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Watch: Muscle Shoals 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the ‘Singing River’ as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions upon millions of copies. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, he brought black and white together in Alabama’s cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations while giving birth to the ‘Muscle Shoals Sound’ and ‘The Swampers’. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Gregg Allman, Clarence Carter, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Bono, and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals’ magnetism, mystery, and why it remains influential today..
Plot: In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, locals came together and spawned some of the greatest music of all time: “Mustang Sally,” “I Never Loved a Man,” “Wild Horses,” and many more. During the most incendiary periods of racial hostility, white folks and black folks came together to create music that would last for generations and gave birth to the incomparable “Muscle Shoals sound.”
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	7.8/10 Votes: 3,985
	97% | RottenTomatoes
	75/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 52 Popularity: 4.464 | TMDB

Reviews:

Excellent Lesson in American Music History with an Emotional Punch
My only regret upon watching “Muscle Shoals” is that I somehow missed it when it was first released, some seven and a half years ago.

I grew up in the 70s, and occasionally heard about Muscle Shoals and the Swampers (they even got a mention in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama”). But even after turning to music as an avocation, I never learned the story of what made Muscle Shoals special. This documentary lays out the human side of the Muscle Shoals story in beautiful, often emotional detail.

At the heart of the story is Rick Hall, who grew up a dirt poor hillbilly in northern Alabama and had more than his share of tragedy and betrayal. Through sheer determination and a perfectionist’s sensibility in the studio, he clawed his way to becoming one of the most consequential producers and studio owners of the 20th century.

Hall’s original studio band, the Swampers, features as another “character” in the film. The Swampers became one of the most sought after back up bands in the 60s and 70s, and played on some of the most memorable hits of the era. What the viewer will find surprising is that these white country boys from northern Alabama backed some of the most soulful black music hits of the era.

The film also touches on the many musicians who recorded in Muscle Shoals, and features interviews with a number of them, including the Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin. The film gives a little too much time to the Stones, and the film never really explains why Bono keeps popping up, but overall, considering who was still alive at the time, it strikes a good balance.

Then, of course, there is the music, itself. All I can say here is that you should watch this with a good sound system.

My only disappointment, and the reason I don’t give it ten stars, is that we learn nothing about Rick Hall’s engineering secrets. What did he do technically to bring about that special, warm, Muscle Shoals sound? I would have enjoyed learning more about that.

But that omission didn’t detract from the film’s emotional punch. Ultimately, this is a story about tragedy and triumph, friendship and betrayal, and the combination of music and emotion occasionally brought a tear to my eye. Highly recommended.

P.S. I saw one reviewer comment disparagingly about a clip of Lynyrd Skynyrd concert footage that showed a Confederate battle flag in the background. I don’t know what the reviewer expected the filmmakers to do about that. The Confederate flag was used by more than one Southern rock band in the 70s and 80s, and it wouldn’t have made sense to just erase that from the historical record, nor would it have been practical, from a filmmaking standpoint. One can debate over what it meant to people at the time, but it was what it was.

“There was just something about that place…”
There’s a line in the Lynrd Skynrd song, ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ that goes: “Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers, And they’ve been known to pick a song or two”.

That’s what this documentary is about. Muscle Shoals is the unlikely name of a small Alabama town on the banks of the Tennessee River. Native American legend has it that ‘the river sings’, and has an influence on the people who live there and perform music. This story is largely about a man named Rick Hall who escaped a life of poverty to become the founder of Fame Records, bringing together a host of session musicians who would much later be dubbed by Duane Allman as ‘The Swampers’, in tribute to the local habitat of Muscle Shoals. The documentary traces the rise of Fame Records and the eventual dissolution of Rick Hall’s original session team when they joined Capital Records under the direction of Jerry Wexler.

Very similar to the story of Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, Fame Studios brought white and black musicians together at a time when there was still racial hostility in the country. It’s interesting to hear directly from artists like Clarence Carter and Wilson Pickett discuss their early days with Hall and his team, and how the music they recorded clicked with the general public to become highly enjoyable and entertaining. Other on screen musicians interviewed for this story include Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Percy Sledge and the late Aretha Franklin. Hall by the way, does credit Sam Phillips for his help in mentoring the early success of Fame Records.

There’s really no single category that the Muscle Shoals sound encompasses. You’ve got such diverse talent as Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Steve Winwood, Bono and Lynrd Skynrd who have all been influenced by the soulful, bluesy music that emanated from this small town since the late Sixties. The documentary is a wonderful tribute to some of the talent behind the talent that became big names in the music industry, in much the same manner as the legendary Funk Brothers contributed to the success of Motown during roughly the same era. For that story, you’ll have to look up the 2002 documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown”.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Documentary, Biography, History
Director Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier
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Actors Rick Hall, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 11 nominations
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