The Fame Gang Solid Gold from the Muscle Shoals

Right now I am listening to a record called Solid Gold from Muscle Shoals by a group known as the Fame Gang. Apparently they were the session musicians at Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama thus the Fame Gang (a name that is both lame and awesome). The album is a blend of funk, soul and jazz and the songs are all instrumental covers ranging from Sweet Caroline to It's Your Thing. I had never heard of the Fame Gang, Fame Recording Studios, or Muscle Shoals, Alabama but these guys are really great. It's a combo of four white guys and five black guys so it appears that Fame Recording Studios was doing the same thing as Stax Records in Memphis as far as integrating whites and blacks. Although Stax was clearly more famous than Fame since Stax was in Memphis. I find it weird that they would use the word Fame in naming the studio and band being from Muscle Shoals, Alabama and all. I can't imagine a whole lot of Fame coming from there. I sure as shit know we didn't experience a whole lot of it growing up in Tendon Sandbar, Mississippi.

Check 'em out:


Doing what you do in Muscle Shoals. Hanging out on an abandoned bridge.

Here's a sample:


Pretty Beast!! probably the most interesting thing to come out of Muscle Shoals since the name Muscle Shoals.