1.Hold On 03:46
2.I Found You 02:59
3.Hang Loose 02:24
4.Rise To The Sun 03:08
5.You Ain't Alone 04:44
6.Goin' To The Party 01:45
7.Heartbreaker 03:47
8.Boys & Girls 03:25
9.Be Mine 04:14
10.I Ain't The Same 02:55
11.On Your Way 03:05

    Zac Cockrell – bass, backing vocals, guitar
    Heath Fogg – guitar, backing vocals, percussion
    Brittany Howard – lead vocals, guitar, piano, percussion
    Steve Johnson – drums, percussion, backing vocals
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    Paul Horton – Farfisa and Rhodes (4), piano and organ (5)
    Micah Hulscher – piano and organ (2,3)
    Mitch Jones – organ (7)
    Ben Tanner – piano and organ (9)

The Alabama Shakes’ first album, "Boys & Girls," is an electric jolt that anyone who loves blues-based rock music should track down immediately. Consisting of three men and one young explosion named Brittany Howard on vocals and guitar, the group, which formed in northern Alabama in 2009, offers stripped down truth, minus any affectation, histrionics or irony.

Rather, the Shakes make rock & soul music as if the last 40 years of popular sounds had never happened; you won’t hear a single hip-hop rhythm, disco beat, tripped out guitar effect or dubstep bass drop on "Boys & Girls." Songs instead suggest that sweet period from 1966 to 1974 when electric blues and rock music were intermingling: the Rolling Stones circa "Let It Bleed," Janis Joplin at her 1968 peak and Otis Redding and the classic Stax Records house band on "Heartbreaker." You can even hear a hint of Bob Marley-esque roots reggae guitar on the opening song, "Rise to the Sun."

To mention the group alongside such luminaries is dangerous, but one listen to the seminal riff on "Hang Loose" should silence any doubters: You’ll wonder how the world has never produced this eternal lick until now. Or, actually, Howard’s huge gospel-inspired voice will shut you up whether you like it or not. The same could be said for half a dozen other riffs, choruses and joyous refrains on "Boys & Girls," a record that grows with each listen. --- latimesblogs.latimes.com

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1 	Sound & Color 	3:02
2 	Don't Wanna Fight 	3:53
3 	Dunes 	4:18
4 	Future People 	3:22
5 	Gimme All Your Love 	4:03
6 	This Feeling 	4:29
7 	Guess Who 	3:16
8 	The Greatest 	3:50
9 	Shoegaze 	2:59
10 	Miss You 	3:47
11 	Gemini 	6:36
12 	Over My Head 	3:51
13	The Greatest (Live From The Artists Den)	3:19
14	Gimme All Your Love (Live From The Artists Den)	4:14
15	Joe (Live From The Artists Den)		3:36

Zac Cockrell 	Bass, Percussion
Heath Fogg 	 Guitar, Percussion
Paul Horton 	Keyboards
Brittany Howard 	Guitar, Keyboards, Percussion, Vibraphone, Vocals
Steve Johnson 	Drums, Percussion
Blake Mills 	Guitar, Percussion, Vibraphone
Rob Moose 	Strings
Ben Tanner 	Keyboards, Percussion, Vibraphone 

On their 2012 debut Boys & Girls, Alabama Shakes never hid that they were creatures of the New South -- a band with old-fashioned blues, soul, gospel, and country in their blood but raised on modern rock. On their 2015 follow-up, Sound & Color, they free themselves from the vestiges of the past, let loose, and push themselves further in either direction. This could've resulted in a disjointed record pulling itself in two opposing directions, but the mess of Sound & Color is invigorating, likely because the album uses its title as a creed. Where Boys & Girls sometimes seemed a shade austere -- the band took pains to color within the lines, almost as if to convey their good taste -- Sound & Color bursts with oversaturated hues so vivid they seem almost tangible. Such deep digressions into shade and light accentuate both the group's roots and modernity, but the very fact that they chase after such bold, elastic sounds signals they're hardly a throwback. Plus, the group's attack is muscular here: there's a strong, boundless funk to "Don't Wanna Fight," but there's a similar power behind the slow-churning soul ballad "Gimme All Your Love." Often, Sound & Color takes flight when Alabama Shakes channel that energy into ever-shifting, liquid performances that almost feel like roots psychedelia, typified by "Future People" skipping off its tight Memphis groove with spooky harmonies and thudding fuzz. Such unaffected weird flourishes are evidence that Alabama Shakes are creatures of their time and place -- they play Southern soul-rock in an era where the past is indistinguishable from the present, and how the band interlaces the old and the new on Sound & Color feels startlingly fresh. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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