![]() ![]() ![]() In 1966, Atlantic Records released Percy Sledge's immortal "When a Man Loves a Woman," engineered by Jimmy Johnson at Quinvy Studios in Sheffield, AL. Initially in 1966, bass duties were given to Albert "Junior" Lowe, with the inimitable Tommy Cogbill claiming the bass chair in late 1966 bassist David Hood, who began recording at Fame as a trombonist, came on board as the first-call bass player at Fame in 1967 when Etta James recorded "Tell Mama" there. Keyboard player Barry Beckett, who had arrived at Fame during sessions for James & Bobby Purify's "I'm Your Puppet" (1966), replaced Oldham. Drummer Roger Hawkins and guitarist Jimmy Johnson anchored the second Fame rhythm section, along with keyboard conjurer Linden "Spooner" Oldham, who joined frequent songwriting partner Dan Penn at Chips Moman's American Studio in Memphis in 1967. The rhythm section unpretentiously cultivated their Southern roots, developing a definitive country-soul-tinged "Muscle Shoals sound." With an almost clairvoyant sense about the unique requirements of recording artists and producers with whom they worked, as a team they adapted that sound to fit each session, conjuring it into a hitmaking capability admired internationally for an impeccable series of musical home runs, which were crafted with consummate musicianship and stylistic authenticity into a legacy of recordings of astonishing depth and durability.īy 1965, Fame Studio producer Rick Hall had hired the core of his second full-time rhythm section culled from the core of local Shoals-area bands, Dan Penn's Mark V and the Del-Rays. ![]() The quartet's members initially began working under contract during the mid-'60s at Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals, AL, garnering the moniker "the Second Fame Gang." Upon independence from Fame in the spring of 1969, the group reemerged as the autonomous Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section ( Roger Hawkins, Jimmy Johnson, Barry Beckett, and David Hood, often affectionately called "the Swampers") is widely regarded as one of the most important American recording studio "house bands" emerging in the golden age of rock and soul. ![]()
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