Headin' South: Muscle Shoals '87
Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, July 2001
Martin Colyer was a member of Hot House, the Brit deep-soul trio who ventured down to Muscle Shoals in 1987 to cut their first album South. He recalls the highs and lows of the experience.
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