Tours
History BuffFAME Recording Studios
Under $25Take a guided tour of Studios A and B, where Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and Etta James recorded.
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Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio is a tour in Sheffield, AL, part of the North Alabama guide. Cost: $25 to $50.
3614 N. Jackson Hwy · Sheffield, AL
Why you should go…
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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