MUSCLE SHOALS — A documentary focusing on FAME Recording Studios founder Rick Hall and the birth of the “Muscle Shoals sound” will be featured at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

DECATUR — The acclaimed documentary about the early days of the Muscle Shoals music scene will be screened Nov. 21 at Decatur’s Princess Theatre for the Performing Arts.

Donna Jean Godchaux, a backup singer for The Grateful Dead who also sang on No. 1 hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, died November 2 of cancer at 78.

Located on the banks of the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of the most creative and defiant music in American history. Under the spiritual influence ...

The 11th edition of the Ponderosa Stomp kicks off 7 p.m. Thursday with a screening of the documentary Muscle Shoals at the Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp St., 504-528-3800). The film takes an ...

“Aretha’s sound was all her own. But in the very early stages of her career, when she was doing the standards, she was not able to find her voice.” That’s Jennifer Hudson, star of the Aretha Franklin ...