Props to you guys for giving this great documentary the attention it deserves.

Well, you're gonna have to tackle the Wrecking Crew next fellas.

Jimmy Cliff was Bob Marley before Bob Marley was Bob Marley.

@jenniferfoster1692

Ай бұрын

Yeah, I had no idea Jimmy Cliff released music in the US first! Very cool.

@bossfan49

Ай бұрын

Not really fair to say. Bob had been making music just as long. He came into Island Records right on the heels of Jimmy leaving. The Harder They Come came out in '72, Catch A Fire came out in '73.

@bossfan49

Ай бұрын

@@jenniferfoster1692 Desmond Dekker may have had the first reggae hit in the US with "Israelites" (1968)

@JB-Deadskins

Ай бұрын

@@bossfan49 Israelites is also on the Harder They Come soundtrack deluxe edition (not on the original soundtrack, but included on the bonus crucial Reggae 1968-1972). La and Che should react to the movie

@CANDOKNOWHOW

Ай бұрын

@@bossfan49Yeah, Bob had already been a hit maker in Jamaica with The Wailers, released their first in ‘64 with the original version of “One Love” and their really big Early Ska hit “Simmer Down”. Being raised in the US, reggae was a lot more elusive for me, but I do remember hearing the Jimmy Cliff tune “Wonderful World, Beautiful People” on the radio in the early 70’s, as well as Johnny Nash’s “I Can See Clearly Now” later on, which was everywhere when it came out. Unfortunately, I ended up hearing of Bob through Eric Clapton’s cover of “I Shot The Sheriff”, and it wasn’t until the early 80’s when I finally heard Bob, and really turned on to his great music after he had sadly passed.. but I don’t remember the radio ever playing him, and couldn’t even afford buying records till that time. I’ve always felt pissed that radio stifled so many great artists in that respect, and I completely freaked out about it when I finally got to dig deeper into James Brown, who I had only known from “I Got You”. So much great music from those times in the 60’s-70’s.. it’s really like the stars aligned and artists began competing with themselves moreso than with each other and truly started sharpening their A game.

This doc. in my opinion, it is the best music doc. that I have seen. Alica Keys voice makes the hair on my arms stand up and get goosebumps! Rick Hall had more than his share of horrible heart breaks! Thanks for sharing this, cannot wait for the next. As always, fellas excellent reaction!! It is much appreciated.🙂❤️🙏

@normandaubry

Ай бұрын

A Bob Dylan song sang by Alocia Keys with the Swampers at the backup band and Rick Hall at the board… that’s what I call a perfect combination

Thank you for taking the time to explore the great story of what is Muscle Shoal's, an informal institution of sound that has reached around the world!

This was such a great documentary… kudos to you guys for checking it out!! It’s history!!! 💙🙏🏻💙🎶🎼 Lovely reaction… as per usual… 😎😎

@earlfowler7873

Ай бұрын

Totally agree✌️❤

Just an FYI, the song Alicia Keys sings “Pressing On” is a song Bob Dylan wrote and recorded for his gospel album Saved which was recorded in Muscle Shoals. Not one of his most successful or appreciated albums, but to me it’s near perfect. Thanks for taking the time to react to this documentary. More people need to see this.

@stumblinharris2219

Ай бұрын

I love that album too. And I'm an atheist.

@danmayberry1185

Ай бұрын

A heathen myself, I put Serve Somebody up with his best. Even Slow Train has a spiritual feel. A great era for Bob.

@stumblinharris2219

Ай бұрын

The live DVD that came with the Trouble No More box set is fab. Such a great band and singers on the Saved tour

@bradd8937

Ай бұрын

I saw the Saved tour in Portland. Spooner Oldham played with him on that tour. Fred Tackett, later of Little Feat on guitar, Tim Drummond on bass and Jim Keltner on drums. Exceptional show.

@shirley3371

Ай бұрын

I feel the same . It's a beautiful album. It definitely stand outs as one of his greats, imo.

Thanks for doing this series.

Thanks so much guys for reacting to this. This has been my all time favorite documentary and almost everybody I know has never seen it.

Another great reaction to a great documentary! Keep up the good work!

Jimmy Cliff from Jamaica. Rick was both engineer and producer.

When they run through the albums they played on, it's staggering.

Great review guys! I thought I knew about Muscle Schoals but I was just scratching the surface. Bravo.

Terrific documentary about a MUCH overlooked and under appreciated time/place in music history! As a native Alabamian who lived “across the river” in Florence, it’s always been a source of pride for me! RIP Rick, Jimmy, Roger, Barry…you sure made us proud! I highly recommend y’all check out Greg Allman’s last solo album “Southern Blood” recorded at Fame with Rick shortly before both passed. (In fact Greg was too ill to complete a couple of vocal tracks) Try “My Only True Friend” and “Song for Adam”. Gives me chill bumps and a lump in my throat every time! Greg brought it back full circle and finished his career where Duane’s began…

@normandaubry

Ай бұрын

I always considered Roger to be one of the tops drummers of his time. Simply fabulous!

Great reaction guys. When I first saw this documentary a few years ago I was floored that one of my favorite vocalists, Jimmy Cliff, had recorded one of my favorite songs, “Sitting in Limbo,” with the Swampers. Truly amazing history down there.

Thanks for giving this doc the time it deserves. Wonderful reaction.

The Language of Music, The Story Of Tom Dowd one of the best engineers then producers in the biz, worked for Jerry Wexler at Atlantic recorded Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers so many jazz greats, amazing story!

Muscle Shoals was and still is a hidden gem thank you for doing this documentary I think all the artist who recorded there knew this was kinda like a secret little place they could go and record with some of the best session players that nobody knew about and get away from some of the bigwigs from the labels they were recording on and all the pressures of the big studios and just lay down some music and be themselves and do it their way and the results speak for them self being from Alabama and growing up on the Tennessee river I know just how special it isThank you guys for giving at the credit it is long over due for and Deserves .Roll Tide!

That was Jimmy Cliff who's hit The Harder They Come was the title track for the 1973 Jamaican movie in which he basically played a role based on his life.

Guys, thank you for reacting to this documentary. I think it is one of the best documentaries of all time. I would highly recommend the wrecking crew and sound city. The wrecking crew were similar to the swampers, but they were in Los Angeles.

@danmayberry1185

Ай бұрын

Yup. If you know a bassline well enough to hum it, it might be Carol Kaye's.

@randyallaben9900

Ай бұрын

Truth!

Thanks for sharing this, so much great music came out of this. Other documentaries worth checking out are The Wrecking Crew, Twenty Feet from Stardom, Rumble, Amazing Grace and Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.❤

Most fans are clueless as to what the engineer does.

Hey fellas! Your box of Rabbit Holes should be arriving next week! I knew the Swampers would leave you slack jawed!

The great Jimmy Cliff/ The Harder They Fall. 😊 and that’s Steve Winwood who headed up Traffic. He’s a blues rock genius too.

There are some engineers who became big producers, such as Alan Parsons (engineered Dark Side of the Moon and Atom Heart Mother, the Beatles Abbey Road and Let it Be), Geoff Emerick (engineer for the Beatles on Sergeant Pepper). Johnny Sandlin who played with the brothers Allman before they were the Allman Brothers, but played drums for Jaimoe on Duane's solo album demos, was working as an engineer at Fame, then Capricorn, and became a big producer as well. The king of the engineers turned producers is probably Glyn Johns who had massive success as engineer in the mid-60s on songs like (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, You Really Got Me, My Generation, then as a producer and engineer for albums like Who's Next, the Eagles's first 3 albums, he engineered Led Zeppelin's first album, too, and was both for most of the Rolling Stones's big albums. The Swampers were fairly unique as they were musicians, engineers, and producers all, and as you saw, they were involved in some of the most popular music of the last 60 years. Barry Beckett, keyboardist in the Swampers became a noted producer as well.

