Celebrate the Alabama studio that united black and white to create music for the generations.

Muscle Shoals, Alabama, is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music. At its heart is Rick Hall, founder of FAME Studios, who brought black and white together in Alabama’s cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the “Muscle Shoals sound” and the Swampers, the house band at FAME. In this joyful film, Greg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals’ magnetism and mystery. This program airs with the short film “Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story.”