Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio is an American recording studio in Sheffield, Alabama, formed in 1969 by four session musicians known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.

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Type: Building
Description: recording studio in Sheffield, Alabama, USA
Also known as: “3614 Jackson Highway, Sheffield” and “3614 Jackson Hwy., Sheffield, Alabama”
Address: 3614 North Jackson Highway, Sheffield, AL

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rosenbaum House and Southgate Mall.

Rosenbaum House

Museum

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The Rosenbaum House is a single-family house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built for Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum in Florence, Alabama, United States. Rosenbaum House is situated 2 miles north of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

Southgate Mall

Shopping center

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Southgate Mall is open-air shopping center in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Around 2005 the inside of the mall closed and the businesses that remained moved to the outside of the mall. Southgate Mall is situated 1½ miles south of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

Sheffield High School

School

Sheffield High School is the sole public secondary education institution in Sheffield, Alabama. Sheffield High School is situated 1 mile west of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sheffield and Muscle Shoals.

Sheffield

Town

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Sheffield is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area. The population was 9,403 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 9,307 in 2023.

Muscle Shoals

Town

Muscle Shoals is the largest city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. It is located on the left bank of the Tennessee River in the northern part of the state and, as of the 2020 census, Muscle Shoals had a population of 16,275. Muscle Shoals is situated 2 miles southeast of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

Florence

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Florence is a city located in and the county seat of Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, in the state's northwestern corner. It has a population of 40,184 in the 2020 census.

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

Categories: music museum and recording studio
Location: Colbert, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

34.76791° or 34° 46′ 5″ north

Longitude

-87.67404° or 87° 40′ 27″ west

Elevation

574 feet (175 metres)

Open location code

866JQ89G+59

OpenStreetMap ID

way 465963114

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

11496110

Wikidata ID

Q679366

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Spanish—“Muscle Shoals Sound Studio” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”
French: “The Muscle Shoals studios”
German: “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”
Hebrew: “אולפן מאסל שולס סאונד”
Italian: “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”
Japanese: “マッスル・ショールズ・サウンド・スタジオ”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”
Portuguese: “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”
Russian: “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”
Spanish: “Muscle Shoals Sound Studio”

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