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Updated: 6:05 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 | Posted: 6:05 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, 2013

Sonny Curtis, Ronnie Dunn and Roger Miller added to Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame

By Michael Corcoran

Special to the American-Statesman

West Texan Sonny Curtis very well could be the Bo Jackson of songwriting. Instead of excelling in two sports, the 75-year-old Curtis penned two classics that are as divergent as football and baseball.

As a Lubbock sandstorm howled outside his window in the summer of 1958, he wrote “I Fought the Law,” one of the first rock rebellion songs, which was first recorded by the Crickets three months after Buddy Holly died, made famous by the Bobby Fuller Four in 1965, then flagged as a nascent punk song by the Clash.

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