Mention “Muscle Shoals” and for many the phrase evokes an otherwise obscure Alabama town where memorable soul-era R&B records were born, by such luminaries as Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and the ...

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 ...

“Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising” is on exhibit in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, until the end of March. [COURTESY/DEBBIE BRADFORD] Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham perform ...

Little Muscle Shoals, Alabama boasts a giant legacy as the birthplace of blues, "Brown Sugar" and miraculous American icons. Helen Keller, W.C. Handy and Sam Phillips were each born along this sleepy ...

There are many unsung Muscle Shoals music greats, and Junior Lowe might be the most unsung of them all. He played guitar or bass on a pile of Shoals classics including Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves ...