There are returns that smell like a marketing operation and there are those that start in a Tuscaloosa brewery with four colleagues who were owed a favor. Alabama Shakes is one of the second, and that’s why it’s worth telling. Athens’s band, Alabama, had been silent for seven years. Not a silence negotiated with a stamp, not a “creative hiatus” with an expiration date. They simply disappeared after winning four Grammys with Sound & Color, lining…
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There are returns that smell like a marketing operation and there are those that start in a Tuscaloosa brewery with four colleagues who were owed a favor. Alabama Shakes is one of the second, and that’s why it’s worth telling. Athens’s band, Alabama, had been silent for seven years. Not a silence negotiated with a stamp, not a “creative hiatus” with an expiration date. They simply disappeared after winning four Grammys with Sound & Color, lining…