alabama shakes

Brittany Howard talks with Simon and Brian about her arresting new record What Now and how she approaches songwriting. The singer and guitarist discusses taking risks in the studio, experimenting with rhythm, and her encounters with the legendary Prince.

On this week’s return to our popular rock music series, we welcome special guest, Katherine, a friend and colleague of Dave’s eldest daughter, Alexandra. Kat’s father introduced her to the artists of his (and our) era, many of which she loves. We asked Kat to expand our musical horizons by recommending artists from more recent times, artists we might not have heard of or, if we had, not heard their songs. We listened to her recommendations and the conversation you will hear, which ventured far and wide, blossomed from there...

Listen to Kat’s playlist on Spotify

Baby Was the Devil by Robert Francis
Black Smoke Rising by Greta Van Fleet
California by The Lagoons
Call Me by St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Cigarette Daydreams by Cage The Elephant
City Club by The Growlers
Confidence by Ocean Alley
Confirmation by Westerman
Fade Out by James Bay
Feeling Good by The Sheepdogs
Freakin' Out On the Interstate by Briston Maroney
Gap in the Clouds by Yellow Days
Hey Mama by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Hold On by Alabama Shakes
The Kiss of Venus by Paul McCartney & Dominic Fike
Kiwi by Harry Styles
Left Hand Free by alt-J
The Less I Know The Better by Tame Impala
My Lady's On Fire by Ty Segall
ОСТ 33 by Black Pumas
Pain by The War On Drugs
Pool House by The Backseat Lovers
Rita Mae Young by The Record Company
Sacrilege by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sedona by Houndmouth
Soulfight by The Revivalists
Stick Season by Noah Kahan
Under the Pressure by The War On Drugs
Woman by Harry Styles

As a bonus, here are some current artists recommended by Richard’s son, Griffin:
Madvillain, JPEGMafia, Kendrick Lamar, Brockhampton, Stromae, Aesop Rock, and Run the Jewels.

We know, it's only Rock 'n' Roll... but we love it!

Music and image credits:
Illustration of Jimi Hendrix by Vicki Hamilton from Pixabay
Semi-Retired “flipz” theme by tubebackr from SoundCloud
Music promoted by free-stock-music.com
Maple Leaf image by Vectoro Artworks from Vecteezy
Perforated steel image by YuriyC from VectorStock

Hoje é dia de colocar os sentimentos na mesa, só com músicas trazendo a palavra "feel" no nome:

- Jake Shears - I Dont Feel Like Dancin
- Joy Crookes - Bad Feeling
- The Bear That Wasn't - Fizzy Good (Make Feel Nice)
- Frank Bennett - The Way You Make Me Feel
- Dry Cleaning - Strong Feelings
- The Twelves - I Feel Fine
- Alabama Shakes - This Feeling
- Jhameel - I Feel Fine
- Malia & Boris Blank - I Feel It Like You
- Alina Baraz & Galimatias - Make You Feel
- Jimmy Jørgensen  - I Feel Love
- Krysten - Feel Like Making Love
- Nataly Dawn - Electric Feel
- Little Simz - Feel Good Inc

For the season finale of Object of Sound, a reminder that you are an artist, regardless of what you do for work. Before Brittany Howard became a striking soloist and lead singer of Alabama Shakes, she worked at Cracker Barrel, sold cars, and even delivered mail in rural Alabama. In this episode, Hanif and Brittany reflect on how they preserved their creative lives and taught themselves writing and music while on the job. They dive into a shared love of funk and Brittany reveals how she learned to play guitar as a kid from reading magazines. Plus, a playlist of songs to soundtrack your work day. After this episode, we’re going to take a break. Season Two of Object of Sound picks up June 18th! Stay tuned. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode, visit http://bit.ly/oos-work

/Show Notes/

Brittany Howard’s most recent album is Jaime. 

Hanif and Brittany talk about Bill Withers and Brittany’s cover of Parliament Funkadelic’s “You and Your Folks.”

Brittany cites Vulfpeck and BadBadNotGood as the bands with funk rhythm sections that she admires. 

Brittany adds “Ain’t It Hard” by Sharon Jones,“Cold Sweat” by James Brown, “Oh Marie”

by Louis Prima and “The Prophet’s Song” by Queen to a playlist of songs for the work day.

/Music In This Week's Playlist/

You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks, Brittany Howard covering Funkadelic

The Prophet’s Song, Queen

Pressure, Paramore

Ain’t it Hard, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Tears of Rage, The Band

People Everyday, Arrested Development

Time’s a Wastin, Erykah Badu

/ Credits / 

Object of Sound is a Sonos show produced by work x work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, and Babette Thomas. The show is additionally produced by Hanif Abdurraqib. Our engineers are Sam Bair and Josh Hahn of The Relic Room.

Here is this week's playlist. 
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19qFzRNqqPMqcV5WNzFWse

The 22nd anniversary Oxford American music issue, guest edited by Brittany Howard, is shipping to OA subscribers now and is available at OxfordAmericanGoods.org. It hits newsstands nationwide December 1. 

Brittany Howard’s latest album Jaime and single Jaime (The Remixes) are available now.