Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
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 Exterior view of the original Muscle Shoals Sound Building on Jackson Highway in Muscle Shoals, 2007 |
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| location | Sheffield, Alabama , Colbert County , Alabama | ||
| Coordinates | 34 ° 44 ′ 42.2 ″ N , 87 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
| NRHP number | 06000437 | ||
| The NRHP added | June 2, 2006 | ||
The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio (MSSS) is an American recording studio at 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama . The original studio building has been listed in the US National Register of Historic Places since June 2, 2006 with the number 06000437.
history
The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio was founded by musicians Barry Beckett (keyboard instruments; † June 10, 2009), Roger Hawkins (drums), Jimmy Johnson (guitar, † September 5, 2019) and David Hood (bass) after they became FAME Left studios . Rick Hall , the owner of FAME, had previously signed a contract with Capitol Records that included a $ 1 million guarantee. Under pressure from Johnson and Hawkins, he offered the musicians only $ 10,000 a year, after which they left FAME. The recordings of the musicians can be heard on the releases of Aretha Franklin , Wilson Pickett and the Staple Singers, among others .
The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (MSRS) aka The Swampers - by these two names the band was known - were among the first musicians to have their own recording studio and, as a result, their own music publisher and production company. The ensuing success allowed more and more artists to be recorded in this studio, including those from the rock sector. For example The Rolling Stones , who recorded their pieces Brown Sugar , Wild Horses and You Gotta Move for the Stones album Sticky Fingers in Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. Other artists with recordings from the Muscle Shoals studio are the band Traffic , the singer Lulu , Boz Scaggs , Willie Nelson , Paul Simon ( There Goes Rhymin 'Simon ), Bob Dylan ( Slow Train Coming ), Rod Stewart ( Atlantic Crossing ) , Elkie Brooks and Bill Haley & His Comets (who recorded their last two albums in Muscle Shoals) and the younger generation of soul such as Bobby Womack and Millie Jackson. In 1985 the founders sold the studio.
reference
The southern band Lynyrd Skynyrd immortalized the swampers of Muscle Shoals in a verse of their greatest hit, Sweet Home Alabama . It says: " Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers / And they've been known to pick a song or two (yes they do) / Lord they get me off so much / They pick me up when I'm feeling blue, now how bout you? "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed January 11, 2018.
- ↑ Entry in the National Register Information System . National Park Service , accessed July 26, 2017
- ↑ Laura Snapes: Muscle Shoals co-founder Jimmy Johnson dies aged 76 in: The Guardian from September 6, 2019.
- ^ Peter Guralnick: Sweet Soul Music. Bosworth 2008, p. 455
- ^ Encyclopedia of Alabama: Muscle Shoals Sound Studios .
- ^ Peter Guralnick: Sweet Soul Music. Bosworth 2008, p. 457
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/s.php?sId=1437161&m=1