FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF) -The Muscle Shoals Songwriter Festival is back for its third year. A nonprofit organization called the Muscle Shoals Songwriters Foundation puts on the festival to celebrate ...

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 ...

SHEFFIELD, Ala. (WHNT) — Muscle Shoals is renowned for its musical background that has shaped the area’s identity. This was celebrated with a concert designed to recognize the long history of sounds ...

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 ...

MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (WAFF) - Natives of the Tennessee Valley are working to preserve the history of enslaved African Americans who were tied to the land along the Muscle Shoals of the Tennessee River.

The terrific documentary “Muscle Shoals” warmly spotlights America’s legendary music recording locale, the Tennessee River town of Muscle Shoals, Ala. Director Greg “Freddy” Camalier skillfully, ...

Aretha Franklin and Paul Simon. Otis Redding and Hank Williams Jr. Duane Allman and Wilson Pickett. These artists that might not seem to have anything in common have one major thing in common: their ...

At one time in the Shoals’ history, it might not have been uncommon to see a horse-drawn wagon crossing the Tennessee River followed by Model T of the 1920s. DETAILS: A new traveling exhibit by the ...

The exhibit will be supported by a catalog, concert celebration, playlist and slate of opening weekend programs The museum's curatorial and creative teams conducted more than 50 hours of filmed ...

When 8 Track co-founders Noah Gordon and Jeff Goodwin started their music publishing company in Nashville, Tennessee, in late 2019, they didn’t anticipate a pandemic would shut the music industry down ...

SHEFFIELD, Ala. (WHNT) – On April Fool’s Day 1969, a little building on Jackson Highway opened its doors and subsequently changed the history of music — and Alabama — forever. Four young men, merely ...