Edward King

Salué pour sa narration chronologique parfaitement maîtrisée, ce documentaire, présenté au Festival South by Southwest 2018, passionnera à la fois fans et novices. Après ses films sur Scott Walker et les Rolling Stones, le réalisateur Stephen Kijak retrace l’histoire d'un groupe phare qui continue de déchaîner les passions, dans les pas de l’étoile filante Ronnie Van Zant.

In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, locals came together and spawned some of the greatest music of all time: “Mustang Sally,” “I Never Loved a Man,” “Wild Horses,” and many more. During the most incendiary periods of racial hostility, white folks and black folks came together to create music that would last for generations and gave birth to the incomparable “Muscle Shoals sound.”