Rob Bowman’s new book, “Land of a Thousand Sessions," provides definitive history of how Muscle Shoals, Alabama, became a musical juggernaut.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Muscle Shoals holds an outsized place in the history of American music. Known for two legendary recording studios – Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and FAME Studios – the town has ...

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 ...

“Most of this record was written before seven o’clock in the morning,” Mike Farris tells me over the phone on a recent Monday. In the old days when Farris lived hard, making music at that hour likely ...

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 ...

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. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. These artists that ...

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 ...