Georgia Blanchard Chief Copy Editor Two Muscle Shoals “Swampers” were honored for their nearly 50-year-long songwriting tenure with the 2019 Hall-Waters Prize for Excellence in Southern Writing on April 12. Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, famous for writing songs for the likes of Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin, are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Musicians Hall of Fame and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. Kirk Curnutt, a professor of English and the chair of the English department at Troy, presented Penn and Oldham with the…
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