I do love the irony of bands being named after places they are not from.
That, however, is not the case today. Alabama Shakes are, indeed, from Athens, Alabama.
This is their only charting song to date in the US - peaking at #93 on the US charts in 2012. The lead single from their debut album, Sound & Color, it was also declared the best song of 2012 by Rolling Stone.... and I can't really dispute it. It's huge. The song is huge. The guitars are huge. The vocals are absolutely monstrous.
Written by Brittany Howard (she's the monstrous vocalist), the song was positively starmaking.
Just about every live performance sounds exactly like the record. They're that solid.
But the end of the SNL performance of this song gives me literal goosebumps.
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