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FAME Studios and Rick Hall
1961
Avalon Avenue, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
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Rick Hall built a studio over a drugstore in a town of eight thousand and drew soul singers from everywhere to a rhythm section of white farm boys who had grown up on gospel radio. Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett and Etta James all cut records here. Aretha Franklin's first session in 1967 collapsed in a row after one day, but the song they finished was I Never Loved a Man, and it made her.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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