★★★☆☆Muscle Shoals, which lends its name to Greg Camalier's doc, is an Alabama city based on the southern banks of the Tennessee River (population 12,000). Back in the fifties it was even smaller, a rural smudge on the map, but it was in the neighbouring town of Sheffield that record producer Rick Hall opened the Fame recording studios. Hall - with a team of session musicians - started pumping out tracks for the likes of Jimmy Hughes (who provided the studio with their first hit), Wilson Picket and Percy Sledge. Atlantic Records' Jerry Wexler would send Hall his artistes until a bust-up with Aretha Franklin led to a life-long feud.
- 2/4/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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