2013 - “A Road Leading Home” covers almost 50 years of Dan's songwriting, from his first ever hit, IS A BLUE BIRD BLUE (written when Dan was 14) to WHAT'S WRONG WITH RIGHT, a 21st century Penn copyright essayed by the Hacienda Brothers. The CD features a number of Dan's best known songs, including such Penn perennials as RAINBOW ROAD, DO RIGHT WOMAN - DO RIGHT MAN and the immortal DARK END OF THE STREET. As with every entry in the songwriter series, A Road Leading Home also features some lesser known (but no less good) recordings of songs from Dan's golden era, several of which appear here on CD for the first time…
24 Songs
- WITHOUT A WOMAN (Ted Taylor)
- YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING (Billy Young)
- I TRIED TO TELL YOU (The Entertainers)
- BREAK UP THE PARTY (Linda Gail Lewis)
- IS A BLUE BIRD BLUE (Dan Penn)
- ONCE MORE WITH FEELING (Jeanie Fortune)
- THE DARK END OF THE STREET (Roy Hamilton)
- (ALMOST PERSUADED TO) GIVE HIM ONE MORE TRY (Linda Carr)
- COME ON (Tommy Roe)
- OH! WHAT A FOOL I'VE BEEN (The Sweet Inspirations)
- FAR FROM THE MADDENING CROWD (The Drifters)
- UP TIGHT GOOD MAN (Laura Lee)
- SO MANY REASONS (James & Bobby Purify)
- DO RIGHT WOMAN-DO RIGHT MAN (Brenda Lee)
- CHEATER MAN (Esther Phillips)
- LONG AGO (Bobby Patterson)
- I CAN'T STOP (NO NO NO) (The Blues Busters)
- RAINBOW ROAD (Percy Sledge)
- ZERO WILLPOWER #2 (Irma Thomas)
- TEARJOINT (Ted Roddy And The Tearjoint Troubadors)
- WHAT'S WRONG WITH RIGHT (The Hacienda Brothers)
- BETTER TO HAVE IT (Bobby Purify /Ben Moore)
- I HATE YOU (Ronnie Milsap)
- LIKE A ROAD LEADING HOME (Albert King)
