The Many Varieties of Dan Penn's "You Left The Water Running"

“Dan Penn wrote the song, and with Spooner Oldham backing him in a late-nineties concert, he turns in a performance that trumps anything in Crazy Heart. The acoustic guitars sound fantastic, and it’s proof that country rock and soul are next-door neighbors with a low fence between the properties. What would Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, or Buck Owens have done with the song? This gives us some indication.
–Awl pal Tim Sutton provides a nice history of the soul standard “You Left The Water Running” at the Moistworks audioblog. What would Japanese soul revivalists the Fave Raves do with the song, at the Red Cloth rock club in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district? See above.