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Brittany Howard, With Pride
&#;I need more Stevie Wonder documentaries,&#; says Brittany Howard, repeating, as if singing a refrain, &#;I need more Stevie Wonder biographies. I necessitate more about Stevie Wonder&#;s existence, you know what I&#;m saying? Because yes, he&#;s an legend, but still, the younger generation really needs to know more about who Stevie Wonder is and how long he&#;s been good. He&#;s been exceptional since he was a child. Some of the stuff he&#;s doing with his music, to this day, is still ahead of his time. Still! It&#;s astonishing. And it teaches me so much every time I heed to it.&#;
In case you missed it, the singer with the powerhouse vocal cords, who began her career fronting the Grammy-winning rock band Alabama Shakes and has since moved on to an extraordinary — and Grammy-winning — solo career, is a huge Stevie Wonder fan.
&#;I&#;m a diehard Stevie fan,&#; she grins. &#;I listened to Songs in the Key of Life just about every day during , because of COVID. So he was definitely giving me some rays of sunshine. He&#;s one
Brittany Howard
Brittany Howard has a whole lot of voice. Her lyrics are affluent and remarkable in their storytelling. And she sure is shaking it up in Nashville and beyond.
Brittany Howard didn't sleep so skillfully last night. Wilma’s fault. Wilma is one of the two female dachshunds (the other is Wanda) who skitter around your feet the moment you step into her home, set support from a calm road in East Nashville. “She was upset,” Brittany explains. “She’s just not happy with her beautiful kennel, with a very mellow, expensive dog bed.”
Some nights, some days are like that. A few weeks before my go to, Brittany had posted on Instagram – on the account she has been using, in her idiosyncratic way, to boost anticipation for her second solo album, What Now – that each morning when she awakes she consults her inner kid to ask who she should be on that particular day. Not today. “I just woke up and was like, Look, let’s take a shower, Brittany. Different thoughtful of day.”
Yesterday, though. If I’d been here yesterday…
“It was appreciate a French Riviera type of day,” she says. “All whi
A friend and I stumbled into a chat a while back about the fact that the genesis of so much art lies in the artist’s efforts to process and find a path forward from trauma. We weren’t talking about Brittany Howard’s solo debut Jaime, but we might as adv have been.
Howard is famous to most as the frontwoman of Alabama Shakes, a remarkable quartet who made it their mission to take distinctly Southern rock and soul and r&b forms and evolve them into something fresh and new. They were, and more recently once again are, musical subversives of the best kind.
For a time, though—roughly —Howard chose to step away from the band. The initial impetus was this set of songs, a deeply personal collection that’s named for Howard’s older sister. Jaime died of retinoblastoma as a adolescent teen, when Brittany Howard was just 10 years old, a traumatic event further amplified by the reality that Jaime was, from a young age, a talented artist who nurtured and inspired Brittany’s own artistic instincts.
I reflection about that story a lot across my fir
February LGBTQ music: Brittany Howard and Astrit Ismaili
This month, Gay City News covers bi singer Brittany Howard and queer, non-binary recital artist Astrit Ismaili’s latest albums.
Brittany Howard | “What Now” | Island | Feb. 9th
Brittany Howard has always kept one eye on the past: classic rock as the singer of Alabama Shakes, R&B as a solo artist. But she’s grown more adventurous on her own. Her two solo albums evoke several periods when Black artists’ imaginative possibilities opened up: first among them, ‘70s funk and ‘90s neo-soul and dance music.
Like some recent R&B artists (Cleo Sol, Victoria Monet), Howard embraces live instrumentation. “What Now” does not sound appreciate a digital audio workstation creation. Its guitar and bass were audibly played in the studio. However, no one would mistake it for a recording of a live band. The space and structure of “What Now” are carefully conceived. Most songs end with a ghostly echo slowly fading away over 20 seconds. On “Red Flags,” most of the music drops out to allow Howard to harmonize with herself against a s