Muscle Shoals
Americannoun
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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 ● Dec. 20, 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
"You can draw a triangle from Nashville to Memphis to Muscle Shoals, and while Nashville is the country centre, Memphis is generally known as the blues centre," he told NPR in 2023.
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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