In 2005, the building was purchased by Tonya Holly and was renamed Cypress Moon Studios. The facility is open for tours and also has a concert hall where they host various shows. Hook, Etta James, John Prine, Julian Lennon, Glenn Frey of the Eagles, Jimmy Buffett and countless others. At the new studios, The Swampers continued to turn out the hits for artists such as Bob Seger, Bob Dylan, Dr. Second Location of Muscle Shoals Sound StudioĪdmission After Muscle Shoals Sound outgrew its studio on Jackson Highway in Sheffield, the Swampers purchased a much larger building across town on the banks of the Tennessee River, moving to this location in 1978. The building has been restored and is now a museum and a working recording studio. This is the same group of musicians that were immortalized as the "Swampers" by Lynyrd Skynyrd in the lyrics of "Sweet Home Alabma." This iconic studio, that was once a casket warehouse, helped make the Muscle Shoals area the “Hit Recoding Capital of the World”. Open: Tuesday-Saturday 10 am- 4 pm (Tours given every hour, on the half hour)Įstablished in 1969 by a group of former FAME Recording Studio session musicians, this was the location where the Rolling Stones, Cher, Bob Seger, Rod Stewart, Paul Simon, the Staples Singers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and many others created some of the most popular hits of the 1970s. It remains a working studio and continues to attract major recording artists.įirst Location of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Arthur Alexander’s 1961 hit, “You Better Move On,” cut here, launched the famous Muscle Shoals Sound. This is the studio that made Muscle Shoals famous and helped it garner the status "Hit Recording Capital of the World". The internationally acclaimed documentary “Muscle Shoals” tells the story of FAME.
MUSCLE SHOALS SOUND STUDIO MUSEUM MOVIE
Gregg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals’ magnetism, mystery and why it remains influential today.Ī course and concluding movie screening are a joint partnership between the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University (OLLI at Auburn) and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art.Tours: Monday-Friday 9 am and 4 pm Saturday from 10 am-3 pm (tours every hour, last tour starts at 2 pm)Įstablished in 1959, FAME was the first successful, professional recording studio in Alabama. He is responsible for creating the “Muscle Shoals sound” and The Swampers, the house band at FAME that eventually left to start their own successful studio, known as Muscle Shoals Sound. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Hall brought black and white together in Alabama’s cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios. Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River,” as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time.
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music.
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