Karen Lee Batten

Karen Lee Bat­ten just returned home from Mus­cle Shoals Alabama com­plet­ing her 4th inde­pen­dent record. This new album titled “Under The Cov­ers” is poised to be her most crit­i­cally acclaimed thus far. “Under The Cov­ers” is an album recorded entirely in Mus­cle Shoals, Alabama, inside the same land­mark stu­dio “Fame Stu­dios” that pro­duced hit records and shaped the his­tory of pop­u­lar music. On “Under The Cov­ers” Bat­ten worked with some of ‘the Shoals’ orig­i­nal stu­dio musi­cians and only recorded songs that orig­i­nated in Mus­cle Shoals – a city known for its musi­cal his­tory. And, it’s that his­tory which serves as the under­lin­ing pulse that makes Batten’s project so unique and inno­v­a­tive. How many peo­ple have actu­ally stood in the his­toric ‘Fame Stu­dio’ — in the same spot as Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more — singing and record­ing songs from these same musi­cians while founder, Rick Hall, lis­tened and watched approv­ingly from behind the console.