“Do these songs exist and would you be interested in doing that?” And (local singer/songwriter) Alan Littlesaid the same thing. I think it would be cool to do one day, but I’m afraid to do that. Because to you that song has a certain feel to it and I don...
The band Alabama Shakes was a more recently active band, forming in 2009 and staying together until 2018. Their unique sound that blends both modern and old school will certainly attract most students. This is another song with a relatively simple structure that’s easy to follow and learn. T...
01. Alabama Shakes–“Boys & Girls”.This sounds like Carla Thomas backed by Booker T. & The MGs at the Stax Studio in Memphis in 1967. What a wonderfully soulful debut. The iTunes version of the album has a bonus track called “Heavy Chevy” that also should not be missed. ...
Alabama Shakes’ second album begins with a song about an astronaut who has been shot into space on a mission to find a new planet where the human race can settle and start over. And thus, Sound & Color subverted almost everything we’d come to expect about a band that had been positi...
Contemporary music still shows the influence of Southern soul. Bands like St. Paul & The Broken Bones and Alabama Shakes are bringing this classic sound to a whole new generation. Do they deserve to be among the top spots on this list? You decide, with your votes!
Alabama Shakes, ‘Boys & Girls’ This garage-R&B fusion has served as a retro-chic benchmark for so long that it’s easy to forget just how strangely riotous theAlabama Shakes’ debut offering sounded when it came out in 2012. The Athens, Alabama, quartet packed a half-century of esote...
Alabama Shakes’ gritty gospel-soul isn’t absent onBrittany Howard’s solo debutJaime, but it’s augmented by wider spectrum of sound —“13th Century Metal” could be a Silver Apples homage and “Run to Me” has shades of soul-synth Bowie — and a deeper look into Howard’s psyche be...
It’s hard to top the sheer excitement of “I”m a Ding Dong Daddy,” the band really pushing this Louis Armstrong song to great heights. There’s another fun vocal (“I done forgot the words” he sings at one point) but the main event is the trumpet playing, a master’s class in...
Alabama Shakes - I Found You Watch on With a casual, distinctive, and soulful sound, this song has lyrics like, "I finally found you," which suit a wedding setting and make it a unique—and bluesy—option for a first dance. Download “XO” by Beyoncé This content is imported from ...
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