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shoals

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Carter then went solo and began recording music with producer Rick Hall and Fame in Muscle Shoals, amid the late-’60s soul boom.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Shares of Sunrun, First Solar, Array Technologies, and Shoals Technologies all fell after the companies reported earnings this week.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

His direct, unadorned vocals on 1961’s “You Better Move On” started an explosion of gospel-inflected Muscle Shoals pop, from Jimmy Hughes’s “Steal Away” to his cousin Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Musically, the band is everywhere on this track; it’s Memphis again, it’s Muscle Shoals; the guitars shimmer, full of resonance.

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025

Shoals of tiny fish darted away from his hands.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer



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