Photo of the Day: November 23, 2025

photo courtesy of Country Music Hall of Fame

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Photo of the day:  The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum celebrated the opening of its next major exhibition Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising. The evening included special performances by:

Jason Isbell performing “Kodachrome,” “Wild Horses” and “You Better Move On.”
Bettye LaVette performing “Choices,” backed by Spooner Oldham.
Spooner Oldham and Dan Penn performing “I’m Your Puppet.”

Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising is now open for a nearly three-year run, closing in March 2028. The more than 5,000-square-foot exhibit surveys the emergence of Muscle Shoals as a recording epicenter in the 1960s and 1970s and spotlights its enduring cultural impact through today. The exhibit is included with museum admission and supported by OneLouder.

In a small corner of Alabama by the Tennessee River, local musicians, songwriters and producers created a swampy, Southern sound merging R&B, country, pop music and more. The museum’s major exhibit tells the story of this distinctive music and how Black and white creators found a way to work together at a time when segregation prevailed. Studios built a homemade system for cutting music dusted with grit and soul, including FAME Studio, helmed by producer Rick Hall; Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, home of the acclaimed Swampers house band; and more. Hitmakers flocked to this otherwise quiet community seeking a new sound created by homegrown talent.

L-R (back row): Mark Hall, Candi Staton, Cindy Richardson-Walker, Linda Hall, Rodney Hall, Museum Board Chair Jody Williams, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, Jason Isbell, Norbert Putnam, Museum CEO Kyle Young, Kelvin Holly, Marlin Greene

L-R (front row): Mickey Buckins, Clayton Ivey, Vice President of Museum Services Michael Gray, Bob Wray and John Paul White at the opening of the exhibition Muscle Shoals: Low Rhythm Rising, now open at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

(Photo by: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)

 

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