Rick Hall
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Roe Erister "Rick" Hall, 1932-1932-1932 – January 2, 2018), was an American record producer, songwriter, and singer who became known as the owner of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
He was instrumental in both country and soul music, as well as assisting in the growth of artists such as Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Duane Allman, and Etta James. Hall was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1985 and was also given the John Herbert Orr Pioneer Award.
He was named in 2014 by the Grammy Trustees Award in recognition of his long service.
Hall has continued to work in the music business, including FAME Studios, FAME Records, and FAME Publishing.
Early life
Hall was born into a family of sharecroppers in Forest Grove, Tishomingo County, Mississippi; his sister, Dollie Dimple Daily Hall, was born with a sawmill worker and sharecropper; he had one sister.
He and his sister were raised in rural poverty by his father and grandparents in Franklin County, Alabama, after his mother died young when young Hall was four years old. Dollie worked in a bordello after leaving the family, according to The Guardian. Rick's uncle gave him a mandolin at age 6, and his father was a gospel music enthusiast. He learned to play guitar later in life.
As a youth, Hall began playing in local bar bands and began working as an apprentice toolmaker. When he was selected for the Korean War, he declared himself a conscient objector, served as the honor guard of the Fourth United States Army, and performed in a band that also featured Faron Young and Gordon Terry.
Later life
Linda Cross of Leighton, Alabama, had met and married him some years after the death of his first wife. Rick Jr., Mark, and Rodney were three of the couple's three sons. Hall had five grandchildren, who affectionately referred to him as Pepaw. In the 2013 documentary film Muscle Shoals, Hall's life and work are chronicled. Hall revealed in a interview before the film's release that he and his wife donated their home of 30 years to the Boys and Girls Ranches of Alabama, a charity that helps abandoned and neglected children in 2009. At a time when children are excluded from their families due to no fault of their own, the house now serves as a home to up to seventeen teenage girls.
Hall was given the Grammy Trustees Award in 2014 for his contributions to the field of recording.
In a book titled The Man from Muscle Shoals: My Journey from Shame to Fame in 2015, Hall published his memoirs. The University of North Alabama in Florence awarded Hall an honorary doctorate on December 17, 2016.
He died in Muscle Shoals, twenty-eight days after his 86th birthday.
Early career as musician and songwriter
When Hall returned to Alabama, he resumed industrial life, working for Reynolds Aluminum in Florence. Faye and his father died within a two-week period in 1957, and he began suffering depression and began drinking regularly. He soon began to travel around the region, playing guitar, mandolin, and fiddle with Carmol Taylor and the Country Pals, and first encountered saxophonist Billy Sherrill. At WERH in Hamilton, the group appeared on a weekly regional radio show. Hall formed the Fairlanes, a new R&B band fronted by Dan Penn, with Billy Sherrill playing bass. He began writing songs at the time.
Hall left the Fairlanes to work on becoming a singer and record producer. In the late 1950s, he had his first songwriting success, when George Jones recorded his song "Achin', Breakin' Heart," Brenda Lee sang "She'll Never Know" and Roy Orbison released "Sweet and Innocent." Billy Sherrill, a fellow ex-Fairlanes member and future Tammy Wynette's engineer, founded a firm in Florence, Alabama, in 1960. They founded FAME (Florence Alabama Music Enterprises) in the United States and opened their first primitive studio above a drug store.
Sam Phillips, a native of Florence, Alabama, was an early mentor. Hall recalled those days in The New York Times in 2015. "We will sit down and talk about 2 o'clock in the morning, and Sam would tell me, 'Rick, don't go to Nashville, because they'll eat your soul alive." I wanted to be like Sam — I wanted to be someone special."
