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Critic Christy Lemire
rated 8

New interviews with music superstars including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Steve Winwood and Alicia Keys provide some insight and eye-opening anecdotes.

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
rated 6

It’s refreshing, for example, to see Jagger and Richards talk at length about the often-overlooked country-soul crooner Arthur Anderson...

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Chris Michael
rated 8

This affectionate and informative documentary muses on the origins of the Muscle Shoals Sound... and the legacy of its success...

Read full review at The Guardian

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Bono
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Jimmy Cliff
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Gregg Allman
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Edward King
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In the unlikeliest of places, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a town nestled alongside the Tennessee River, a group of talented locals came together to create some of the most iconic and enduring music of all time. Despite the racial tensions simmering in the Deep South, black and white musicians merged their talents to give birth to the incomparable "Muscle Shoals sound." Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios, overcame poverty and tragedy to bring together the likes of Greg Allman, Clarence Carter, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge and others. Their music would go on to influence generations and become the stuff of legend.

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