So they play a Skynyrd song in the trailer...but say nothing about them in the discription or in the trailer...don't name them...whatsup with that?
"Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers/And they've been known to pick a song or two"
It could he argued That song/ and by extension the band put Muscle Shoals on the map with the ordinary public
Curious that it pretty much left them out
It was Booker T and the MGS, as well Aretha Franklin,Rufus and Carla Thomas and many other that made Muscle Shoals. I'm glad to hear that a documentary has been made about MS, though, because it's long overdue anyway, considering how huge their contribution to musical history is, and the great albums of music that were recorded there.
shareBooker T. and the MG's, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, dozens more, were up the road at STAX in Memphis. The towns are close together, and some swapping back and forth was done. Aretha only recorded "Never Loved A Man" at Muscle Shoals, then she went home. Jerry Wexler then got the Muscle Shoals rhythm section and horns to come to New York. Aretha recorded some of her most famous early work with the Muscle Shoals musicians, but they did it in New York.
Yodi
I couldn't agree more! I would have never known about MS if it wasn't for Skynyrd. Hell they even mention it in song by name. I can't believe a whole movie about the place without Skynyrd! What a travesty!
shareWatch the movie. Skynyrd IS mentioned - multiple times. I'd say where and when but that would require spoilers.
shareDon't leave when the credits start to roll. That's all I can tell ya.
You must not have seen the actual film because the Skynyrd band and its association with Muscle Shoals is duly noted.
Incidentally, as many times as I have heard Sweet Home Alabama, I didn't catch the reverence to The Swampers at all, but I sure knew all of the players years before Skynyrd on records by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter and many others. Muscle Shoals and Fame Studios were legendary long before Skynyrd walked through the door.
Making "Sweet Home Alabama" the state song has been debated for years. (I believe that the state song is still "Stars Fell on Alabama".) The mention of Neil Young's "Southern Man" and the political touch mentioning the governor and Watergate have probably prevented that from being seriously considered. Different, new verses might have made a difference, but now that Lynyrd Skynard is gone, that probably won't happen. The controversial parts of the lyrics probably will prevent "Sweet Home Alabama" from ever becoming the state song.
Yodi
"It could he argued That song/ and by extension the band put Muscle Shoals on the map with the ordinary public
Curious that it pretty much left them out"
Apparently you haven't seen the movie.....LS is featured prominently in it!
You could argue that LS made Muscle Shoals but you would be dead wrong.....Aretha and Pickett put them on the map years before the Skynyrd came around.
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I agree - Lynyrd Skynyrd didn't make Muscle Shoals but they popularised the studio in "Sweet Home Alabama", bringing it to the attention of a much broader audience such as myself.
I can't wait to watch this movie!
Watched it: fantastic! Skynyrd features in it - as someone else said don't miss the end and the closing credits.
shareA group of my friends went to a screening the other night--I was doing something else, but I ended up wikiing this.
The reason is that this film is focused on Rick Hall. From what I understand, The Swampers (named by Wrecking Crew member Leon Russell) left FAME to form their own studio, MSSS, down the road from FAME. There apparently were as many as eight studios in Muscle Shoals at the peak of the hey day? or the chasing it post-hey day? I wouldn't know.
I wonder what people could talk about whithout having seen the movie. What a waste of time. Go see the movie before pestering the forums.
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This film addresses "Sweet Home Alabama" and your other concerns. But Muscle Shoals would have been on the map with the ordinary public with or without Lynyrd Skynyrd's help.
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