Musician’s Work (feat. Brittany Howard)

For the season finale of Object of Sound, a reminder that you are an artist, regardless of what you do for work. Before Brittany Howard became a striking soloist and lead singer of Alabama Shakes, she worked at Cracker Barrel, sold cars, and even delivered mail in rural Alabama. In this episode, Hanif and Brittany reflect on how they preserved their creative lives and taught themselves writing and music while on the job. They dive into a shared love of funk and Brittany reveals how she learned to play guitar as a kid from reading magazines. Plus, a playlist of songs to soundtrack your work day. After this episode, we’re going to take a break. Season Two of Object of Sound picks up June 18th! Stay tuned. For the playlist of songs curated for this episode, visit http://bit.ly/oos-work

/Show Notes/

Brittany Howard’s most recent album is Jaime.

Hanif and Brittany talk about Bill Withers and Brittany’s cover of Parliament Funkadelic’s “You and Your Folks.”

Brittany cites Vulfpeck and BadBadNotGood as the bands with funk rhythm sections that she admires.

Brittany adds “Ain’t It Hard” by Sharon Jones,“Cold Sweat” by James Brown, “Oh Marie”

by Louis Prima and “The Prophet’s Song” by Queen to a playlist of songs for the work day.

/Music In This Week's Playlist/

You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks, Brittany Howard covering Funkadelic

The Prophet’s Song, Queen

Pressure, Paramore

Ain’t it Hard, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

Tears of Rage, The Band

People Everyday, Arrested Development

Time’s a Wastin, Erykah Badu

/ Credits /

Object of Sound is a Sonos show produced by work x work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, and Babette Thomas. The show is additionally produced by Hanif Abdurraqib. Our engineers are Sam Bair and Josh Hahn of The Relic Room.