FAME Recording Studios, the first successful professional recording studio in Alabama, was established in 1959. World renowned for creating "Southern Rock", Southern Soul and "Country Soul, an almagamation known as "the Muscle Shoals Sound",FAME has worked with everyone from Aretha Franklin to Tom Jones to ZZ Hill. In the last 40-plus years, FAME has been involved in recording or publishing records that have sold over 300 million copies world wide.

"FAME and Muscle Shoals have what the world is looking for." - Bill Lowery, Sweet Soul Music

"More than any other locale or individual, Muscle Shoals has changed my life ... musically and every which way" - Jerry Wexler, Rhythm and the Blues