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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Sheffield, AL

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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

Take a guided tour of the 1969 studio where the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin and Bob Dylan recorded.

3614 N. Jackson Hwy · Sheffield, AL

About Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

Four session players known as the Swampers opened this studio in 1969 in a concrete block building that had been a coffin showroom. The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon and Lynyrd Skynyrd all recorded here. Guided tours last roughly 45 minutes and walk you through the rooms where those records were made. The Muscle Shoals Music Foundation runs it as a museum by day, and it still works as a recording studio at night.

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