Music
Jimmy Driftwood
Inducted 2010
Singer-songwriter from Mountain View, Arkansas who penned The Battle of New Orleans — a Grammy Award winner for Song of the Year and a million-selling hit.
James Corbitt Morris, known professionally as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was an American folk-style songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs “The Battle of New Orleans” and “Tennessee Stud”. Driftwood wrote more than 6,000 folk songs, of which more than 300 were recorded by various musicians.