R.I.P. Rick Hall.
Rick was responsible for setting up FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. That Muscle Shoals sound was crucial to Soul.
Rick’s first success was with Arthur Alexander with his recording of the brilliant You’d Better Move On – which was so successfully covered by the Rolling Stones. But he went on to work with the likes of Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and Arthur Conley.
Rick Hall, a producer famous for his contribution to the Muscle Shoals sound, has died at 85.
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