Title: Music fell on Alabama : the muscle shoals sound that shook the world /
Authors: Fuqua, Christopher S., 1956-
Publisher: NewSouth Books,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Sound recording industry Alabama Muscle Shoals History.; Popular music History and criticism; Musicians Alabama.
Contents: Alabama's music muscle. Prelude to fame ; Fame, the first time around ; A second shot at fame ; Bringing the Shoals to the world ; Splinters ; Getting a piece of the rock ; Cooperation and disintegration ; Growth and turbulence ; More than money : a different measure of success ; Today's music ain't got the same Shoals -- Stars who've risen from Alabama. Alabama ; Jimmy Buffett ; Nat King Cole ; William Levi Dawson ; The Delmore Brothers ; W.C. Handy ; Emmylou Harris ; Erskine Hawkins ; Sonny James ; Hugh Martin ; Sam Phillips ; Sun Ra ; Martha Reeves ; Lionel Richie ; Toni Tennille ; Dinah Washington ; Hank Williams.