The small Alabama town of Muscle Shoals and record producer Rick Hall don't have the same familiar caché as the renowned 1960s soul music labels Motown or Stax. The familiar riffs heard in Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman," Etta James' "Tell Mama," Clarence Carter's "Slip Away" or Aretha Franklin's "Never Loved A Man" still turn up in movie soundtracks and trailers or over the sound system at a supermarket or Starbucks. Even after nearly 50 years, it's still surprising to see how pasty, pale Southerners backed up rhythm and blues superstar Wilson Pickett on such classic hits as "Mustang Sally," as depicted in the film. "The time period and the location is an unbelievable setting to what occurred and a tribute to all those guys who were beyond any small-town bigotry," says the film's director, Greg Camalier. By the end of the evening he convinced Pickett to cut a version of The Beatles hit of the time, "Hey Jude," and the recording became the inspiration for the southern rock sound of the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and dozens of other bands that dominated radio and the concert circuit in the 1970s.
The Biz: Pbs Celebrates Music's Hall Of Fame With Muscle Shoals
By Stephen Battaglio, TV GUIDE, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Entertainment
Fri, 04/18/2014 - 5:00pm
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