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Author: Christopher M. Reali Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252053516 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 193
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A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022 The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon. Christopher M. Reali's in-depth look at the fabled musical hotbed examines the events and factors that gave the Muscle Shoals sound such a potent cultural power. Many artists trekked to FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound in search of the sound of authentic southern Black music—and at times expressed shock at the mostly white studio musicians waiting to play it for them. Others hoped to draw on the hitmaking production process that defined the scene. Reali also chronicles the overlooked history of Muscle Shoals's impact on country music and describes the region's recent transformation into a tourism destination. Multifaceted and informed, Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals reveals the people, place, and events behind one of the most legendary recording scenes in American history.
Author: Christopher M. Reali Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252053516 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022 The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon. Christopher M. Reali's in-depth look at the fabled musical hotbed examines the events and factors that gave the Muscle Shoals sound such a potent cultural power. Many artists trekked to FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound in search of the sound of authentic southern Black music—and at times expressed shock at the mostly white studio musicians waiting to play it for them. Others hoped to draw on the hitmaking production process that defined the scene. Reali also chronicles the overlooked history of Muscle Shoals's impact on country music and describes the region's recent transformation into a tourism destination. Multifaceted and informed, Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals reveals the people, place, and events behind one of the most legendary recording scenes in American history.
Author: C S. FUQUA Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781500195632 Category : Muscle Shoals (Ala.) Languages : en Pages : 0
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From Dexter Johnson's garage studio to James Joiner's "A Fallen Star," Tune Records to FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound studios, Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones, from the beginning to present day-Muscle Shoals: The Hit Capital's Heyday & Beyond is an updated, expanded version of Music Fell on Alabama, the original book-length history of the Muscle Shoals music industry, first published in 1991, chronicling the cooperation of black and white producers and artists during one of the most volatile times in U.S. race relations, cooperation that produced many of the most celebrated and enduring songs of all time. Much has been written about the Muscle Shoals music industry and even a movie produced, most accounts crediting the area's phenomenal success to some mystical power divined from the Tennessee River. Myth makes for good drama, but Muscle Shoals: The Hit Capital's Heyday & Beyond details the true source of the industry's success: the tenacious determination of talented individuals obsessed with the desire to make a difference in music. And what a difference they made...
Author: Blake Ells Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625852959 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 144
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FAME Publishing first opened in 1959 and produced hits for great musicians like Etta James, Clarence Carter and Aretha Franklin. Not long after, the city of Muscle Shoals became known as the "Hit Recording Capital of the World." FAME was the foundation that produced Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, the Nutthouse and Sundrop Sound at Single Lock Records'studios that gave a voice to artists like Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and John Paul White. A new generation, including the Pollies and Doc Dailey & the Magnolia Devil, today carries the tradition of great music. Through extensive research, and enriched with interviews from those who lived it, local author Blake Ells chronicles the epic story that started with FAME.
Author: Carla Jean Whitley Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625847173 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 178
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The chronicle of the legendary Alabama studio brings to life decades of rock, blues, and R&B history from The Rolling Stones to The Black Keys. An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the session musicians known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section—also dubbed “the Swampers.” Some of the greatest names in rock, R&B and blues laid tracks in the original, iconic concrete-block building, including Cher, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and scores of others. The National Register of Historic Places now recognizes that building, where Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded the original version of “Free Bird” and the Rolling Stones wrote “Brown Sugar” and “Wild Horses.” By combing through decades of articles and music reviews related to Muscle Shoals Sound, music writer Carla Jean Whitley reconstructs the fascinating history of how the Alabama studio created a sound that reverberates across generations.
Author: Royce Banome Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 158
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The Muscle Shoals sound has appeared in many different incarnations, but over the past few decades, the bulk of attention has gone to classic records made in the 1960s and '70s at FAME and the Jackson Highway studio in Sheffield. While many of these records hold up as classics and the stories behind their conceptions are the stuff of legend and myth, there's been a hell of a lot of great music made in the Shoals since the demise of the original 3614 Jackson Highway and the shift in FAME's focus from recording to publishing.
Author: Carter Cassatt Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 158
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The Muscle Shoals sound has appeared in many different incarnations, but over the past few decades, the bulk of attention has gone to classic records made in the 1960s and '70s at FAME and the Jackson Highway studio in Sheffield. While many of these records hold up as classics and the stories behind their conceptions are the stuff of legend and myth, there's been a hell of a lot of great music made in the Shoals since the demise of the original 3614 Jackson Highway and the shift in FAME's focus from recording to publishing.
Author: Christopher Michael Reali Publisher: ISBN: Category : Music and race Languages : en Pages : 658
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Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is a unique site for studying the complex intertwining of music, race, and the American South. Exploring this region reveals how and why the music recorded in Muscle Shoals became integral to the cultural framework within 1960s and '70s America. Making Music in Muscle Shoals utilizes an integrative framework that draws upon musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and complementary disciplines such as American and African-American studies as it examines this northwest Alabama music industry. By combining the musical analysis of key soul recordings, original interviews, and previously overlooked archival materials, this work constructs a multifaceted interpretation of the Muscle Shoals sound as a sonic product of time, place, and specific people, imbued with cultural meaning. The period considered, 1960 to 1975, includes the ascension, dominance, and decline of soul music on the pop music charts, as well as Muscle Shoals' transition from soul mecca to pop music hit factory. This dissertation relies upon two methodologies: 1 musical analysis, 2 ethnographic research, and two case studies. In the first I foreground the contributions of the all white studio musicians to identify the musical elements that characterize the so-called Muscle Shoals sound. My conclusions challenge the often narrowly-focused associations between race and soul music, and revise the place of Muscle Shoals within the narrative of an authentic black Southern musical past. This dissertation, therefore, provides a model for the study of people, music, and place. Ultimately, Making Music in Muscle Shoals fills lacunae within the larger narrative of popular music studies by assessing salient musical characteristics and interpreting the long-lasting cultural effects of this Alabama community.
Author: Carla Jean Whitley Publisher: ISBN: 9781626192393 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed "the Swampers." Some of the greatest names in rock, R&B and blues laid tracks in the original, iconic concrete-block building--the likes of Cher, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rolling Stones and the Black Keys. The National Register of Historic Places now recognizes that building, where Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded the original version of "Free Bird" and the Rolling Stones wrote "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses." By combing through decades of articles and music reviews related to Muscle Shoals Sound, music writer Carla Jean Whitley reconstructs the fascinating history of how the Alabama studio created a sound that reverberates across generations.
Author: Christopher M. Reali
Author: Christopher M. Reali
Author: C S. FUQUA
Author: Blake Ells
Author: Carla Jean Whitley
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Author: Royce Banome
Author: Carter Cassatt
Author: Christopher Michael Reali
Author: Carla Jean Whitley
Author: Brian F. Wright