Alabama Shakes
Hometown: Athens AL
Tags: blues, soul, alabama
Review from the New York Times, Oct 21 2011:
Imagine a CMJ buzz band not built around some cool-headed concept involving noise or irony or ambiguities or primitivism. Imagine a band not trying to make a fashion or anti-fashion statement. Imagine a band whose vocals aren’t just something to put up with because that’s the songwriter. Imagine a band named after a place that actually comes from that place. And imagine a band whose New York City debut left a CMJ Music Marathon audience literally screaming for joy.
That band would be Alabama Shakes, whose Bowery Ballroom set early on Thursday night was a thunderbolt dressed in bluejeans. (No repeats; they’re headed for Boston.) The band plays straightforward Southern soul: three chords, blues and gospel roots, aching when it’s slow and growling and whooping when it’s fast. READ MORE
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mySpoonful on Alabama Shakes
4 months agoAlabama Shakes will make you shimmy to the down home grooves of their eponymous EP, a refreshing take on southern soul and a celebration of a musical genre. A cross between motown soul and southern R&B, Alabama Shakes singer Brittany Howard alternates between the classic soul voice of Mary Wells (of "My Guy" and "Beat Me To The Punch" fame) on "I Found You" and an androgynous version of Jack White, on the lead track "Hold On". more at myspoonful.com