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 ...

Tucked just inside the north-west corner of Alabama, Muscle Shoals became an unlikely musical hub. The state resisted integration and, into the mid-Sixties, openly espoused racial segregation despite ...

The film opens with gorgeous landscape shots that frame Colbert County as a sort of magical foundation for the music it produced - from an unlikely group of sharecroppers' sons, like FAME founder and ...

MUSCLE SHOALS — A documentary focusing on FAME Recording Studios founder Rick Hall and the birth of the “Muscle Shoals sound” will be featured at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

FLORENCE — It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah to rave reviews and later this month Shoals residents will have a chance to see the documentary that tells the story of the rise of the ...

The 11th edition of the Ponderosa Stomp kicks off 7 p.m. Thursday with a screening of the documentary Muscle Shoals at the Contemporary Arts Center (900 Camp St., 504-528-3800). The film takes an ...