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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Alabama Shakes - Dynamic Blues & Garage-rock






Alabama Shakes is an American rock band formed in Athens, Alabama, United States in 2009. The lead singer,Brittany Howard, did a lot of that as a kid, spending weekends in her room experimenting with instruments and a tape recorder, making up lyrics and layering sounds, unconsciously preparing herself for a life now consumed by music.


Her taste in music was considerably more esoteric than the typical teen in a small-town northern Alabama high school. “I spent a lot of time with my grandmother’s music: Dion, the Platters, the Drifters, the Temptations – I grew up on that,” she says. Later she discovered T. Rex and David Bowie, and got her education in roots music from Led Zeppelin and Rolling Stones albums.


Band Members:
Brittany Howard - Lead Singer
Heath Fogg - Guitarist
Zac Cockrell - Bassist
Steve Johnson - Drummer


References:
http://www.last.fm/music/Alabama+Shakes
http://www.npr.org/artists/145926696/alabama-shakes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/26/alabama-shakes-brittany-howard-review
http://www.alabamashakes.com/
http://www.alabamashakes.bandcamp.com


Image Source:
http://www.nme.com/reviews/alabama-shakes/12693

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