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Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section is credited on 726 releases across 122 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1967–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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726

Credits

122

Albums

7

Decades active

596

In collections

Biography

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A.K.A. Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section and The Swampers. A group of session musicians who left Fame Recording Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the late 1960s to build Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama. The founders are Barry Beckett (keyboards), Roger Hawkins (drums), Jimmy Johnson (guitar) and David Hood (bass). They became known as The Muscle Shoals Sound Rhythm Section and were the first rhythm section to own a studio and eventually run their own publishing and production companies. They appeared on more than 500 recordings and more than 75 gold and platinum hits.

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Credited work

726 releases · 122 albums · active 1967–2026

  • Production · 541
  • Performance · 160
  • Other credits · 157
  • Mastering · 4

Studios: Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Pampa Studios · Nimbus Nine Studios · Malaco Studios

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