"Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers. And they've been known to pick a song or two" --Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sweet Home Alabama. An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed "the Swampers." Some of the greatest names in rock, R&B and blues laid tracks in the original, iconic concrete-block building--the likes of Cher, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rolling Stones and … [Read more...] about Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music by Carla Jean Whitley @inkstainedlife