RIP Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

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Not so much the end of an era as the final shuttering of an era that ended long ago. It wasn't even the original building, of course. Still, I'm sorry to see it go.

briania (briania), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

In remembrance, here's the list Tim posted to one of the old Rough Guide threads:

Here's a stab at a Muscle Shoals one, as requested by someone. I've mostly gone for hits, which seems to be kind of the point, and I've tried to hint at the way things went after 1977, but this one ends in '77, like everything else.
1. Arthur Alexander: You’d Better Move On
2. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally
3. Aretha Franklin: Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
4. James Carr: Dark End Of The Street
5. Don Varner: Tear Stained Face
6. Candi Staton: Evidence
7. Clarence Carter: Willie And Laura Mae Jones
8. Percy Sledge: Cover Me
9. Irma Thomas: A Woman Will Do Wrong
10. James & Bobby Purify: I’m Your Puppet
11. Solomon Burke: Proud Mary
12. Rolling Stones: Wild Horses
13. Swamp Dogg: Sam Stone
14. Willie Nelson: I’m Falling In Love Again (How Will I Know)
15. Luther Ingram: If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Wanna Be Right)
16. Jonnie Taylor: It’s September
17. Art Garfunkel: Crying In My Sleep
18. Staple Singers: If You’re Ready (Come Go With Me)

(I have all of these records except one, in case we're still supposed ot be sharing that kind of information).

-- Tim (hopkinsti...), January 21st, 2004.

briania (briania), Monday, 21 February 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

What a great name.

Mark (MarkR), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

The original building is just a junk shop now. It's kind of sad. Muscle Shoals eats its own history.

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 21 February 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

God, did everybody record "Willie and Laura Mae Jones"?

Never occurred to me that David Hood and Patterson Hood were related.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 21 February 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)


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