Little Muscle Shoals, Alabama boasts a giant legacy as the birthplace of blues, "Brown Sugar" and miraculous American icons. Helen Keller, W.C. Handy and Sam Phillips were each born along this sleepy ...

When 22-year-old Cherilyn Sarkisian arrived at Muscle Shoals Sound in April 1969, the owners and musicians there didn’t recognize her. Sarkisian, better known as Cher, was one of the most famous ...

We should all have our days filled with music like the kids at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts. Housed at Florence High School, the academy touches all the bases you can imagine artistically.

Singer Lana Del Rey made headlines for a seemingly random recent trip to Alabama and, at long last, the mystery behind her visit to the Yellowhammer State has been solved. It appears our fave moody ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is turning its attention to a little Alabama town that quietly shaped the soundtrack of generations. On November 14, 2025, the museum will open ...

Low Rhythm Rising is now open for a nearly three-year run, closing in March 2028. The more than 5,000-square-foot exhibit surveys the emergence of Muscle Shoals as a recording epicenter in the 1960s ...

They had just a little bit of time to set up lights and cameras in the New York hotel room before Aretha Franklin got there. When Franklin arrived, the Queen of Soul was hungry, recalls Anthony Arendt ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame wasn’t sure they were going to get the piano. The Apollo baby grand that was at FAME Studios from 1961 to 1970. The piano Aretha Franklin played on “I Never Loved a Man ...

The new exhibit will showcase iconic artifacts from that era, including the Apollo baby grand piano Franklin used on her breakout hit, a Fender Stratocaster once played by Duane Allman, Pickett’s ...

“In Muscle Shoals, American music crossed lines that weren’t supposed to be breached...Black and white sounds, R&B, blues, soul and country met between the banks.” In fact, eagle-eyed (eared?) ...