Alabama ShakesSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

She invited him to a party where she says “he met everybody from our side of the tracks.” The three young musicians began working together further expanding their style and approach.The trio soon went into a studio in Decatur to record some of the songs they were working up and this proto-demo found its way into the hands of Heath Fogg with whom Howard had been familiar because he had been the lead guitarist in what she describes as “the best band in our high school.” Fogg who by now had graduated from college asked them to open a show for his band which they agreed to do—on the condition that he play with them.When they appeared at a Nashville record store people started to take notice of the group’s relentless hard-charging live attack and Howard’s magnetic stage presence.

One especially ardent fan raved about the band to his friends which included Justin Gage the founder of the Aquarium Drunkard blog. Gage wrote to Howard asking if he could post one of the Shakes’ songs.

She sent back the yearning intense “You Ain’t Alone” which he put up in late July calling it “a slice of the real.” And literally overnight all hell broke loose.