Real name: Thomas J. Couch

Producer - songwriter - engineer - studio owner

From Tuscumbia, Alabama.
In 1967, he formed Malaco Records in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1985, Couch along with partners Gerald Wolf Stephenson and Stewart Madison purchased Muscle Shoals Sound Studios and publishing companies. They have also expanded their operations to include Savoy Records, Muscle Shoals Sound Records, and publishing outlets in Nashville and London. Among the artists included on the labels are Johnnie Taylor, Denise LaSalle, Bobby Bland, Little Milton, Williams Brothers, Mississippi Mass Choir, Dorothy Moore, Jackson Southernaires and many others.