@michaelgray4964

Ай бұрын

Tom Dowd was absolutely legendary both as an engineer and producer. Check his Wiki, it will blow you away.

@alvarhanso6310

Ай бұрын

@@michaelgray4964 somehow left Tom Dowd out of my list, but definitely had a magic ear.

“Patches” was a huge huge hit that was in the Top 40 rotation.

Shows what Black and white people can do when they work together! 👍

Never get tired watching this amazing documentary. Everytime I learn something new. Thank you for sharing.

The Red Clay Strays are opening for Rolling Stones tonight in Boston. Give the Strays a listen, great new band out of Mobile Alabama

Great job responding to this documentary. You had some insightful things to say. The guy you missed the name of was Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star who made "The Harder They Come." I strongly recommend (again) that you next react to the "The T.A.M.I. Show," which completely captures the magic of everything that was happening in '65, including soul, rock and pop, headlined by the Rolling Stones and James Brown. It's fantastic.

Phenomenal documentary. I'm so glad they took the time to document all the great music that was made in Muscle Shoals, all the great local musicians, the Swampers & the Fame Gang, Rick Hall, and all the great artists who came to record there, to feel the magic. We the listeners greatly benefited. Thanks to La & Che for reacting to this.

Perfectly timed drop!

Not only was Muscle Shoals instrumental in producing all the hit records, there was The Wrecking Crew, kzread.info/dash/bejne/dWWmw6iBZpuwp6w.html who had one of the bass players CAROL KAYE kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJxt3NGIZNu7e6w.html

Drive past Fame studios four of five times a week .... Very unassuming place.. If you didn't already know you'd probably never know... Thanks for letting folks know fellas.... We love you guys down here..✌❤🎶🎸..!

You guys need to check out the documentary about The Wrecking Crew the musicians in Los Angeles that played on a lot of hit records in 60s and 70s thanks guys for all the great reviews love it❤

Cando Staton had a hit song with "young hearts run free" disco era. Jimmy Cliff was awesome, "Wonderful World, Beautiful People". You gotta do the Wrecking Crew next!

Thank you for showing the Muscle Shoals documentary on all the iconic music and bands that chose these studios to record songs that made music history!! I live about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals and for a long time I didn't even realize just how important Fame and the Jackson Highway (Muscle Shoals Sound) studios were!! This was not only entertaining, but educational as well!! Bravo, guys!! ❤❤

@danarussell1291

Ай бұрын

I live in Red Bay about the same distance as you do from Muscle Shoals!! I had a friend who was on the Fame Studio's song writing staff!!

"Brown Sugar" was written about Claudia Linnear, one of Leon Russell's backup singers.

The "human element" is what's gone from popular music today. Everything is computer-corrected. When it all sounds too perfect, the magic of the moment is lost. Muscle Shoals was a place where music magic was made.

So glad you found Muscle Shoals

Very enjoyable ride guys. You two gentlemen have built a great channel...Thank You!

Wow, I’m 63 y/o and I’ve always loved “Patches” but, never knew the backstory before. I’m not ashamed to tell you that story brought tears to my eyes 🥲. Rick just had the proverbial “golden ear”.

In the 70s my father in law was an A & R guy for Atlantic records and worked for Jerry Wexler. He also knew Rick Hall and watched him work in the studio. He said Rick had his hands on everything and was a ball buster like no other producer he has ever seen.

@324cmac

17 күн бұрын

I don't think I'd want to work with him, to tell you the truth.

Jimmy Cliff songs you should react to: You Can Get It If You Really Want Many Rivers To Cross The Harder They Come Sitting In Limbo Viet Nam Let Your Yeah Be Yeah Wonderful World, Beautiful People

That Pressin ‘on number Alicia Keys does is yet another Bob Dylan song.

Great watching this with you guys! Great documentary!

People together in the room is where the magic is

Bring it Laa and Chee!

Thanks Guys. That was a valuable education for me. I knew of Muscle Shoals, always hearing of it, but never knew the whole story. Wow, amazing.

