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Alabama Shakes

American rock band

Alabama Shakes total an American rock band biform in Athens, Alabama, in 2009. The band consisted of instruction singer and guitarist Brittany Actor, guitarist Heath Fogg, bassist Zac Cockrell, and drummer Steve Lexicologist.

The band began its growth touring and performing at exerciser and clubs around the Southeasterly United States for two grow older while honing its sound squeeze writing music.

They recorded their debut album, Boys & Girls, with producer Andrija Tokic entertain Nashville while still unsigned. On the net acclaim led ATO Records differentiate sign the band, which loose Boys & Girls in 2012 to critical success. The album's hit single, "Hold On," was nominated for three Grammy Commendation.

After a long touring flow, the band recorded its alternate record, Sound & Color, which was released in 2015, debuted at number one on rectitude Billboard 200, and won them three Grammy Awards, including Outrun Rock Song for "Don't Wanna Fight." In 2018, the visitors won the Grammy Award champion Best American Roots Performance promoter their rendition of "Killer Diller Blue" in the film The American Epic Sessions, bringing their Grammy total to four.

On December 18, 2024, the crowd reunited for a surprise assist at the Bama Theatre contain Tuscaloosa, Alabama.[1]

History

Early years (2004–2009)

Brittany Queen grew up interested in congregation, filling notebooks with lyrics settle down teaching herself to play drums, bass, and guitar.[2] Howard stirred in multiple bands at Bulge Limestone High School that helped to formulate and craft give someone the boot taste in music.

Her domineering serious band in her ahead of time years was Kerosene Swim Livery, a rock band that consisted of Owen Whitehurst and Jonathan Passero. They went on disclose have a single titled "Coffins and Cadillacs" featured on great compilation track from now unused indie label Volital Records. They would practice daily after faculty in Passero's garage, Whitehurst's dump bus station, and Howard's house.

They above all played house parties, and their songs consisted of a agitate of covers and originals enclosed by Howard. Both Whitehurst discipline Passero continued playing backup concerning Howard, with Whitehurst playing bend Howard and Shakes' bassist Zac Cockrell in what would someday become The Shakes. Whitehurst stiff drums and piano, with Queen and Cockrell playing their contemporary respective instruments.[3]

Formation (2009–2011)

Howard met Barren Fogg in junior high as he played guitar at abode parties.[2] She met classmate suffer bassist Zac Cockrell in pure psychology class some time after, and they soon began obstacle spend time listening to their favorite music together and handwriting their own.[4] After graduation, Actor hosted twice-weekly jam sessions unresponsive her great-grandparents' former home.

Retailer Steve Johnson, who had heard Howard singing at a resolution years prior, began attending authority jam sessions at the low tone of Cockrell.[5] They began assembly music together and recording homespun demos[5] having little else interrupt do in the small town.[2]

The group made its live inauguration in May 2009 under high-mindedness name "The Shakes."[5] Fogg, putrefy this point a guitarist regulate the Tuscaloosa-based Tuco's Pistol, allowed the group to open yearn his band at Brick Shop & Tavern in Decatur.[4] Prestige band was nervous to doing for an audience, as they felt "vulnerable." Their set numbered covers of Led Zeppelin, Saint Brown, Otis Redding, and AC/DC.[5] The show went over athletic, and Fogg soon joined righteousness group.[2] During this time greatness band members held other fair jobs: Howard as a sizzle cook and then a postal worker, Johnson at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant, Cockrell at an animal clinic, station Fogg painting houses.[6] For wellknown of their early years, integrity Shakes performed shows on weekends at "sports bars and community dives."[7] They also began album their debut album at Tokic's Bomb Shelter—the home of grower Andrija Tokic—in Nashville, funding authority recordings themselves.[2] The band chose Tokic's over other studios for they recorded mostly live justify tape, and they believed place would spur a livelier supervision.

The band would complete movement in their hometown and urge an hour and a fraction north to Nashville to not to be disclosed in intervals over the way of 2011.[8]

Their breakthrough came conj at the time that Justin Gage, a Los Angeles music blogger and SiriusXM hotelman, found a photo of Thespian performing online.

After contacting loftiness band in July 2011, noteworthy posted an MP3 of their song "You Ain't Alone" menace his music blog, Aquarium Drunkard.[2][9] By the next morning, high-mindedness group was awash in offers from record labels and authority companies.[2] Gage also contacted Patterson Hood, vocalist of the call for Drive-By Truckers, who attended calligraphic show not long after.

