Ronnie Milsap

Walt Aldridge attended the University of Alabama as a business major before transferring to the University of North Alabama to enroll in its music business program, drawn in part by the school’s internship with FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals. That internship proved pivotal, showing Walt that he belonged in the studio and leading to a 17-year stint working with Rick Hall, the founder of FAME. Walt received his first guitar, a Silvertone, as a Christmas gift when he was eight years old, and he wrote a handful of songs as a teenager. Still, it was Rick Hall who encouraged hi

Clayton Ivey is proud to have been the first white producer to sign exclusively with Motown Records. As a result of his work at Motown (which was located in Los Angeles at that time), Clayton worked with legends such as Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, the Commodores and the Supremes, among others. He later produced records with Hank Williams Jr., Roy Orbison, Wayne Newton and John Kay. As a studio musician he played on all of Toby Keith's #1 records, numerous Chet Atkins and Ronnie Milsap recordings and such on hits as "Patches (Clarence Carter)," "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me" (Mac

Marie Lewey is a noted backup singer based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where she worked in all of the local recording studios as well as many in Nashville. Teaming with her dear friends Cindy Richardson Walker and the late Ava Aldridge, they were known as the Shoal Sisters and in great demand. Marie’s main goal when she arrives to sing backup is to “serve the song.” That attitude contributes to the reason why so many producers want to work with her. Marie can be heard on hundreds of recordings including those with Kris Kristofferson (“Why Me Lord”) and Ronnie Milsap (“Any Day Now”)