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Dan Penn - "You Left the Water Running" Referred to by Peter Guralnick in his indispensable tome Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Search for Freedom as "the secret hero of this book," Dan Penn is southern soul music's most venerable behind-the-scenes figure. As a writer or co-writer, he is responsible for some of the genre's most canonical songs, "I'm Your Puppet," "Dark End of the Street" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" among them. He was with Alex Chilton during the singer's first attempt to navigate the treacherous straights of fame, producing Box Tops classics such as "The Letter," "Soul Deep" and "Cry Like a Baby," the latter of which he co-wrote with Spooner...