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 ...

The new exhibit will showcase iconic artifacts from that era, including the Apollo baby grand piano Franklin used on her breakout hit, a Fender Stratocaster once played by Duane Allman, Pickett’s ...

Is there a soundtrack to your life? Chances are the majority of melodies playing on your turntable - especially those o ...

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 ...

The exhibit will be supported by a catalog, concert celebration, playlist and slate of opening weekend programs The museum's curatorial and creative teams conducted more than 50 hours of filmed ...

When 22-year-old Cherilyn Sarkisian arrived at Muscle Shoals Sound in April 1969, the owners and musicians there didn’t recognize her. Sarkisian, better known as Cher, was one of the most famous ...

Economic developers have launched the Shoals Music Makers Recording Incentive, which will offer recipients up to a 30% reimbursement on projects recorded in the Shoals. With a goal of continuing the ...

SHEFFIELD — David Hood said he and the three fellow musicians who founded Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1969 had no clue the building that houses one of the most iconic recording studios in the U.S.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala (WHNT) — Certified Chief ...

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Jimmy Johnson, a founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios and guitarist with the famed studio musicians “The Swampers,” has died. He was 76. His family announced in a Facebook ...

“In Muscle Shoals, American music crossed lines that weren’t supposed to be breached...Black and white sounds, R&B, blues, soul and country met between the banks.” In fact, eagle-eyed (eared?) ...