Muscle Shoals

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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The Love Earth tour follows this summer’s “Talkin to the Trees” LP, for which Young convened a new band called the Chrome Hearts featuring guitarist Micah Nelson, bassist Corey McCormick and drummer Anthony LoGerfo — they all play in Promise of the Real, which has previously backed Young — as well as organist Spooner Oldham, who’s known for the Southern soul classics he helped create as part of the mid-’60s music scene in Muscle Shoals, Ala.

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Musically, the band is everywhere on this track; it’s Memphis again, it’s Muscle Shoals; the guitars shimmer, full of resonance.

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Myers has been recording his next album at FAME, the studio known as the cradle of the so-called Muscle Shoals sound popularized by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and Etta James.

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The chrome hearts in their other lives are members of Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real, who have been backing Neil on and off for the last decade and then the legendary keyboardist Spooner Oldham, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and best known for his work as part of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.

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Their initial singles flopped but, after the success of the Jackson 5 showed that family pop could be a commercial success, MGM Records signed the band and sent them to work at the famed R&B studio Muscle Shoals.

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