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Little Muscle Shoals, Alabama boasts a giant legacy as the birthplace of blues, "Brown Sugar" and miraculous American icons. Helen Keller, W.C. Handy and Sam Phillips were each born along this sleepy ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Muscle Shoals holds an outsized place in the history of American music. Known for two legendary recording studios – Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and FAME Studios – the town has ...

Aretha Franklin and Paul Simon. Otis Redding and Hank Williams Jr. Duane Allman and Wilson Pickett. These artists that might not seem to have anything in common have one major thing in common: their ...

For America's 250th, we're taking a look at stories from across our country's history! Right now, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has a love letter of sorts to another major music city, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WHNT) — The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s exhibit, “Low Rhythm Rising: The Muscle Shoals Sound,” marked its first week open to the public Friday. It’s a love letter to the ...

“Most of this record was written before seven o’clock in the morning,” Mike Farris tells me over the phone on a recent Monday. In the old days when Farris lived hard, making music at that hour likely ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating the legendary music of Muscle Shoals, AL, with its newest major exhibition, Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising, now open through March 2028. The ...

On the wall of Michael Gray’s office at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, there’s a framed Hatch Show Print poster for a 2011 panel discussion at the museum titled Land of 1000 Dances: The ...

Rick Hall, the producer who forged the Southern soul style known as the Muscle Shoals sound, died on Tuesday at his home in Florence, Alabama. He was 85. The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, ...

SHEFFIELD, Ala. (WAFF) - Leaders in the Shoals are trying to attract musicians of all kinds to help keep the area “The Recording Capital of the World.” Two years ago they started an incentive program ...