603 Avalon Avenue
Muscle Shoals

Tours offered Monday – Friday
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Admission is charged

FAME, established in 1959, was the first successful professional recording studio in Alabama and is the birthplace of the famous Muscle Shoals Sound. Studio owner/producer Rick Hall used proceeds from Arthur Alexander’s 1961 hit “You Better Move On” to open the studio at its present location. The talents of the studio’s session musicians, dubbed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (also known as the Swampers) and Muscle Shoals Horns, attracted musical artists of all genres. Rhythm and blues classics recorded by Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Clarence Carter, Otis Redding, Etta James and others drew world-wide attention to FAME. Pop artists Liza Minelli, Tom Jones, Little Richard and the Osmonds brought their talents to Hall, who also produced some of the nation’s best country artists, including Shenandoah, Mac Davis, Jerry Reid and Darryl Worley. During the studio’s half-century history, releases from FAME have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide. The legacy continues today with recordings of the best new pop, rock and country music, including Dylan LeBlanc, Band of Horses, Angela Hacker, Jason Isbell, Drive-by Truckers, Jamey Johnson, Gary Nichols and Ugli Stick.
For more information
256-381-0801
www.fame2.com

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