Muscle Shoals
I just watched the documentary Muscle Shoals on Netflix.
I highly recommend it.
It's a remarkable history given this town had just 8K people (13K today).
It basically begins with some local teenagers learning how to become studio musicians from Rick Hall, a producer about ten years their senior who's determined to make it in the music business.
Their playing had a rawness to it ("we didn't know how to play smooth"). And the signature sound that developed was from closely mic-ing the drum and a prominent bass line.
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