Pushkin.

The root-synis of the Alabama Shakes is super refreshing, which is why their success after

the first release, Boys and Girls, in 2012, wasn't surprising.

But it did seem to happen really, really fast.

In fact, their lead singer, Brittany Howard, was still delivering mail for the postal service

while writing some songs for the album.

It wound up with three Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist.

Plus the album's lead single, Hold On, was named Song of the Year by Rolling Stone.

Unlike most rock music these days, you can hear the blues in their sound.

But the shakes don't sound like a Thorback Act.

They just sound soulful and funky and modern and rock-us, all at the same time.

This song, Dooms, is from their second and most recent album Sound and Color.

It earned the group's six Grammy nominations after it came out in 2016.

All the success surprised Brittany Howard, the band's powerhouse vocalist guitarist and

songwriter, because she worked through a serious bout of writer's block to get that done.

That writer's block returned when she and the band got together to make a third album.

But this time, when she dug deep to write, something more personal came out, leading her

to put the band on hold for a second and write some songs for herself.

This is Georgia from Brittany's debut solo album titled Jamie.

On this week's Broken Record, Brittany talks with Rick Rubin about how a couple of these

songs came together, what it was like to create and perform by herself, and later in the

interview, Brittany starts asking Rick questions and things get kind of weird.

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