Cat Flint- Bloody Mary Morning Cover (Willie Nelson) Shoals City Showdown

Описание: It’s Muscle Shoals Sound Week in the Shoals City Showdown, and I’m so excited to share my video! 🎶

For this week, I chose “Bloody Mary Morning” by Willie Nelson — a song that captures that restless, raw storytelling that country music is all about but brings in the rhythm and blues that Muscle Shoals is known for. Willie’s ability to turn heartbreak and chaos into a sing-along moment truly embodies the grit and soul of Muscle Shoals.

This track was produced by the legendary Jerry Wexler, who not only produced “Bloody Mary Morning” for Willie’s concept album Phases and Stages (recorded March 1974), but also played a pivotal role in shaping the Muscle Shoals Sound itself . Wexler—already renowned for his work with Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin—not only signed Willie to Atlantic Records but encouraged him to record at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, bringing that unmistakable rhythm-and-blues energy into country music.

Working with Wexler meant more than just laying down tracks—it meant blending Willie’s country roots with the soulful essence of Muscle Shoals. He even pushed back against Atlantic execs who said Muscle Shoals was too R&B for Willie, famously saying, “Willie was too R&B for Nashville”—a testament to his bold direction.

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