Rooms Where the Walls Came Down, Part 2: Stax, Muscle Shoals, and Minton's Playhouse

Podcast: Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music · Thomas Stubbs

Opublikowano: 2026-09-22

Muscle Shoals, Alabama, January 1967. Jerry Wexler brings Aretha Franklin, the daughter of the most famous Black preacher in America, to FAME Studios to record with four white session men she has never met, in a region where the Klan is a functioning organization. She walks in skeptical. The Swampers start playing. The skepticism ends before the first take is finished, and "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" makes her the Queen of Soul. This is the second of two episodes about the rooms where the recording industry's segregated shelf system stopped working, and...