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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 ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is celebrating the legendary music of Muscle Shoals, AL, with its newest major exhibition, Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising, now open through March 2028. The ...

“Respect,” by Aretha Franklin. “Wild Horses,” by the Rolling Stones. “Tell Mama,” by Etta James. “Free Bird,” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. “Old Time Rock and Roll,” by Bob Seger. A small town in northern ...

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 ...

In 2015, Rachel Wammack was crowned Miss University of North Alabama, where the Muscle Shoals native was pursuing a Professional Writing degree through the school’s English department. During the show ...

Detroit’s newest music festival revved up downtown on Friday, as Motor City Muscle kicked off with seven stages of rock and a showcase of muscle cars. Belinda Carlisle, Fishbone and the Dead Kennedys ...