Muscle Shoals
Americannoun
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Carter then went solo and began recording music with producer Rick Hall and Fame in Muscle Shoals, amid the late-’60s soul boom.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
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
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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