A shimmering guitar, punching horns, churchy organ and pleading, sanctified vocals all give Do Right Man the feel of a lost soul collection from the '60s. And in many ways, Dan Penn is the lost soulman. This is only the second album in a careèr that spans nearly 30 years, and it includes many of the songs he wrote or co-wrote during soul music's heyday: "Do Right Woman Do Right Man," "I'm...

For those who view soul music history as the tip of the proverbial iceberg, there's a big block of cool beneath Aretha Franklin's "Do Right Woman," James Carr's "Dark End of the Street" and numerous other soul staples of the era, an age when the machinery behind the hits took a back seat...