{"id":58956,"date":"2019-09-26T00:28:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T00:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58956"},"modified":"2019-09-26T01:46:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T01:46:43","slug":"brittany-howard-finds-freedom-after-alabama-shakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58956","title":{"rendered":"Brittany Howard finds freedom after Alabama Shakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brittany Howard finds freedom after Alabama Shakes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2019-09-25<\/p>\n

Mark Savage<\/strong><\/a>, BBC music reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Brittany<\/a>
\nBrittany Howard<\/a>: “If I was going to make a solo record, I knew it had to be something true.” Brantley Gutierrez<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In the middle of making her new album, Brittany Howard<\/a> decided to record the air conditioner.<\/em><\/p>\n

Holding a microphone to ceiling, she captured the unit’s electromagnetic pulse, turned it into a tape loop<\/a>, then transposed it onto a keyboard.<\/p>\n

“In the end, I think we were overly ambitious,” she reflects. “Because it turned out to be terrible.”<\/p>\n

The experiment may have been scrapped, but it illustrates the sense of freedom Howard felt as she made her first solo album…<\/p>\n

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

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