OH MY GOODNESS IS DONNIE FRITTS' MOST POLISHED RECORD TO DATE, AN ELEVATED AND SLIGHT DEPARTURE FROM THE FUNKY MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND HE'S KNOWN FOR, BUT WITH EVERY BIT THE POWERHOUSE SONGWRITING THAT MADE THE WORLD TAKE NOTICE DECADES AGO.

"I didn't want to do just another funk album," Donnie says. "I wanted to do songs I really love and songs I never got to cut before." "People don't make records with 71 year-old guys," he says, his humility always sitting shotgun by his talent.

John Paul White, formerly of the Grammy winning duo The Civil Wars and presently co-founder of Single Lock Records and owner of Sun Drop Studios in Florence, Ala., befriended Donnie in 2013 when he asked him to play at the Muscle Shoals documentary premiere in Florence.

Later, John Paul insisted the two cut an album. What began as a minimalist work - Donnie's raspy voice and his 1970's-era Wurlitzer - morphed into an amalgamation of fresh sound and honed talent backed by Nashville and Muscle Shoals legends, and rising brilliants alike.

"John Paul came by the house and I just started playing songs on the Wurlitzer piano.