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Muscle Shoals - Independent Lens

WKAR Public Media | By editor
Published April 19, 2014 at 10:51 AM EDT
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Mon. Apr. 21 - 9pm - 23.1 WKAR-HD | The story of Muscle Shoals, Ala., and how it midwifed classic songs and albums.

The story of Muscle Shoals, Ala., and how it midwifed classic songs and albums from such artists and acts as Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Wilson Pickett and Lynyrd Skynyrd; and became, in the words of Keith Richards, "rock and roll heaven."
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