philip964 wrote: These lyrics always puzzled me: Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
Muscle Shoals is a town in the Northern part of the Alabama where there is a large TVA project. But who are the Swampers? An article a few years ago solved my puzzlement. The Swampers are a group of talented studio musicians who played back up on tons of great hits.
Just for FYI:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/muscle-shoals/