On This Day In Alabama History: Muscle Shoals Guitarist Eddie Hinton Was Born

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Edward C. “Eddie” Hinton was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 15, 1944. The guitarist and singer-songwriter had a career that spanned the most vital part of the soul music era in Muscle Shoals. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Hinton, who was white, participated in many recordings with black soul artists, from Aretha Franklin to the Staple Singers to Percy Sledge.

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