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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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In the 1990s, the family moved back to the Muscle Shoals area and Godchaux started recording music again and playing publicly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

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

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

According to former curator of Alabama's Music Hall of Fame, George Lair, the Muscle Shoals sound was a product of geography.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024

That was when a huge weapons plant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, switched over to making chemical fertilizer.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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