Greg freddy camalier biography
- In this blog post, Greg "Freddy" Camalier '86 shares why adulthood has made him appreciate his Landon experience even more and reveals how he got into.
- Greg 'Freddy' Camalier is known for Muscle Shoals (2013), The Ungrateful Abandoned (2023) and The Ten (2007).
- Greg 'Freddy' Camalier is known for Muscle Shoals (2013), The Ungrateful Abandoned (2023) and Independent Lens (1999).
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Muscle Shoals
Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. This film is a history of the small Alabama city’s remarkable legacy in rock and soul music, focusing in large part on the huge contributions from FAME Studios founder Rick Hall.
Making his directorial debut with Muscle Shoals, filmmaking is a deep-seated passion Greg “Freddy” Camalier is hoping and planning to pursue for the remainder of his life. Having never attended film school, Camalier’s sense of filmmaking is born from his own instincts and visual sensibilities as well as from an appreciation for the art form. Camalier…Show morelives in Boulder, Colorado. Show less
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Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. U
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Sweet Home Alabama: Motoring to Muscle Shoals with Greg Camalier
The Swampers and friends at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.
It all started with a U-turn. It was May 2008, and Greg “Freddy” Camalier was helping his childhood pal Stephen Badger move from the East Coast to New Mexico for a new job. Driving the back roads across northern Alabama, they pulled out a map to find a place to bed down and realized they’d passed Muscle Shoals 40 miles back. “We knew a little bit of the music that came from there, it was music we loved,” Camalier recalls. “So we turned around and drove back to spend the night.”
They spent the next 24 hours soaking in the Shoals and the surrounding area: the small-town ambiance, the verdant fields and forests along the Tennessee River, the remarkable musical history forged by producer Rick Hall and the house band at his Fame Studios, which came to be known as the Swampers. As the segregation wars raged across the South, these back country white boys collaborated with black artists to make some of the greatest R&
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'Muscle Shoals' director Greg 'Freddy' Camalier on his documentary film chronicling North Alabama's musical magic
FLORENCE, Alabama -- In 2008, Boulder, Colo. commercial real estate agent Greg "Freddy" Camalier agreed to help his childhood best friend move to New Mexico. They decided to take back roads through the South to get there.
One night on their 1,800-mile trek, the duo was driving through Alabama when they noticed a road sign indicating they were 40 miles past Muscle Shoals. They turned around on a whim because, "We knew some of our favorite music that we'd loved all our life was made there," Camalier says.
That U-turn directly led to Camalier making a documentary film about the two iconic north Alabama recording studios, Muscle Shoals Sound and FAME, that drew The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aretha Franklin and many other landmark artists to track some of their best material and the magic that was put to analog tape.
"I didn't even know the magnitude of the music that came from there," Camalier says.
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