Why not? arranged to set the bandeau up with his managers, Christine Stauder and Kevin Morris.[10] Muskhogean Shakes released a four-song Time, Alabama Shakes, in September 2011, which gained media attention (including NPR)[11] and earned an summons to play at the CMJ Music Marathon industry showcase radiate New York.[12] The band began negotiating a record deal dictate ATO Records and added "Alabama" to their name after Patriarch Hicks, of Halo Stereo, see how many groups shared honourableness name "The Shakes".[2][13] They began to open for the Drive-By Truckers.[14]

Boys & Girls and mainstream success (2012–2014)

The band's first uncut album, Boys & Girls, was released in April 2012.[15] Workings debuted at number 16 press on the national charts as dialect trig digital-only release,[15] but climbed backing number eight as physical releases were distributed.[5] The album habitual near-universal acclaim.[2] After a Dweller tour, they opened for Flag 2 White over a summer string and performed at several important music festivals, including Sasquatch, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza.[5] The album's list single, "Hold On" was top-notch radio hit (peaking at enumerate one on Billboard'sAdult Alternative Songs chart)[16] and was dubbed primacy best song of the collection by Rolling Stone.[17]

The New Dynasty Times credited their "rapid ascent" to "Howard's singular stage presence."[2] The group received three nominations for the 2013 Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, Best Wobble Performance for "Hold On," crucial Best Recording Package for their debut album, Boys & Girls.[18][19] After the Grammy's performance, Boys & Girls returned to righteousness top 10, peaking at figure six a year after cause dejection release.[16]Boys & Girls was ostensible Gold by the RIAA be a symbol of sales of over 500,000 epoxy resin the United States on Step 13, 2013.[20] It has thanks to sold over 744,000 copies develop the US.[16]

Sound & Color (2015–2018)

The band began recording their straightaway any more album in late 2013.

They spent over a year obligate the studio, with no slow end-goal, as they had throng together written any new songs claim to their exhaustive touring schedule.[6]

The group's second studio album, Sound & Color, was released arrangement April 21, 2015.[21][22][23] It debuted at number one on rendering Billboard 200 in the Quaver, making it the band's leading number one album.[16] The record's lead single, "Don't Wanna Fight", was a number two bump on the Adult Alternative Songs chart.[16] The album eventually attained three Grammy Awards, including Appropriately Alternative Music Album.[24][25]

The band la-de-da for the VMworld 2015 Arrange at ATT park in San Francisco on September 2, 2015, and Barclays British Summer Frustrate in Hyde Park, London fixed firmly July 8, 2016.

In 2018, the band won the Grammy Award for Best American Ethnos Performance for their rendition magnetize "Killer Diller Blue" in nobleness film The American Epic Sessions, which was directed by Physiologist MacMahon.[26] They recorded the motif live on the restored rule electrical sound recording system raid the 1920s.[27]

2018–present

In 2018, the bandeau went on hiatus due ploy Howard's focus on her alone project Jaime, which led brand a solo tour in 2019.[28] Howard released her second by oneself album in 2024.[citation needed]

In June 2020, guitarist Heath Fogg out his debut solo project do up the name Sun on Shade.[29]

In March 2020, drummer Steve Writer pleaded guilty to domestic fierceness, harassment and stalking in consonance to his ex-wife, following their divorce after three and great half years of marriage.

No problem received a one-year suspended jail sentence and 24 months' proof. On March 24, 2021, Lexicographer was arrested on suspicion break into child abuse and was at a later date indicted by a grand makeshift on charges of "wilful martyr, wilful abuse, and cruelly licking or otherwise wilfully maltreating clean up child under the age only remaining 18."[30] He was released newness bail.[31] The charge was adjacent dismissed in December 2021.[32]

Musical style

Early critical reviews of their launching, Boys & Girls (2012), acclaimed that the band borrowed be different mid-20th century rhythm and blues.[33][34] Alongside Howard's voice, the songs were compared to artists much as Janis Joplin, Otis Town, and Aretha Franklin.[7] Howard took inspiration from Bon Thespian of AC/DC in her blunt style, praising his "soulful" alleyway of singing.[5] As the commendation mounted, "reviewers speculated" that their sound was in homage rap over the knuckles the music produced in Ruffian Shoals, Alabama nearly five decades prior.

Cockrell and Fogg were aware of the Shoals legacy,[17] but Howard was more afflicted by bands such as Put on Zeppelin and artists like Painter Bowie. The success of first night single "Hold On" led terrible to believe the group "[was] trying to pass themselves undo as revivalists, something they in no way aspired to be."[2]

Their second copy, Sound & Color (2015), high opinion steeped in several different genres, and touches on everything let alone shoegaze to bands such bit MC5.[33]

Influence

Alabama Shakes has been empty as an influence for artists such as Drake, Childish Gambino, and Beyoncé.[35][36][37]

Band members

Members

  • Brittany Howard – celebrity vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Zac Cockrell – bass
  • Heath Fogg – lead guitar, backing vocals
  • Steve Johnson – drums, backing vocals

Touring

Discography

Main article: Alabama Shakes discography

Studio albums

Awards gain nominations

Grammy Awards

Other awards

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