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Hall of Fame

The Alabama Music Hall of Fame was created by the Alabama state legislature as a state agency in 1980. A 12,500 square foot (1,200 m²) exhibit hall opened in Tuscumbia in 1990. There is also an Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Tuscumbia is a city located in Colbert County, Alabama. ... This article is about the year. ...

Styles

Gospel music, especially the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, has been especially influential in the state (see also the Birmingham Sunlights). The Birmingham Sunlights is an African-American a cappella gospel singing group from the Birmingham, Alabama area. ...

The state also has a Celtic music scene, which has produced bands like Henri's Notions and the Birmingham-based harpist Cynthia Douglass, as well as a number of piping bands and promotional Celtic organizations. Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe. ... The harp is a stringed instrument which has its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. ...

Alabama is the leading state for Sacred Harp singing. The B. F. White Sacred Harp is published by the Sacred Harp Book Company of Samson, Alabama. The Sacred Harp/Shape Note Music and Cultural Center is located in Bessemer, Alabama. Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that took root in the Southern region of the United States. ... Samson is a city located in Geneva County, Alabama. ... Bessemer is an American city and suburb of Birmingham located in southwestern Jefferson County, Alabama. ...

Muscle Shoals

The studios of the Muscle Shoals area (Florence, Sheffield, Muscle Shoals, and Tuscumbia) figure prominently in the history of rock and R&B through the 1960s and 1970s. Fame Studios, Muscle Shoal Studios, Quinvy Studios, East Avalon Recorders/ClearDay Studio, Wishbone Studios, and more like them proved to be fertile ground for local musicians and international superstars alike. Artists like Aretha Franklin, Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Otis Redding recorded there. The studio house bands have even become famous as The Fame Gang, The Swampers, The Muscle Shoals Horns and The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. One broke out on their own to become major stars, known as Shenandoah. Florence is a city in Lauderdale County which is situated in the northwest corner of Alabama. ... Sheffield is a city located in Colbert County, Alabama. ... Muscle Shoals is a city located in Colbert County, Alabama, USA. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 11,924, and is included in The Shoals MSA. // Geography Muscle Shoals is located at 34°453 North, 87°391 West (34. ... Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an iconic American gospel, soul and R&B singer born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Detroit, Michigan. ... This article is about the rock band. ... Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American Southern rock band, described by All Music Guides Stephen Thomas Erlewine as the definitive Southern rock band, fusing the overdriven power of blues-rock with a rebellious, Southern image and a hard rock swagger. ... Otis Ray Redding, Jr. ... Shenandoah is an American country music band that a scored a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...

Musicians from Alabama

Members of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame

• Alabama (band) - Country superstar band, based on Fort Payne
• Nat King Cole - Jazz and R&B musician/songwriter, born in Montgomery
• The Commodores - Soul/funk group formed in Tuskegee
• William Levi Dawson - composer, organizer of the Tuskegee School of Music, from Anniston, Alabama
• Delmore Brothers - from Elkmont, Alabama
• Joe L. Frank - country music promoter from Mt. Rozell
• Rick Hall - record producer from Franklin County
• W.C. Handy - father of the blues, Born in Florence
• Erskine Hawkins - big band leader
• Sonny James - Early country star, born in Hacklebug
• James Joiner - founder of Tune Recording Studio, songwriter, from Florence
• Jake Hess - gospel singer from Limestone County
• Buddy Killen - record producer and founder of Dial Records, executive at Tree Publishing
• Louvin Brothers - influential close harmony group, from Section
• Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section - renowned studio band, consisting of Jimmy Johnson, guitar, Roger Hawkins, drums, David Hood, bass, and Barry Beckett, keyboards
• Dan Penn - singer, songwriter & record producer, from Vernon
• Sam Phillips - founder of Sun Records, born in Florence
• Carly Putnam - songwriter from Princeton
• Martha Reeves - Motown lead singer, Born in Eufaula
• Jimmie Rodgers - Early country star, born in Geiger
• Billy Sherrill - Country producer, with 74 top 10 hits, born in Phil Campbell
• Percy Sledge - 1960s soul star, born in Leighton
• Dinah Washington - Jazz and blues singer, born in Tuscaloosa
• Jerry Wexler - New Yorker with Atlantic Records, responsible for the rise of Muscle Shoals
• John T. "Fess" Whatley - music educator, worked with the Jazz Demons, the first jazz band in Birmingham
• Hank Williams - Country music pioneer, born in Georgiana
• Tammy Wynette - Country singer - Lived in Red Bay

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Other notable musicians from Alabama

• Hank Ballard - Early rock songwriter, wrote "The Twist", lived in Bessemer
• Bo Bice - Runner-up, American Idol Season 4
• Bibi Black - Trumpeter from Huntsville
• Blind Boys of Alabama - Legendary gospel group, based in Talladega
• Brother Cane - Alternative musicians, based in Birmingham
• Jimmy Buffett - Popular singer/songwriter, from Mobile
• Larry Byrom - Rock guitarist, from Huntsville
• Clarence Carter - R&B musician and songwriter, Born in Montgomery
• Nell Carter - Broadway and TV, Born in Birmingham
• Seaborn McDaniel Denson - Sacred Harp teacher and composer
• Thomas Jackson Denson - Sacred Harp teacher and composer
• Cleveland Eaton - jazz musician from Birmingham
• Ronnie Eades - "Fame Gang", Muscle Shoals Horn,Saxophone, raised in Tarrant, Alabama]]
• Eddie Floyd - R&B singer, born in Montgomery
• Lionel Hampton - Jazz vibes pioneer, lived in Birmingham
• Emmylou Harris - Country singer/songwriter, Born in Birmingham
• Ty Herndon - Country singer, lives in Butler
• Taylor Hicks - winner, American Idol Season 5
• Charlie Hodge - Musician for Elvis Presley, member of the "Memphis Mafia", born in Decatur
• Alan Hunter - Original MTV "VJ", Born in Birmingham
• Merle Kilgore - Country musician, lived in Cullman
• Nicolette Larson - 1970s songwriter, lived in Birmingham
• Eddie Levert - Founding member of The O'Jays, born in Birmingham
• Shelby Lynne - Country music artist, lives in Jackson
• Maddox Brothers and Rose - Influential early country group, from Boaz
• Man or Astro-Man? - Surf rock revivalists, Auburn
• Brian McKnight - R&B singer and producer, Born in Huntsville
• Jim Nabors - Actor and singer of standards and gospel, born in Sylacauga
• Spooner Oldham - songwriter & keyboardist, born in Centre
• Wilson Pickett - R&B star, born in Prattville
• Lionel Richie - Singer/songwriter, see also Commodores, born in Tuskegee
• Sex Clark Five - Strum and drum, alternative rock from Huntsville
• Tommy Shaw - guitarist and singer from Montgomery
• Ruben Studdard - Winner of American Idol, Born in Birmingham
• Sun Ra - Jazz musician and composer, born in Birmingham
• Take 6 - Contemporary Gospel groum, from Huntsville
• The Temptations - four members: Eddie Kendricks (Union Springs), Paul Williams (Birmingham), Melvin Franklin (Montgomery), and Dennis Edwards (Birmingham)
• Toni Tennille - Half of '70s hitmakers Captain & Tennille, born in Montgomery
• Willie Mae "Big Momma" Thornton - Legendary blues and R&B artist, born in Ariton
• Thrasher Brothers - Seminal gospel group, based in Birmingham
• Hank Williams Jr. - Country music star, lived in Gadsden

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• Alabama Music Hall of Fame
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