Muscle Shoals Alabama FAME Studios is where it all started, this is one fantastic documentary. I would rate the sound quality as excellent too, this is a movie made with love. Well worth tracking down and staying up late, 2 hours of pure joy.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muscle-shoals/film.html
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Freddy Camalier’s film brings in legendary artists including Aretha Franklin, Duane’s brother Gregg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Jimmy Cliff, Mick Jagger, Alicia Keys, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Steve Winwood, and others, as well as archival interviews with the late Wilson Pickett and Etta James, all who bear witness to the magnetism and mystery of Muscle Shoals and why it remains a global influence today."
The number of artists who recorded at FAME Studios is staggering, many of the songs listed below are performed by the artist in the archival footage, Duane Allman with Wilson Pickett doing Hey Jude is just killer:
Percy Sledge
Jimmy Hughes
Etta James
Arthur Alexander
Aretha Franklin
Jimmy Cliff
Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett
Aretha Franklin
Arthur Alexander
Clarence Carter
Arthur Conley
The Staple Singers
Clarence Carter
Donny Osmond
Mac Davis
Aretha Franklin
Wilson Pickett
Otis Rush
The Rolling Stones
Otis Redding
The Fame Gang
The Rolling Stones
Candi Staton
Taj Mahal
Traffic
Bob Dylan
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Rolling Stones
The Band
Clarence Carter
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Paul Simon
The Fame Gang
Boz Scaggs
Etta James
The Allman Brothers Band | When A Man Loves A Woman
Steal Away
Tell Mama
You Better Move On
I Never Loved a Man [The Way I Love You]
Sitting In Limbo
Mustang Sally
Funky Broadway
Land Of 1000 Dances
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
You Better Move On
Slip Away
Sweet Soul Music
I'll Take You There
Snatching It Back
Go Away Little Girl
Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me
One Step Ahead
Hey Jude
Reap What You Sow
Wild Horses
Respect (Single/LP Version)
Your Good Thing (Is About To End)
I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart (Than A Young Man's Fool)
Brown Sugar
Statesboro Blues
(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired
Pressing On
Free Bird
You Gotta Move
The Weight
Patches
Sweet Home Alabama
Kodachrome
Grits And Gravy
Loan Me A Dime
I'd Rather Go Blind
Statesboro Blues
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