Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

Left fame recording studios in the late 60s to build muscle shoals sound studios.
Muscle shoals rhythm section. One of the most prominent american studio house bands from the 1960s to the 1980s these musicians individually or as a group have been associated with more than 500 recordings including 75 gold and platinum hits. The muscle shoals rhythm section is a group of american studio musicians based in the northern alabama town of muscle shoals. The muscle shoals rhythm section who often backed seger in his studio recordings sent seger a demo of the song during the recording of stranger in town.
One of the most prominent american studio house bands from the 1960s to the 1980s these musicians individually or as a group have been associated with more than 500 recordings including 75 gold and platinum hits. Muscle shoals sound studio opened in early 1969 by the muscle shoals rhythm section also known as the swampers david hood on bass jimmy johnson on rhythm guitar roger hawkins on drums and barry beckett on keys. The role of lead guitar with muscle shoals rhythm section was a high pressure job says hood also a muscle shoals sound co founder because we were doing so many songs and so many sessions and.
They began working together at rick hall s fame studio in muscle shoals alabama where they became wel. The muscle shoals rhythm section msrs is one of america s most notable american recording studio house bands the quartet emerged during the golden age of rock soul in the 1960s and early 1970s and played on hit records by soul recording stars such as percy sledge wilson pickett and aretha franklin as well as on country rock songs by glenn frey levon helm eddie rabbitt and willie nelson. Muscle shoals sound rhythm section and the swampers.
The quartet s members initially began working under contract during the mid 60s at fame studio in muscle shoals al garnering the moniker the second fame gang. The muscle shoals rhythm section is a group of american studio musicians based in the northern alabama town of muscle shoals. He said in 2006 and also on the stranger in town episode of the us radio show in the studio with redbeard a few years earlier.