ALICIA KEYS SINGING BOB DYLAN'S "pressin' on"

Recording. A job no one thinks about. It changed everything.

It's been great watching this series along with you guys. I seriously hope you take a look at Sound City the documentary. Take care! Peace!

Simply one of the best documentaries on the early years I have ever seen. I saw this several years ago and have been trying to spread the word since then. KUDOs to you for doing it. It needs to be seen by everyone. Want another lesson on early history start going thru Angelina Jordan's library and you will get a history lesson from one of the best singers in the industry today. 😊♥👣

Guys. Lets to the STAX documentary. Booker T and the MG’s. Duck Dunn, Steve Cropper, Isaac Hayes. There story is very impressive also !

@michaelgray4964

Ай бұрын

This! The Stax story is very similar to Muscle Shoals. A ton of great R&B and Soul came out of Stax in Memphis, including Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, the Staples Singers and Isaac Hayes.

@airplay_movies

Ай бұрын

That one is pretty new but I will see what we can do.

@324cmac

Ай бұрын

I had mixed feelings about the Stax documentary. This one was much better In my opinion. But it is wonderful to see Otis Redding performing.

I saw Peter Tosh and Etta James in concert on the same bill in 1978. They opened for the Stones.

Finally! Rick Hall had so much tragedy in his life!! 😢 He was an engineer too! He built the studio n rigged it all himself! Jimmy Cliff! Listen to The Harder They Come soundtrack album, especially MANY RIVERS TO CROSS!!!

Jimmy Cliff - The great Jamaican artist

What a great doc! Thanks for sharing muscle shoals with us.

I have the Live Traffic Double album called "On The Road" on vinyl that the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section plays on. Excellent Music!

Rick’s talent was god given. That was the root of it but the struggled refined it !!!!!!!!!!!!!

@324cmac

17 күн бұрын

Sounds like Rick modeled himself after Sam Phillips.

I've seen this before and I really enjoyed watching it again with you guys, thanks.

Add that David Hood, the bass player for the Swampers, has a son, Patterson Hood who sings and plays guitar with the Drive By Truckers. Very big band, sort of a generation down Southern Rock band, though they are more introspective than that description sounds.

The Swampers were bad ass groovin’!

You guys need to come down for a visit. Check out both studios. It's really mind blowing to experience this little Alabama town on the Tennessee River. The fact that so much great music comes from a place that few people know exists is staggering.

Need to check out the wrecking crew, which was the LA base studio musicians, including Glen Campbell. They played on Frank Sinatra Beach boys, and with Bill Spector and the wall of sound

@CANDOKNOWHOW

Ай бұрын

Glen Campbell was one badass guitarist, but a lot of people don’t know about that. IYKYK!!

Great Documentary it was really a good time watching it with you guys!

Greatness from within.

32:03 .. 'Pressing On' was written by Bob Dylan .. yup, that little Jewish kid from Minnesota wrote some of the greatest Gospel songs too :) #theMaster

You men are the best! Thanks!

Other great documentaries to check out are Laurel Canyon, the Wrecking Crew, The Defiant Ones

@bossfan49

Ай бұрын

Standing In The Shadows of Motown and of course the great 10 episode Jazz, by Ken Burns. and film series The Blues- produced by Martin Scorsese, features 6 films by 6 different directors including Scorsese and Clint Eastwood.

@CANDOKNOWHOW

Ай бұрын

@@bossfan49Man, I’ve been wanting to see Ken Burns Jazz Series for ages now, I think I need to go ahead and pull the trigger on that one cause his series “Baseball” is one of my favorite docs ever!

@bossfan49

Ай бұрын

@@CANDOKNOWHOW Yes, Ken is a master. His "Civil War" should be required viewing in schools. Thank God for Ken and PBS. Everything I've seen from him is amazing: Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, Unforgivable Blackness- Jack Johnson, The National Parks, Prohibition, The Dust Bowl, Jackie Robinson, Country Music..

