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Muscle Shoals. Greg “Freddy” Camalier, dir. Magnolia Pictures 10634 (DVD), 2014.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2017

Christopher M. Reali
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , August 2017 , pp. 384 - 387
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References

1 Helen Keller's childhood home, Ivy Green, is in Tuscumbia, and the Wilson Dam, a cornerstone of the Tennessee Valley Authority, is in Muscle Shoals.

2 This quotation is taken from the cover of the 2014 DVD release of the film.

3 Barry Beckett passed away in June 2009.

4 Wolk Shenk, Joshua, “The End of ‘Genius,’” New York Times, 19 July 2014 Google Scholar, SR-6.

5 During April and May 1970, a feature story about Muscle Shoals by Arthur Whitman appeared under several titles in at least four sources; see Whitman, Arthur, “The Hustle at Muscle,” Boston Globe, 29 April 1970, 36–41 Google Scholar, 43. The 5 December 1970 issue of Billboard featured a multipage section devoted to Muscle Shoals, mostly written by Bill Williams; see “Music in Muscle Shoals,” Billboard, 5 December 1970, 45. Cashbox ran a twenty-five-page section on Muscle Shoals in August 1977, “The Sounds from Muscle Shoals,” Cashbox, 27 August 1977, 34–59. Record World devoted thirty pages to the tenth anniversary of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio; see “Record World Salutes the Tenth Anniversary of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio,” 19 May 1979.

6 Wiggins, Steve, “The Muscle Shoals Sound's Heart BEATS Stronger Than Ever . . . FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio Breaking News,” Quadcities Daily, 26 November 2013, http://quadcitiesdaily.com/?p=137093.Google Scholar

7 Light, Alan, “The Sound of the Shoals Gets Its Due,” New York Times, 21 July 2015 Google Scholar, C1.

8 For commentary about popular music documentaries that blur the lines between entertainment and history, see Flory, Andy, “20 Feet From Stardom: Entertainment or History?” Musicology Now, 21 February 2014 Google Scholar, http://musicologynow.ams-net.org/2014/02/20-feet-from-stardom-entertainment-or.html.