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Back in the spotlight… Doing what they do best…
By Steve Wiggins
MUSCLE SHOALS – Swampers David Hood and Jimmy Johnson, along with a slew of A-List musicians, will perf orm on The David Letterman Show in New York this Thursday.
Sure, f olks around The Shoals who are in some way connected with the music business knew the movie, “MUSCLE SHOALS”, was going to be special.
It is the story of Rick Hall and an amalgam of unlikely guitar pickers, drummers and ‘good-old-boys’ who turned our little corner of nowhere into “The Hit Recording Capitol of The World”.
As f or Hood and Johnson, these f ellas, along with Roger Hawkins and Barry Beckett, bolted f rom the environs of Hall’s FAME Studios and f or David Ho o d & Jimmy Jo hnso n med their own powerhouse recording empire, Muscle Shoals Sound Studios.
“MUSCLE SHOALS” chronicles this most-unlikely of success stories. It ac complished a lot more than just memorialize a portion of our area’s musical history.
The f ilm has injected new lif e into the storied cache’ of these artist’s care ers… Not that they have been sitting around in ‘idle’ f or all these years. Quite the contrary, as Thursday night’s perf ormance on CBS will illustrate.
The guys will be joined on the Letterman Stage by music-legend Candy Staton, who will be some of the music f eatured in “MUSCLE SHOALS”.
Thursday night’s perf ormance will also f eature Grammy-Winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Spooner Oldham on keyboards.
Rounding out the band are two of The Shoals’ best known artists of today, Rick Hall Grammy-Winner, John Paul White and Jason Isbell – along with some of the Late Show Band members.
The show airs at 10:35pm Thursday night. A big turnout is expected at the viewing party over at Swampers Lounge at the Shoals Marriott in Florence.
The evening will get started with some great tunes f rom another of The Shoals’ f avorites, The Fiddleworms”.
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