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The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section is a group of American session musicians based in the northern Alabama town of Muscle Shoals. One of the most prominent American studio house bands from the 1960s to the 1980s, these musicians, individually or as a group, have been associated with more than 500 recordings, including 75 gold and platinum hits.
- 1960s-1980s
- Muscle Shoals, Alabama, U.S.
Aug 16, 2023 · The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, also known as The Swampers, consisted of four men you've definitely heard — but likely never heard of. Session musicians David Hood on bass, Barry Beckett on keyboards, Jimmy Johnson on rhythm guitar, and Roger Hawkins on drums played on scores of hit records in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s and helped arrange songs for huge acts like the Rolling Stones, Aretha ...
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Roe Erister “Rick” Hall (1932-2018) is widely regarded as a principal figure in the formation of the music recording scene in Muscle Shoals, Colbert County. He co-founded Florence Alabama Music Enterprises (FAME) in 1959; then, acquiring the business in 1960, Hall established FAME Recording Studio on Wilson Dam Road, moving the FAME operations to its […]
Musical artist. Roe Erister "Rick" Hall [1] (January 31, 1932 – January 2, 2018) [2] was an American record producer, songwriter, and musician who became known as the owner of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Nov 12, 2023 · Percy Sledge recorded “When A Man Loves A Woman” in nearby Sheffield, Alabama, in a studio owned by Hall’s friend, local DJ Quin Ivy, backed by a number of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section ...
Oct 1, 2018 · Rick Hall, who co-founded FAME with Billy Sherrill and Tom Stafford and was known as the "Father of Muscle Shoals Music," passed away on Jan. 2018 at the age of 85. Muscle Shoals and FAME became ...
Jan 3, 2018 · Rick Hall was born Roe Erister Hall on Jan. 31, 1932, in Forest Grove, Miss. He grew up in rural poverty in northern Alabama, raised by his father, a sawmill worker and sharecropper.
