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Deep Soul Mecca: Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1986

MUSCLE SHOALS: the very name suggests some grotesque image dreamt up by a surrealist painter. Shouldn't it be Mussel, you wonder... and yet this North Alabama town is a very long way from the sea.

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