I loved this documentary and y’all’s comments about it, a lot of things I didn’t know. Thank y’all

Muscle Shoals just had the right vibe as they use to say.

the Stones , it took a bunch of alcoholic social outcasts to kick start the Muscle Shoals story into the limelight and then all the musicians who came to record their songs & with all of us millions of music lovers who have come to jam them into perpetuity , life is in a better place giddyup Airplay

Really enjoyed this series guys. Please if you can do the documentary, " The Wrecking Crew" ..you'll love it. ❤✌️

Questlove's Summer of Soul should be your next documentary.

Jimmy Cliff film “The Harder They Come” 1972 is a cult classic

@midnightrambler7716

Ай бұрын

Keith Richards cut a great version of this too. B side of 45 RPM of his cover of Chuck Berry’s Run Run Rudolph.

Jimmy Cliff!

Amazing documentary!!!!!!!

Appreciate you guys doing this one. Such a cool story. It’s one of those quintessentially American stories & I really enjoyed it. Also, Alicia Keys is so fine, lol..

Wow, was great watching this with you guys

He's not wrong, imperfections make the greatness. In islam, perfection is the province of God, not us. I allow my imperfect self some slack.

@324cmac

17 күн бұрын

The definition of what's perfect is so subjective.

Awesome Gents!!! Thank you!

I loved this. Thanks! 😊

All of these shots of The Rolling Stones from the 60s, the older shots of the Stones, were taken from the documentary film "Gimme Shelter"! You guys should check THAT film out!! It follows the Stones in 1969 through one of their tours in the US which culminated in a free concert at the Altamonte speedway just outside of San Francisco!! The Hell's Angels motorcycle club was hired as bodyguards and security and before the night was over they had stabbed someone to death!! That happened in I believe December of 1969!! It's a great documentary and if you watch it you'll recognize all of these shots that are being shown in this doc!!

That was Jimmy Cliff “The Harder They Come.”

I'm sure you'll know the Candi Staton disco record Young Hearts Run Free when you hear it. And shit, guys, you need to watch the classic Jamaican movie The Harder They Come, starring Jimmy Cliff as a singer-cum-outlaw. Not just a great film but one of the best soundtrack albums ever. Swampers bassist David Hood's son, Patterson Hood, has a band called The Drive-By Truckers who are the best songwriters that southern rock has produced in the last 30 years. I'm sure you'd dig them. Their album The Dirty South is well worth a reaction or two. Have a good weekend and thanks for doing this documentary.

BTW Pressing on is Bob Dylan song :)

Jimmy Cliff! Pre-Bob Marley

Another good one. Thanks.

Hey guys, watch the Jamaican crime/music film The Harder They Come (1972)... starring Jimmy Cliff..who wrote and performed the title track, and several other songs. The soundtrack is basically a brief anthology of reggae music at the time, featuring The Slickers, Desmond Dekker, Toots and the Maytals, The Melodians, Scotty...pretty much every important Jamaican artist at the time BUT Bob Marley.

Jimmy Cliff is amazing, you should listen to more of his music.

Patches was a huge hit and Clarence Carter was the perfect choice to sing it.

The Stones were always scruffy and messy musicians especially live but that was what made them the Stones cos it still had the energy and soul. It was Punk before Punk.

Thank you so much for showing this guy's. I lived through this and knew a lot of artists recorded down there but really had know idea. Great job!

Loved it all. Thanks guys! ♥

Good job guys

I think you guys would like to react to the Rock version of this documentary called Sound City. About the California Studio which produced tons of famous records which you would be familiar with.

Motown was "Hitsville". Stax Records in Memphis was "Soulsville". I never heard any mention of "Southsville".

Jimmy Cliff songs you actually might know..."I can see clearly now" and "you can get it if you really want it".

@bossfan49

Ай бұрын

"I Can See Clearly Now" is a Johnny Nash song. Jimmy covered it for the Cool Runnings soundtrack. They might have heard "Many Rivers To Cross" also.

great video. I never heard the song "Patches"