Post subject: [2018-10-26] Various "Muscle Shoals: Small Town, Big Sound" tribute album with Steven Tyler, Alison Krauss, more (BMG)
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Why Steven Tyler, Grace Potter & Others Headed Down South to Record a Muscle Shoals Tribute Album
No two studios better captured the Muscle Shoals sound -- the now iconic, soulful energy of music recorded in Muscle Shoals, Ala. -- than FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound. Opened in 1959 and 1969, respectively, both studios hosted greats like Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan and Etta James. Come Sept. 28, songs by such legends will be covered on the 16-track tribute Muscle Shoals... Small Town, Big Sound. Curated by Rodney Hall (son of FAME owner-producer Rick Hall, who died in January) and producer Keith Stegall, the album features Chris Stapleton, Aloe Blacc, Jason Isbell and 22 others who visited the 16.5-square-mile town to rerecord classics originally tracked at the studios. Four contributors share how Muscle Shoals inspired their artistry.
Michael McDonald
“The first time I heard Aretha’s record ‘Respect,’ without knowing where it was recorded, I knew it was special. It was one of the most well-written R&B songs I had heard in a long time. There’s that B-section that lifts the whole song up in that great gospel way, which, to me, is the hallmark of Etta James.”
Grace Potter
“At 15, I started collecting albums from Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Phoebe Snow, Clarence Carter, Aretha. And it was only later, reading the fine print in the liner notes, that I realized almost all my favorite records had been recorded at Muscle Shoals. That’s clearly not a coincidence. That place is a vortex of soul.”
Steven Tyler
“We spent a few days recording [The Rolling Stones’] ‘Brown Sugar’ with three female singers, a bass player from The Swampers and a piano player from Fame Gang. It was sick that we gathered all these guys to play on this track that they played from way back when. I had no idea how good the song would turn out -- I was overwhelmed.”
Vince Gill
“My mom traced my family roots back, and my family is from Muscle Shoals, right across the Tennessee line. I chose to record ‘True Love’ because Glenn Frey [who recorded some of his third solo album at FAME] and I were great friends for 35 years. His passing [in 2016] was devastating. I was told it was one of his favorites.”
Post subject: [2018-10-26] Various "Muscle Shoals: Small Town, Big Sound" tribute album with Steven Tyler, Alison Krauss, more (BMG)
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Added a couple of days in Muscle Shoals to my South Carolina-Ole Miss football weekend to do (among other things in the area) the studio tours at Fame and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios.
Rick Hall's widow, Linda, chatted with us for maybe half an hour before the tour guide began his 45-minute tour at Fame. She told us that ABC has bought a scripted drama series based on her husband's 2015 memoir, "The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame" and the 2013 documentary film, "Muscle Shoals." Johnny Depp is among the show's executive producers, but the big news to me was that Heart's Nancy Wilson will be the series' executive music producer.
The staff at Fame are really pushing this new CD; we heard snippets of practically every song at some point during the tour. I'll be adding it to my next Amazon order.
For the record, I enjoyed the tour at MSSS a little more than the one at Fame, but that's because I'm a bigger fan of the artists (Cher, Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Paul Simon, Kim Carnes, Lulu and Boz Scaggs) that recorded there, but both tours were excellent, and I'd highly recommend them to anyone who is traveling in or near the area.
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