FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama

The front door of FAME Recording Studios carries a boast that might sounds exaggerated until you learn who actually walked through it. A sign proclaims: “Through these doors walk the finest Musicians, Songwriters, Artists and Producers in the World.” Among the hundreds of artists who have recorded at the studio over the last six decades are Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Duane and Gregg Allman, Jason Isbell, and Demi Lovato. Founded in 1959 as Florence Alabama Music Enterprises, FAME started off above a drugstore in the city of Florence before owner Rick Hall moved it about ...