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Deep Soul: How Muscle Shoals became music's most unlikely hit factory

Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph, October 2013

IN JANUARY 1967, a young singer named Aretha Franklin arrived in the small Alabama town of Muscle Shoals, her career hanging in the balance.

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