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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Kennedy

Alabama Shakes returns with a new album after 11 years and a reunion at a craft brewery gig

Alabama Shakes Portrait Session - (2026 Invision)

Alabama Shakes has returned with the band's first album in 11 years and it turns out that craft beer played a big part in the reunion. Not drinking it, exactly.

Singer and guitarist Brittany Howard was chilling following her second solo album, 2024's “What Now,” when she was contacted by Bo Hicks, the co-founder of the Druid City Brewing Company in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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