![]() ![]() By hour five or six, it had really started to come together. “All of a sudden Keith would come up with a figure, and the band would just fall in around it. So I just took it upon myself to have the tape machine ready and get rolling as soon as they started getting good. On everything they did, they’d be going in all different directions for about two or three hours. “It took them some time to get in the groove. “The Stones came in, and they were a little rusty at first because they hadn’t been practicing on account of the tour,” Johnson told BMI. Johnson, who had expected to assist Miller, engineered the sessions. Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller was expected but never made it to Muscle Shoals. “The Muscle Shoals Studio was very special, though – a great studio to work in, a very hip studio, where the drums were on a riser high up in the air, plus you wanted to be there because of all the guys who had worked in the same studio.” ![]() “It worked very well: It’s one of Keith’s things to go in and record while you’re in the middle of a tour and your playing is in good shape,” said Charlie Watts in the book According to the Rolling Stones. tour when Keith Richards suggested they go to the studio. The Stones had a few days off during their 1969 U.S. The musicians were known as the Swampers, a term immortalized in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama.”Īfter the Stones sessions, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Elton John and other notable artists made the journey south to record at Muscle Shoals Sound. In 1969, four of FAME’s session musicians – keyboardist Barry Beckett, bassist David Hood, drummer Roger Hawkins and guitarist Jimmy Johnson – left to open Muscle Shoals Sound. Muscle Shoals had been a hotbed of great music since the early ‘60s when FAME studios, started by producer Rick Hall, churned out songs by Arthur Alexander, Wilson Pickett and Percy Sledge. 2-4, 1969 – they put down the basic tracks and live vocals on “Brown Sugar,” “Wild Horses” and “You Gotta Move” at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Ala. The Rolling Stones went to Alabama and recorded three songs that evoked the country, blues and R&B sound of the region. ![]() Recording studio in Florence, Alabama where the Stones recorded “Brown Sugar,”, “You Gotta Move” and “Wild Horses” in December 2-4 1969, all of which later released on STICKY FINGERS in 1971. ![]()
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