Economic developers have launched the Shoals Music Makers Recording Incentive, which will offer recipients up to a 30% reimbursement on projects recorded in the Shoals. With a goal of continuing the ...

Is there a soundtrack to your life? Chances are the majority of melodies playing on your turntable - especially those o ...

Nestled along the Tennessee River, in the state of Alabama, lies a small town that draws big names. You may not have heard of Muscle Shoals, but you have definitely heard its sound, thanks to a man ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Muscle Shoals holds an outsized place in the history of American music. Known for two legendary recording studios – Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and FAME Studios – the town has ...

The exhibit will be supported by a catalog, concert celebration, playlist and slate of opening weekend programs The museum's curatorial and creative teams conducted more than 50 hours of filmed ...

Wild horses couldn’t keep them away … from getting married at the actual place where The Rolling Stones recorded the song “Wild Horses.” Since September, four marriages have been held inside Muscle ...

SHEFFIELD, Ala. (WAFF) - Leaders in the Shoals are trying to attract musicians of all kinds to help keep the area “The Recording Capital of the World.” Two years ago they started an incentive program ...

Jimmy Nutt didn’t start working full-time in the music-recording business until he was around 30-years-old. Along the way, he’d played in rock bands in Shreveport, La. and Austin, Texas and held ...

MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA — Los Angeles, New York, Nashville. Those are cities where you would expect the world’s most influential musicians to record. But since the 1960s, many have quietly bucked the ...

As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive ...