Last year, a combined total of 60,000 or so people visited Muscle Shoals’ FAME Studios, Sheffield’s Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and Tuscumbia’s Alabama Music Hall of Fame. The triumvirate draws guests ...

They had just a little bit of time to set up lights and cameras in the New York hotel room before Aretha Franklin got there. When Franklin arrived, the Queen of Soul was hungry, recalls Anthony Arendt ...

A new book and a Country Music Hall of Fame exhibit explore the history of Muscle Shoals' music scene. Rob Bowman's new book, "Land of a Thousand Sessions," details how the small Alabama town became a ...

On the wall of Michael Gray’s office at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, there’s a framed Hatch Show Print poster for a 2011 panel discussion at the museum titled Land of 1000 Dances: The ...

Aretha Franklin and Paul Simon. Otis Redding and Hank Williams Jr. Duane Allman and Wilson Pickett. These artists that might not seem to have anything in common have one major thing in common: their ...

Roger Hawkins, the drummer in the legendary Swampers and Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section who played on hits like Aretha Franklin’s “Respect,” Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally,” and Percy Sledge’s “When a ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will honor Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with a new exhibition. The exhibit, "Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising," will run for nearly three years starting November ...