"Muscle Shoals" Can music reflect landscape? Can a spiritual terrain seep into the soul of a people through music? These are some of the questions asked in the documentary, "Muscle Shoals," a must-see documentary for any rock n' roll history connoisseur. There's not just something in the water in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a small town by the Tennessee River. To hear it told by the doc and its many legendary music figure testimonials (Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones and many more), Alabama's seminal music town not only has soul, funk, rhythm, blues and spiritual pathos coursing through its veins, it's permeated deep in the soil, running through the water and flowing in the air. And while the sentiment seems a little hokey and precious (especially when delivered by U2's overly earnest, semi-pretentious Bono who lays on the mythologizing rather typically thick), over the course of 110 minutes "Muscle Shoals" delivers a litany of evidence that's difficult to argue with. Locales tied...
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