Muscle Shoals. Dir. Greg 'Freddy' Camalier. Magnolia Pictures, 2013. Film

Muscle Shoals. Dir. Greg 'Freddy' Camalier. Magnolia Pictures, 2013. Film

distinctive, was far from unique. Peter Guralnick in his work Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom identifies Muscle Shoals alongside other recording sites, Memphis, Tennessee, and Macon, Georgia as marking a distinctive triangle of innovation (interracial group Booker T and the MGs being the house band for the Memphis based Stax soul label). In fact more credit

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  • Carter, Clarence. “Patches, Atlantic Records, 45-2748, USA.” 1970. Recording.
  • Guralnick, Peter. Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom. Edinburgh: Canongate books, 2002. Print.
  • Lipsitz, George. ““Ain’t Nobody Here but Us Chickens’:The Class Origins of Rock and Roll.” Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. 303– 333. Print.
  • Muscle Shoals. Dir. Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier. Magnolia Pictures, 2013. Film.
  • Pickett, Wilson. “Hey Jude.” Atlantic Records, 1968.