Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn honored at Troy Univ.

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Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn honored at Troy Univ.

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Renowned songwriters Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, two linchpins of the Muscle Shoals music scene that helped define the soul, pop, and rock music of the 1960s and 1970s, will receive the Hall-Waters Prize from Troy University on April 12.

The duo will discuss the craft of songwriting, the history of Southern music and the special role of Muscle Shoals in American popular culture from 10-11:30 a.m. in John M. Long Hall Room 104, on the Troy Campus. Admission is free and open to the public.

The following day, Penn and Oldham will speak at the Alabama Book Festival, in Montgomery, before performing a concert that evening featuring the numerous hits they wrote for Janis Joplin, the Box Tops, and Aretha Franklin.

https://today.troy.edu/news/troy-univer ... ers-prize/

https://today.troy.edu/news/troy-univer ... ers-prize/

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