Muscle Shoals - BLU-RAY

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 InchSinging River,Inch 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 it's 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 InchMuscle Shoals soundInch and the Scampers, 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.

What the Funk Brothers did for Motown... The Wrecking Crew did, only bigger, for the West Coast sound. Six tears in a row in the 1960's and early 1970's, the Grammy for Record of the Year went to Wrecking Crew recordings. The Wrecking Crew tells the story of the unsung musicians that provided the backbeat, the bottom and the swinging melody that drove many of the number one hits of the 1960's. It didn't matter if it was Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, the Monkees, the Byrds or the Beach Boys, these dedicated musicians brought the flair and musicianship that made the American west coast sound a dominant cultural force around the world.

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