Muscle Shoals
‘Muscle Shoals’ is filled with great stories, characters and songs -- and, really, what else could you want from a music documentary?
Muscle Shoals
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River,” as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. At its heart is Rick Hall, who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Hall brought black and white together in Alabama's cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the "Muscle Shoals sound" and The Swampers, the house band at FAME that eventually left to start their own successful studio, known as Muscle Shoals Sound. Gregg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals' magnetism, mystery and why it remains influential today.
Genre
Documentary,
Rock and Roll,
Music
Web Site
Runtime
111
Language
English
Director
Greg 'Freddy' Camalier
FEATURED REVIEW
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
We see Bono's face before we hear a soul singer sing, but other than that prizing of current fame over timeless r&b, Greg "Freddy" Camalier's engaging new doc Muscle Shoals stands as a winning tribute to the coastal Alabama studio, musicians, and engineers who laid down some of the greatest pop ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 10.18.13 - 10.31.13
Town Center 5 10.18.13 - 10.31.13
Monica Film Center 10.18.13 - 10.31.13
Claremont 5 10.26.13 - 11.10.13
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