Muscle Shoals Sound, the historic Alabama studio where The Black Keys recorded their Grammy-winning album Brothers, is featured in a new video from Oxford American's SoLost series. As with countless musicians who’d ventured there before them, The Black Keys were attracted to the legacy—and the atmosphere—of the studio. SoLost talks with Muscle Shoals owner Noel Webster about his work to "reclaim its original, irreproducible sound." Watch the piece and The Black Keys video shot at Muscle Shoals here.
Muscle Shoals Sound, the historic Alabama studio where The Black Keys recorded their multiple Grammy Award-winning Nonesuch album Brothers, is featured in a new, original video from Oxford American magazine's SoLost video series, which celebrates getting lost in the American South.
As with countless musicians who’d ventured to Muscle Shoals before them, The Black Keys were attracted to the legacy—and the atmosphere—of a studio where everyone from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones had done time. In the latest SoLost video, the series' producer/director Dave Anderson heads to the studio at 3614 Jackson Highway to get a sense of how that legacy was formed and what has come from it over these many years. Anderson does so by tracking down the man in charge, owner Noel Webster, for a fittingly late-night one-on-one.
Webster brought the studio "back to life," writes Anderson, "after it sat defunct for 20 years. He knows the history. He's a master of great analog recordings and the gear that can bring it to life: a kind of musical archeologist who's not only revived the place, but brought back all the equipment to help Muscle Shoals Sound reclaim its original, irreproducible sound."
Watch the video from the Oxford American's SoLost series, which includes clips from The Black Keys's "Too Afraid to Love You" video, shot and recorded live in studio at Muscle Shoals, here:
Watch the complete video for "Too Afraid to Live You" here:
To pick up a copy of Brothers, head to the Nonesuch Store, where orders include high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the album at checkout.
Free tickets for the Septemer 10 Virgin Mobile FreeFest concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, featuring sets from The Black Keys, Cee Lo Green, TV on the Radio, Patti Smith, and more become available tomorrow morning starting at 10 AM ET via Facebook.com/VirginMobileLive.
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