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Muscle Shoals

Directed by Greg “Freddy” Camalier
USA, 2012, 102 mins.
Language: English
Genre: Documentary

Saturday, March 16 at 1:30pm
This show is sold out, but we are setting up an alternate screening room at the Chilmark School. Tickets for this screening will be $5 for members, $10 for non-members. If you are interested in tickets email boxoffice@tmvff.org.

Located along 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 in the millions. At its heart is FAME Studios founder Rick Hall, who overcame crushing poverty and staggering tragedies to bring black and white together to create the music which would give birth to the “Muscle Shoals sound.” Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Gregg Allman, Clarence Carter, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Bono, and others bear witness to the magnetism and mystery of Muscle Shoals—and why it remains influential today.