But three of its members grew up around another music town: Muscle Shoals, Ala.
He later was a songwriter for crosstown rival Muscle Shoals Sound Studios before returning to Memphis.
In 1969, four local session players known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section decided to open up their own recording studio.
When Malaco bought Muscle Shoals Sound, it hired Jackson to write songs, said Wolf Stephenson, Malaco's vice president and chief engineer.
The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio was a recording mecca for rhythm and blues, rock and pop artists in the '60s and '70s.
The Rhythm Section partners sold the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1985.
Detroit rocker Bob Seger's signature song "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll" began as a demo tape at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.
"There was a Motown sound, there was a Nashville sound, there was a Memphis sound, and I said, 'Muscle Shoals Sound, '" Hood tells NPR's Debbie Elliott.
In fact, that sound was already developing in Muscle Shoals at a studio called Fame the first studio in the region to cut a hit record.
"You can draw a triangle from Nashville to Memphis to Muscle Shoals, and while Nashville is the country center, Memphis is generally known as the blues center, " Lair says.
"Bob had pretty much finished his recording at Muscle Shoals and he asked them if they had any other songs he could listen to for the future, " Stephenson said.
He twice vetoed farming subsidies and he stopped government entry into the utilities industry by killing a project to operate the old wartime plant at Muscle Shoals in Alabama.
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Clarence Carter, who has been recording in Muscle Shoals for nearly five decades, says there's a vibe in the town that he could never capture when he recorded in California.
Muscle Shoals seemed an unlikely place for a celebrity crowd: the nicest hotel was a Holiday Inn, and sometimes the area's studios would put artists up in mobile homes at the local trailer park.
She's backed by a band that includes guitarist Ernie Isley of the Isley Brothers and Muscle Shoals Rhythm Stompers keyboard great Clayton Ivey, with backing vocals by 1974 Grammy winner Betty Wright ("Where is the Love").
Among those drawn to the area was Paul Simon, who came in search of the band behind the recording that many call the essence of the Muscle Shoals sound: "I'll Take You There" by the Staple Singers.
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