Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio is an American recording studio, the 1969 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama by musicians Barry Beckett (keyboards, † 10 June 2009), Roger Hawkins ( drums), Jimmy Johnson ( guitar) and David Hood (bass ) was founded, after they had left the Fame Studios. Rick Hall, owner of the Fame Studios had signed a contract with Capitol Records, which included a guarantee of one million U.S. dollars. The musicians he offered to pressure from Johnson and Hawkins to $ 10,000 per year, then this Fame left. The recordings of the musicians can be found on the publications, among others, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and hear the Staple Singers.

The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section - under this name the musicians were known - were among the first musicians of which had their own recording studio and in the wake of his own music publishing and production company. The success was adjusting itself more and more artists to record in this studio, including those from the rock music. Among other things, The Rolling Stones, who recorded their pieces Brown Sugar and Wild Horses for the Stones album Sticky Fingers in the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. Other artists with recordings from the Muscle Shoals studio, the band Traffic, singer Lulu, Boz Scaggs, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Elkie Brooks and Bill Haley & His Comets ( who recorded their last two albums in Muscle Shoals ) and the younger Soul - generation such as Bobby Womack and Millie Jackson. 1985 sold the founder of the studio.

The original studio building is located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 3614 Jackson Highway, and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The new studio is located in Sheffield, Alabama, listed on the NRHP with the No. 06,000,437th