Day: August 26, 2008

C. S. Fuqua, author of Music Fell on Alabama, offered this remembrance of record producer Jerry Wexler: “Jerry Wexler is known to many around the Shoals as the ‘Godfather of Muscle Shoals Music.’ Wexler died on August 15, 2008, at age 91 of complications related to congestive heart failure. Had it not been for Wexler, Muscle Shoals may never have become known as the ‘Hit Capital of the World'” …