Alabama’s Muscle Shoals maintains legacy as birthplace of music and miracles [Video]

Little Muscle Shoals, Alabama boasts a giant legacy as the birthplace of blues, “Brown Sugar” and miraculous American icons.

Helen Keller, W.C. Handy and Sam Phillips were each born along this sleepy stretch of the Tennessee River in northern Alabama. 

Keller’s life story of overcoming blindness and deafness to become an author and icon was told in “The Miracle Worker.” Handy, “The King of Blues,” is one of the most influential musicians in history. 

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Both are still celebrated in birthplace museums around Muscle Shoals.

Phillips changed the course of pop culture when he founded Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee and discovered a young singer named Elvis Presley. Millions of people around the world know the name Muscle Shoals, however, and its hit-making …