Muscle Shoals

American  

noun

1. former rapids of the Tennessee River in SW Alabama, changed into a lake by Wilson Dam: part of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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Example Sentences

Mention “Muscle Shoals” and for many the phrase evokes an otherwise obscure Alabama town where memorable soul-era R&B records were born, by such luminaries as Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and the Staple Singers.

From The Wall Street Journal

Illuminating how that came to be, how it has worked, and how it has made a difference for music heard around the world is the goal of a wide-ranging, 5,000-square-foot multimedia exhibition now open at Nashville’s Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, “Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising.”

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His direct, unadorned vocals on 1961’s “You Better Move On” started an explosion of gospel-inflected Muscle Shoals pop, from Jimmy Hughes’s “Steal Away” to his cousin Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The Muscle Shoals musicians would continue backing her, but in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal

There’s a digital jukebox where visitors can call up any of dozens of hit records produced in the area, but over the opening weekend of the exhibit, the most potent way to grasp what the Muscle Shoals sound implies may have been hearing the honored songwriting duo of Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham performing their song “I’m Your Puppet” and Penn and Moman’s “Dark End of the Street,” live, in the style of their demo records.

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