[1] Calloway, Eades and Thompson met while at Tennessee State University in Nashville, and began performing with local bands and, on one occasion, young guitarist Jimi Hendrix.
[2] Together with Rose, they began recording together at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals in the late 1960s,[3] and performed on 300 albums, by musicians including Bob Dylan, B.B.
King, and Elton John,[4] often working with the musicians of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
The Muscle Shoals Horns also achieved commercial success in their own right, releasing three albums under their own name, with four records on the R&B singles chart in 1976-77 – "Born To Get Down (Born To Mess Around)" (#8), "Open Up Your Heart" (#47), "Bump De Bump Yo Boodie" (#63), and "Dance To The Music" (#57).
[4] Harrison Calloway, seen by the other members as "the father of the group",[4] died in Jackson, Mississippi on April 30, 2016, aged 75, following a stroke.