The Man from Muscle Shoals: Rick Hall in Conversation with Peter Guralnick
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1h 14m
April 18, 2015 - As a producer, songwriter, and music business entrepreneur, Rick Hall helped shape the sound of American music. At his FAME studios, in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Hall produced legendary recordings by Mac Davis, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, and Jerry Reed. Renowned writer Peter Guralnick joins Hall in conversation about his career and his newly published autobiography, The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame.
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