MacKay, who had been a professional singer in Muscle Shoals, Alabama when she took a nearly decade-long turn with the ...

Little Muscle Shoals, Alabama boasts a giant legacy as the birthplace of blues, "Brown Sugar" and miraculous American icons. Helen Keller, W.C. Handy and Sam Phillips were each born along this sleepy ...

They had just a little bit of time to set up lights and cameras in the New York hotel room before Aretha Franklin got there. When Franklin arrived, the Queen of Soul was hungry, recalls Anthony Arendt ...

This weekend celebrates the birth of a legend — what Johnny Cash called “The Big Bang of Country Music.” That’s when The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers recorded, separately, for the microphones of ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Muscle Shoals holds an outsized place in the history of American music. Known for two legendary recording studios – Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and FAME Studios – the town has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SHEFFIELD, Ala. (WHNT) — Muscle Shoals is ...

MacKay’s fondest memories singing with the Grateful Dead included three 1978 shows in Egypt, where they performed in front of the Great Pyramid. “Those were really exciting, fulfilling deep times and ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will honor Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with a new exhibition. The exhibit, "Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising," will run for nearly three years starting November ...

While Godchaux is known for her time with the Dead, she also contributed to several hits from artists like Elvis Presley, ...

MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - The City of Muscle Shoals will be celebrating the city’s 100-year anniversary on Saturday at city hall. The event will be headlined by many musical ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Christopher M. Reali, assistant professor of music at Ramapo College, to discuss his new book, Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals. They chat about the Muscle ...

Rick Hall, the producer who forged the Southern soul style known as the Muscle Shoals sound, died on Tuesday at his home in Florence, Alabama. He was 85. The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, ...