Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Chain of Fools was released in late 67’ and was recorded in Atlantics' New York Recording studio. It was produced by Jerry Wexler, and engineered by Tom Dowd. Signature elements to the song include Joe Souths signature guitar playing, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm section and Aretha Franklins powerful vocal performance. 
 Drums: My drum rerecord feature a mono overhead, a kick out, snare bottom, a close room and a far room mic placed in the kitchen outside the studio to amplify the size of the space

Jimmy Hughes, Arthur Alexander, Clarence Carter, Joe Tex. He knew about all the records I was cutting and was heavy into black music.” However, at the time, Hall did not need another guitar player. This did not scourge Allman and he stayed in the Shoals, waiting for his chance. When Duane finally did get the chance to play for Rick Hall, he made a lasting first impression “One day we were doing a demo and he had his bottleneck,” says Hall. “To be honest with you, I hadn’t saw many

(INTRODUCTION) Thanks to the critically acclaimed “Muscle Shoals” documentary, music lovers are finding their way to the small town in northwest Alabama where some of the world’s greatest hits were recorded. This was the very town where, at Rick Hall’s FAME Studios and the rival Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Aretha Franklin found her groove, Paul Simon developed “Kodachrome” and Wilson Pickett cranked up “Mustang Sally.” In the documentary, Mick Jagger, Steve Winwood, Percy Sledge and Etta James

I consider my favorite song to be, Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd and believe it has been my favorite ever since I could understand words. At first the song was only my favorite because it mentions my dads hometown, Muscle Shoals, and I just thought it was super neat. As I grew older my dad explained to me the meaning and the story of the song, and I only started to like it more. The song Sweet Home Alabama was written in the 1970’s as a response to two songs written by Neil Young. The two

Putnam and David Briggs purchased 1802 Grand Ave to open a publishing company and rehearsal space. Both Putnam and Briggs were members of the first Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section assembled by Rick Hall, Billy Sherrill, and Tom Stafford at FAME Studio in Alabama. Bassist Norbert Putnam and keyboardist David Briggs appeared on such legendary Muscle Shoals recordings as Arthur Alexander’s “You Better Move On,” Jimmy Hughes's "Steal Away," and Tommy Roe's “Everybody." Tommy Roe with Putnam and Briggs

Band, the all-white Lynyrd Skynyrd did directly address the South’s history. In “The Ballad of Curtis Loew,” the song’s lyrics detail the discrimination felt by black individuals in the South. In the band’s biggest hit, “Sweet Home Alabama,” the band targeted Alabama Governor George Wallace for his positions as segregationist in the 1960s. Together, these groups embraced the styles of multiple musical groups and gained tremendous popularity nationwide while also carrying themes of racial

take years to be heard. Lawyers complained about having difficulty trying cases outside their county due to the lack of a judicial code. Alabama is known for non-Alabamians coming to Alabama for a “quickie divorce”. Even though Governor O’Neal sought reformation, Howell Heflin was the one that made this possible. He organized the Citizens’ Conference on Alabama Courts in 1966 that consists of coalition of businessmen, lawyers, minorities, and many others. Conservative planters and industrialist that

Tennessee valley during the great depression lead to an idea that had been manifested ten years earlier in a town famous for things other than hydroelectric power, Muscle Shoals. Henry Ford proposed that a federal dam should be built in Muscle Shoals to provide electricity and fertilizer for the region and President Coolidge insisted Muscle Shoals should be used as part of the development of the Tennessee Valley because of hydroelectric power and nitrate fertilizer production. Coolidge, however, did not

and dams all across the valley, most of the companies in the valley were sold to the government, and those that refused to sell, ended up failing because they could not compete with the TVA, the first dam operated by the TVA was Wilson Dam in Shoals Area, Alabama(From the New Deal to a New

ilson Dam- located in my hometown of Florence, Alabama- is a hydroelectric power-generating dam within the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system. It was built within the time frame of 1918 to 1924, and its construction was initiated by the events of World War I. Nitrate was a commodity in high demand for its use in explosives, and as the government began to fear a decreasing supply of the substance, the National Defense Act of 1916 was passed which authorized the construction of new nitrate plants