"I never tried it. The subject of this documentary is the musical recording history in Muscle Shoals, Alabama - a very small town near the scenic Tennessee River. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Hood’s bass tone is round, warm and smooth. I liked the way that works.". The musician and producer worked on recordings by Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones and George Michael, Last modified on Fri 6 Sep 2019 14.10 BST. He'd go on to play those '73 Fenders on sessions at Muscle Shoals Sound, the Sheffield studio the Swampers opened in 1969, on recordings by stars like Rod Stewart, Bob Seger and Art Garfunkel. It took a lot of adjustment at first, but after we got used to it, it got really good.". ", In recent years, he's favored newer, Chicago-made Lakland basses that are as close to his '61 Jazz as anything he's ever found, he says, "The neck is the right radius, the control knobs are the same. The life and times of the super successful American soft-rock band, Eagles. So, Billy gave a call back to Terry Woodford, and the rest is history. "The neck was shaped different, the tone controls and volume were different," Hood says. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

9,181 listeners. A look at the roots of the historic music scene in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon featuring the music of iconic groups such as The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and The Mamas and the Papas.

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“People have always asked, ‘Why did it happen here? A recording artist in his own…, Patterson Hood (born Mar 24, 1964) is best known as the leader of the Drive-By Truckers. Belle Adair’s first record, The Brave and…, Adam's House Cat was a band from Muscle Shoals, Alabama that was fronted by Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood, the now singers/guitarists of the….

A year later, the original studio was listed on America’s National Register of Historic Places. The studio, which is a…

Hood still has the receipt for his first bass, too. He played guitar for Lulu, Bobby Womack and Boz Scaggs, and engineered many classic tracks, including George Michael’s Careless Whisper and Wilson Pickett’s Don’t Know My Love. "We must have left it for about five minutes and some thieves got into it," Hood says now, "and stole my bass and several guitars that belonged to Steve Winwood, including one Eric Clapton had given him.

Billy’s start in the music industry came rather unconventionally. Collaboration between Lenny LeBlanc and Pete Carr.

Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now. His most moving recollections include his tragic childhood, the conflicts and successes of his career, and the absence of racism within the recording studios despite its strong presence outside of it.In addition to being a fine documentary, the audioplay of the recordings of the time, especially the soul music, are worth the admission price. After Hood's bass was swiped, Blackwell instructed Hood to go purchase a new bass at New York retailer Manny's Music. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. The Swampers are enshrined in both those places. Along with “Friends in Low Places,” Billy also recorded Alan Jackson’s first hit, “Blue Blooded Woman” and shortly after, received a thank you from Alan himself for recording it. A month later, as Billy was still looking for a job, he remembered the benefits of that same on-the-job training, and how they would assist in payment if he could just get someone to hire him. My name is Cory,I write songs. One of those amps was later recovered from a pawn shop. Hood says the only other gear stolen from him during his 50 year-plus career is two amps from a storage space break-in around 2011. These avenues and music ventures have brought him to where he is now, owning and recording in Wishbone Studios. The group closed the Jackson Highway studio in 1979, moving the operation to 1000 Alabama Avenue. Now, there’s a new effort to try and reunite him with the actual instrument.

The original Muscle Shoals studio was sold in 1979, Muscle Shoals relocating to a larger building at 1000 Alabama Avenue. Since Billy Lawson was 8 years old, music has been the fuel to his existence. Terry Woodford, Wishbone’s original owner, needed a helping hand on a project but lacked the room to hire Billy.

“The name was based on all the water around here, the Tennessee River, you know that kind of thing – and it has inspired a lot of our music. Sonic Highways commemorates the Foo Fighters 20th anniversary by documenting the eight-city recording odyssey that produced their latest, and eighth, studio album. ", Muscle Shoals musician David Hood, third from right, is shown playing his 1961 Fender Jazz bass with the band Traffic in 1972.

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio is a recording studio in Sheffield, Alabama formed in 1969 by four session musicians called The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (and affectionately called The Swampers) who had left Rick Hall's nearby FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals to create their own recording facility. He…, Wallace Daniel Pennington (16 November 1941 -) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and sometime guitar player who co-wrote many soul…, Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American R&B and soul singer. Documentary about the Funk Brothers, a group of Detroit musicians who backed up dozens of Motown artists.