Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

CTL-PL-0156 · Place

VERIFIED evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

Combined Graph record U-02618 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0156. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

3614 Jackson Highway; the Swampers' studio

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• City: Sheffield, Alabama

Sources

• http://musictrail.una.edu/?p=139 (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

The University of North Alabama's Roots of American Music Trail page (tier 3) gives Muscle Shoals Sound Studio's address as 3614 Jackson Highway, Sheffield, and states 'The studio opened here in 1969 when the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (known as the Swampers) left FAME Recording Studios to start their own enterprise,' that Cher's 1969 album '3614 Jackson Highway' was made there, and that artists recording there afterwards included Leon Russell, Jimmy Cliff, Linda Ronstadt, Rod Stewart, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Willie Nelson and Boz Scaggs; the site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Establishes existence, recording-studio type, address, city, the 1969 opening, and the stored Swampers note (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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