Early last week after a string of mysterious Lana Del Rey sightings in Alabama, AL.com reached out to Muscle Shoals Sound to see is she’d been recording there. And at the time, Del Rey, the ...

Rick Hall, the producer who forged the Southern soul style known as the Muscle Shoals sound, died on Tuesday at his home in Florence, Alabama. He was 85. The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, ...

In 1977, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio cofounder and Swampers guitarist Jimmy Johnson offered a local band called Jackson Highway a song called “Old Time Rock and Roll.” The band, named after Muscle ...

None of the session musicians knew the song, and they couldn’t find a copy anywhere locally. They needed to hear it, though. Because Rod Stewart wanted to record a cover of “The First Cut is the ...

After Aretha Franklin signed with Atlantic Records in 1967, producer Jerry Wexler brought her to record in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Known for its local recording studios, including FAME and Muscle ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WHNT) — The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s exhibit, “Low Rhythm Rising: The Muscle Shoals Sound,” marked its first week open to the public Friday. It’s a love letter to the ...