Dan Penn

Songwriter/maker Dan Penn is a calm push behind Southern spirit music for over 30 years. Always shifting simply out of look at from the limelight, Penn offers produced and created strikes for the Package Tops, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin and Ronnie Milsap, amongst others. Originally from Vernon, Alabama, Penn started his career like a performer, leading many white R&B rings around the Muscle tissue Shoals area. Attaining early achievement by selling popular track to Conway Twitty (“Is really a Bluebird Blue?”), the songwriter ultimately relocated to Memphis, becoming a member of producer Potato chips Moman at his American Studios. Collectively the two, alongside Penn’s composing partner, organist Spooner Oldham, published and/or produced many strikes for the Package Tops, such as for example “The Notice” and “Cry Just like a Baby,” through the entire past due ’60s. Penn ultimately returned to Muscle mass Shoals through the period when Atlantic Information vice chief executive Jerry Wexler was getting functions like Aretha Franklin and Solomon Burke straight down from NY to record presently there. This resulted in Franklin trimming the Penn/Oldham structure “Do Right Female,” as well as for the next many years, Penn compositions such as for example “Dark End of the road,” “Female Left Lonesome” and “I’m Your Puppet” became spirit classics and had been documented by such greats as Wayne Carr, Janis Joplin and Dionne Warwick, respectively. Hardly ever really regarded as a performer, in 1994 Penn released the lengthy awaited follow-up to his 1973 single recording Nobody’s Fool. This recording contains Penn shows of tunes that others are recognized for such as for example “I’m Your Puppet,” in addition to new material. Occasions from This Theatre adopted in 1999.