Stephen Cook