The Man From Muscle Shoals “My Journey from Shame to Fame” (Paperback)

The Muscle Shoals Phenomenon: Music History’s Most Fascinating Untold Story New Tell-All Memoir Released by the “Father of Muscle Shoals Sound” Everyone knows the music—from Wilson Pickett’s, Mustang Sally, to Etta James’ Tell Mama, to Aretha Franklin’s, I Never Loved A Man, to Clarence Carter’s Patches—but not many know the complicated, volatile, and impossibly driven man behind the elusive “Muscle Shoals Sound”; that rare and coveted ‘secret sauce’ that made droves of successful artists, and literally hundreds of gold and platinum records possible. Meet Rick Hall, the “Father of the Muscle Shoals Sound” and the unofficial father of the funky, catchy and distinctively Southern vibe of music that helped define a generation. Seemingly from its founding, Hall’s FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals itself—a rural town of 8000 residents—became an almost mystical breeding ground for transcendent music; inexplicably attracting the biggest names in music history to fly in for creative recording