{"id":40570,"date":"2015-03-23T01:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T01:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40570"},"modified":"2017-03-25T21:34:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T21:34:42","slug":"brittany-howard-of-the-alabama-shakes-i-dont-think-about-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40570","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes: “I Don’t Think About Color”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes: “I Don’t Think About Color”<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Black Entertainment Television<\/a>
\n2013-06-25<\/p>\n

Clay Cane<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes: “I Don’t Think About Color”<\/em><\/p>\n

If you haven’t heard of Brittany Howard<\/a> of the Alabama Shakes<\/a>, the 24-year-old is making jaws drop in the music industry. Armed with ferocious vocals, passionate lyrics and a dynamic presence \u2014 on and off stage \u2014 Howard as the front woman of the Alabama Shakes is bringing rock and blues back from the grave for a new generation.<\/p>\n

On Sunday night at the Capital Theatre in Port Chester, NY<\/a>, the Grammy-nominated Alabama Shakes performed to a sold-out show, performing music from their latest album Boys & Girls. Hours before hitting the stage, Brittany was prepping for her first one-on-one interview with BET.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Just finishing a cigarette, Howard sat down to discuss her roots, music and fame. Although surprisingly reserved, the Athens, AL<\/a>, native possessed a quiet strength. Interviews, celebrity and folks wanting to know your business is new for Brittany and the band who never strived be the next big thing in music: “It’s a miracle that we are sitting in Port Chester, New York doing an interview with BET<\/em>. Like, what the hell?”<\/p>\n

When did you first fall in love with rock music?<\/strong>
\nSitting in my grandmother’s kitchen, she always had solid golden oldies on the radio. The grittiest music, I was like, “That’s my s–t.”<\/p>\n

You’re often compared to ’60’s rocker Janis Joplin<\/a>. How do you feel about that comparison?<\/strong>
\nPeople hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band and they say, “Janis Joplin.” I think people just make that comparison because it’s easy. But I don’t think I sound like her at all. What do you think?…<\/p>\n

…What is your racial background?<\/strong>
\nMom is white, dad is Black.<\/p>\n

Do you identify as Black, mixed \u2014 how do you see yourself?<\/strong>
\nI’m both. Everything and nothing…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t heard of Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, the 24-year-old is making jaws drop in the music industry. Armed with ferocious vocals, passionate lyrics and a dynamic presence \u2014 on and off stage \u2014 Howard as the front woman of the Alabama Shakes is bringing rock and blues back from the grave for a new generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13743,8,20],"tags":[19690,19721,11251,19691,11419,1392],"class_list":["post-40570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alabama-shakes","tag-bet","tag-black-entertainment-television","tag-brittany-howard","tag-clay-cane","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52935,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40570\/revisions\/52935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}