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Muscle Shoals: Soul of the South

Chris Campion, unpublished, September 2004

Muscle Shoals and Fame Studios are synonymous with the golden era of soul music. But the musicians who wrote and played on the songs that turned Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin into household names were a gang of down home white boys from the country.

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