Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals

2022-07-19 Music

Author : Christopher M. Reali
Release : 2022-07-19
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 516/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals written by Christopher M. Reali. This book was released on 2022-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022 The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon. Christopher M. Reali's in-depth look at the fabled musical hotbed examines the events and factors that gave the Muscle Shoals sound such a potent cultural power. Many artists trekked to FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound in search of the sound of authentic southern Black music—and at times expressed shock at the mostly white studio musicians waiting to play it for them. Others hoped to draw on the hitmaking production process that defined the scene. Reali also chronicles the overlooked history of Muscle Shoals's impact on country music and describes the region's recent transformation into a tourism destination. Multifaceted and informed, Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals reveals the people, place, and events behind one of the most legendary recording scenes in American history.

Muscle Shoals

2014-06-18 Muscle Shoals (Ala.)

Author : C S. FUQUA
Release : 2014-06-18
Genre : Muscle Shoals (Ala.)
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Book Rating : 632/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Muscle Shoals written by C S. FUQUA. This book was released on 2014-06-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Dexter Johnson's garage studio to James Joiner's "A Fallen Star," Tune Records to FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound studios, Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones, from the beginning to present day-Muscle Shoals: The Hit Capital's Heyday & Beyond is an updated, expanded version of Music Fell on Alabama, the original book-length history of the Muscle Shoals music industry, first published in 1991, chronicling the cooperation of black and white producers and artists during one of the most volatile times in U.S. race relations, cooperation that produced many of the most celebrated and enduring songs of all time. Much has been written about the Muscle Shoals music industry and even a movie produced, most accounts crediting the area's phenomenal success to some mystical power divined from the Tennessee River. Myth makes for good drama, but Muscle Shoals: The Hit Capital's Heyday & Beyond details the true source of the industry's success: the tenacious determination of talented individuals obsessed with the desire to make a difference in music. And what a difference they made...

The Muscle Shoals Legacy of Fame

2015-06-29 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Blake Ells
Release : 2015-06-29
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 245/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Muscle Shoals Legacy of Fame written by Blake Ells. This book was released on 2015-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "FAME Publishing first opened in 1959 and produced hits for great musicians like Etta James, Clarence Carter and Aretha Franklin. Not long after, the city Of Muscle Shoals became known as the "Hit Recording Capital of the World." FAME was the foundation that produced Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, the Nutthouse and Sundrop Sound at Single Lock Records-- studios that gave voice to artists like Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and John Paul White. A new generation, including the Pollies and Doc Dailey & the Magnolia Devil, today carries the tradition of great music. Through extensive research, and enriched with interviews from those who lived it, local author Blake Ells chronicles the epic story that started with FAME." --Back cover.

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

2019-01-28 Music

Author : Carla Jean Whitley
Release : 2019-01-28
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 173/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Muscle Shoals Sound Studio written by Carla Jean Whitley. This book was released on 2019-01-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chronicle of the legendary Alabama studio brings to life decades of rock, blues, and R&B history from The Rolling Stones to The Black Keys. An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the session musicians known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section—also dubbed “the Swampers.” Some of the greatest names in rock, R&B and blues laid tracks in the original, iconic concrete-block building, including Cher, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and scores of others. The National Register of Historic Places now recognizes that building, where Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded the original version of “Free Bird” and the Rolling Stones wrote “Brown Sugar” and “Wild Horses.” By combing through decades of articles and music reviews related to Muscle Shoals Sound, music writer Carla Jean Whitley reconstructs the fascinating history of how the Alabama studio created a sound that reverberates across generations.

Muscle Shoals

2014 Popular music

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Release : 2014
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