By Alli Patton There is a place in North Alabama where magic happens. The Muscle Shoals area has given life to some of ...

When bassist David Hood, the last living member of prolific session musicians Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, aka The Swampers, is at the studio, Hyde make sure he’s taken care of. “She’s the ...

The session musicians at the studio became known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, or the Swampers. In 1969, the four primary members left to form a competing studio just down the road ...

There are many unsung Muscle Shoals music greats, and Junior Lowe might be the most unsung of them all. He played guitar or bass on a pile of Shoals classics including Percy Sledge’s “When a ...