Rick Hall Has Died – Here’s Why You Should Care

January 9, 2018

Although this may not mean much to you at this moment, but music producer, record label CEO and owner, and ‘Fame Studio’ owner Rick Hall has recently died at the age of 85 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Here’s why you should care; Rick has been credited for being the father of the famous Muscle Shoals sound.

Much like Berry Gordy of Motown, Rick built an empire of influence and music that produced some of the finest songs ever recorded. Who recorded under the Muscle Shoals umbrella, Fame Records? How about Clarence Carter, Arthur Conley, Tommy Roe, Joe Tex, Candi Staton, Aretha, Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Otis Redding, Michael McDonald, The Gregg Allman Band, and Little Richard to name a few.

Rick was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1985, named the Producer of the Year for the World by Billboard magazine in 1971, and earned a Grammy Trustees Award in 2014.

Written by: Vipology Staff Writer

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