Muscle Shoals

ICONS of MUSCLE SHOALS tells the story of some of the many people who made a major contribution to the development of American Soul and R&B music. The...

Muscle Shoals was a city with a population of approximately 6,000 people in the 1960s, where Black and White communities lived uneasily together during the period of racial...

First published - on August 26, 2020, up-dated November 30, 2024Family patriarch Roebuck “Pops” Staples was born near Winona in Minnesota. In the early 1920s his family moved...

Jerry Wexler is remembered for many things within the music industry, but perhaps the most significant of all is his invention in 1949 of the term Rhythm and...

First published 12 August 2020 Strangely, one of the best Soul albums ever was released in the UK in 1968. It was manufactured by Polydor Records and pressed...