Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1626192391 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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The National Register of Historic Places now recognizes that building, where Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded the original version of "Free Bird" and the Rolling Stones wrote "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses." By combing through decades of articles and music reviews related to Muscle Shoals Sound, music writer Carla Jean Whitley reconstructs the fascinating history of how the Alabama studio created a sound that reverberates across generations.. An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed "the Swampers." Some of the
"Soul Music Hit Factory" according to TooManyGeetars. If you love R&B/Soul music, then you have heard the Swampers, the studio musicians who played on so many of the '60's, 70's, etc. hits, Jimmy Johnson, Barry Beckett, David Hood, and Roger Hawkins. They gave Aretha her first hit and many more after it, and created hits for Wilson Pickett, the Rolling Stones and so many others. I first noticed the Swampers' names along with Duane Allman's on Boz Scaggs' first album sometime in the '70's and saw them repeated again and again on so many other albums that I used them as a buying guide. And it always worked!Carla Jean Whitley has done superb job telling th. Beautifully written, for somebody that wrote their first book ladya Beautifully written, for somebody that wrote their first book! Carla Jean Whitley absolutely shines all the way through. Fantastically written (loving job) and beautifully researched. Her heart was really in it. And she's local person, Alabamian anyway, unlike Bono! Why did they even put him in the movie? What does Bono knows about Muscle Shoals? He never even recorded there and now he's an expert?FYI For some reason this book went very quickly out of print and it was going for as much as $100 around Christmas time! That's if you can even find it! Now that is ridiculous. It also was available by Barn. M. L. Caldwell said scampers. loved this book.grew up in Sheffield .this the story of music.today the creative juices are aliveyoung talent is carrying forward the torch of Muscle Shoals Sound
From the Back Cover"Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers. And they've been known to pick a song or two"