Just over two hours from Nashville, the north Alabama town of Muscle Shoals and its nearby communities became an unlikely but ...

The Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama was home to many famous recordings. These four standout albums were just a few.

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 ...

SHEFFIELD, Ala. (WAFF) - Leaders in the Shoals are trying to attract musicians of all kinds to help keep the area “The Recording Capital of the World.” Two years ago they started an incentive program ...

Three years ago, somewhere between a string of shows across Alabama, Nashville, and Mississippi, this writer did what musicians have been doing for decades: we pointed the car toward Muscle Shoals.

When 22-year-old Cherilyn Sarkisian arrived at Muscle Shoals Sound in April 1969, the owners and musicians there didn’t recognize her. Sarkisian, better known as Cher, was one of the most famous ...

Economic developers have launched the Shoals Music Makers Recording Incentive, which will offer recipients up to a 30% reimbursement on projects recorded in the Shoals. With a goal of continuing the ...

Singer Lana Del Rey made headlines for a seemingly random recent trip to Alabama and, at long last, the mystery behind her visit to the Yellowhammer State has been solved. It appears our fave moody ...

“In Muscle Shoals, American music crossed lines that weren’t supposed to be breached...Black and white sounds, R&B, blues, soul and country met between the banks.” In fact, eagle-eyed (eared?) ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala (WHNT) — Certified Chief ...

FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — Jimmy Johnson, a founder of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios and guitarist with the famed studio musicians “The Swampers,” has died. He was 76. His family announced in a Facebook ...