Percy Sledge, a small man with a big voice and heart to match it, an artist who helped launch the Muscle Shoals Sound, died in a Baton Rouge hospice on April 14 after a lengthy illness. He was 74. Born in Leighton, Alabama, November 25, 1940, Sledge was a hospital orderly when he began singing with a local frat band in the mid-1960s. He had replaced his cousin Jimmy Hughes who had recently had a nat...