Muscle Shoals News

Results are in for the 2012 Grammy Awards are in and the South has won big. Rebirth Brass Band took home their first Grammy for "Best Regional Roots Album," "Rebirth of New Orleans." The album was released by independent New Orleans-based Basin Records The Civil Wars were also first-time Grammy Winners for their debut album "Barton Hollow," which ... (more)

When most Tennessee Valley residents yearn for fresh vegetables in the winter, a trip to the grocery or produce market is needed to satisfy their desire.

Whiskey River Saloon, formerly Club Fire, is up and running and this weekend they deliver a 'one-two punch'. Friday night they'll be hosting the band, Southside, featuring members of Lillian Axe, Jason Turner Band, Lambotomy, Cledus Snow and Full Moon Circus and then following up Saturday night with Hillbilly Delux.

MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is asking the Legislature to create a limited number of charter schools.

IT was fitting that Paul Carrack walked on stage moments after the late great Sam Cooke's voice had faded away over the sound system.

Rick Hall and Billy Sherrill were a couple of Alabama boys in their teens when they started writing songs.

When you call Grammy-winning producer John Chelew, the man behind John Hiatt's career-resurrecting Bring The Family , you've got to want to be real.

If you go What: Alabama Shakes When: 9 p.m. Saturday Where: Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399 Cost: Sold Out foxtheatre.com Behind nearly every story of an overnight success is a longer story of how they reached the turning point.

A federal judge today sentenced a Muscle Shoals man to 28 months in prison for taking part in a health care fraud totaling more than $3 million in connection to a hospice care program he operated, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Patrick Maley and Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Special ... (more)

The Drive-by Truckers frontman lives in Potterytown, next door to a proposed shopping center anchored by Walmart on the eastern edge of downtown Athens.

His focus was on the musical sights and sounds, as you might expect, from Huntsville's Big Spring Jam music festival to the famous recording studios of Muscle Shoals.

It's safe to say certain things about the Muscle Shoals, Ala. quintet Lauderdale feel familiar if you're acquainted with the "Muscle Shoals Sound" or any of the music hailing from that corner of Alabama from about 1972 onward.

A former University of North Alabama tennis player has been cleared of rape and sodomy charges.

The way singer Brittany Howard recounts things, most folks in Alabama tend to like both kinds of music: country and western.

Muscle Shoals, AL - A Colbert County Grand Jury has declined to continue a case against a University of North Alabama student-athlete. The group passed a no bill on rape and sodomy charges that were pressed against 20 year old Corey Griffin back in September.

In the living room of the small white house that Alabama Shakes guitarist Heath Fogg and bassist Zac Cockrell call home in Madison, Alabama, singer Brittany Howard sits picking at an acoustic guitar.

The Innovation Depot has begun work on its expansion project, scheduled to be completed in December.

Etta James was one of the great soul divas, with a huge voice that could grind or soar, and a life full of travail, much of it self-produced. Ms.

Singer Etta James has passed away at the age of 73, succumbing to complications of Leukemia at a hospital in Southern California this morning.

Alabama Shakes is a diamond-in-the-rough that promises musical riches to follow.