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While recording at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, soul shouter Wilson Pickett allegedly pulled a gun on the Isley Brothers.

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s mention of Muscle Shoals having The Swampers in their hit song “Sweet Home Alabama” was a reference to the nickname of the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section from FAME Studios.

Side 2 of Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1976.

Chess Records’ Leonard Chess convinced Etta James to record her hit 1968 album “Tell Mama” at Muscle Shoals FAME Studios.

The name “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio” was a local tongue-in-cheek joke, because the studio was actually Sheffield, a town that shares a border with Muscle Shoals.

The Black Keys’ 2010 album Brothers was the first album recorded at the freshly reopened Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama.

The famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studio was formed by studio musicians — the first rhythm section to own their own studio.

FAME Studios, responsible for that soulful “Muscle Shoals Sound”, was founded in 1959 and is still producing hits.

Pre-Allman Brothers Band, Duane Allman was the session guitarist at Muscle Shoals’ FAME Studios.

Duane Allman played the scorching guitar solo on Wilson Pickett’s soulful cover of “Hey Jude” while living in a tent in Muscle Shoals FAME Studio’s parking lot.