Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Rick Hall brought black and white together to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the “Muscle Shoals sound” and The Swampers, the house band at FAME Studios that eventually left to start its own successful studio known as Muscle Shoals Sound. Gregg Allman and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals’ magnetism, mystery and why it remains influential today.
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No better memories.
Keepin it together, now that I'm back on the road, between Macon and Musle Shoal's. Bosiefus
I've seen this so many times, it's great. I will say, Rick Hall has to be THE unluckiest man in the world!
It left me in tears at the end. What a powerful film.
DAMM ! ! !
What a time
wow THANK YOU for uploading this i love this movie
This is history! Musical history that relates to anyone ..Legends that need to be remebered for all time.. Ive waited to see this and it did not disappoint..what kind of idiot thumbs this down? …Muscle Shoals has got the swampers..theyve been known to pick a song or two! You damn right Ronnie!
Sorry, but Alicia Keys does absolutely nothing for me. She is not what I consider a real star. Why they had to include her on this, I don’t know but it really ruined it for me.
RIP Rick Hall (1932-2018)
I lovd these stories !! Thank you for sharing this video !!
Was Rick Hall a musician?
Did he ever have any compunction telling others what to do when he could not do it himself?
Seems to me an amazing level of self-confidence early on until he proved to others and himself his intuition was correct.
Something good came from quarantined during the covid-19 crisis…I found this doc! Luv it, luv it, luv it and thank you for sharing. ❤️?
great
SOUTHERN SOUL❤
This is a true gem. Some things aren't binary, they are magic.
First time I heard the words "Muscle Shoals" was the first time I heard Sweet Home Alabama. No Google. No cell phones back then.
Did not have a clue. I'm thankful to see this doc. I've been a singer songwriter guitar player all my life. Life's problems held me back.
I was younger then, and now I'm 63, but I'm gonna make 5 more albums.
Muscle Shoals and Stax (Memphis) have similar stories and these two studios have produced some of the best music in my time.
Rick Hall was the miracle
this place was at the heart of the Cultural Renaissance that happened in music, art, poetry and everything …so grateful to be alive through this time.
Alicia keys is amazing. Not to mention beautiful.
Great program but I just wished Bono wasn't in it.
CLASSIC!!!
WOW !!!!!!! "Best movie EVER"
The Shoals has a great Waffle House too.
Muscle Shoals, Sound City and Motown, America's musical Mecca's!
My Grandmother lived in Muscle Shoals. My Grandfather helped build the Damm on the Tennessee river. I live in Miami but last time I was in Alabama I went by and saw the recording studio on the Tennessee river. My family told me of all the music that was made in that studio. My Grandma passes at 100 years old last year. RIP God Bless you and Muscle Shoals
It's still being made there! Check out Bishop Gunn, you won't regret it!
Most excellent !
This is the REAL America. This is how America really is. This should be shown in every school across our country. Let's teach our children this amazing historical coming together of people regardless of their color.
I thought this documentary was supposed to be about a legendary music studio and not about race relations. Southerners do not need lecturing about race. We certainly don't need Hollywood and New York infusing their morals on us, the height of arrogance. Further, if anyone bothers to look, ships built, sailed and transported slaves were built in the North. Brown University was started from monies earned in the slave trade. Southerners were and are resentful for being forced into situations by a yankee run government.
Great stuff !!!
This Title is perfect, but perhaps the story line is, …" Anything is Possible ". Rick Hall's story is like no other. How many nobodies have taken this path ?
damn i guess the best things in life are free, amazing documentary!