Roger Hawkins, Muscle Shoals Drummer on Aretha Franklin Classics, Dead at 75
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As drummer in the Swampers, Hawkins played on hits like Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally,” Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman”
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Subscribe NowAs drummer in the Swampers, Hawkins played on hits like Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally,” Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman”
Band recorded album at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, with studio vets Spooner Oldham, Will McFarlane