Alabama Shakes were fantastic last night, I could only see Brittany Howard from where I was, and I feel sorry for the rest of her excellent band but that’s all I needed to see. She was a force, a fury, commanding the stage like a rock star, and the public was responding to each of her howls with cheers and claps with cheers and claps in a way I have rarely witnessed at a concert. The show was a triumphant succession of their ‘Sound & Color’ songs alternating with songs off their first album, ‘Boys & Girls’… It did not matter which one they were playing, Brittany Howard tackled all her songs with the same visceral passion and she gave me chills during a 80ºF summer night.
