Album: What Now by Brittany Howard (2024)
Genre: Americana
Format: Album

Description: What Now is the second solo studio album from Brittany Howard. It was released on February 9, 2024, as her label debut on Island Records.

Background and promotion
On September 12, 2023, four years after the release of her debut Jaime, Co-CEO of Island Records Justin Eshak announced that Howard had signed with the label. At the same time, Howard revealed that new music would be on its way and shared dates for her co-headlining tour with L'Rain and Becca Mancari. Starting on November 6, the tour so far entails 14 dates through North America, with more to be announced.

On October 13, Howard shared the news of an upcoming studio album and released the eponymous lead single. Produced by Howard and Shawn Everett, the "funky title track" constitutes the "truest and bluest" song on the album with lyrics that "are brutal". The song will be released as a 7-inch in December, alongside a B-side titled "Meditation".

Artist Background: Brittany Howard (born October 2, 1988) is an American musician, best known as lead vocalist and guitarist of American rock bands Alabama Shakes and Thunderbitch. Howard was born in Athens, Alabama to a white mother and an African American father. The family house was in a junk yard, and once burned down due to a lightning strike. She learned to write poetry and play the piano from her older sister Jaime, who died from retinoblastoma in 1998; Howard got the same affliction but survived with pa... Part of the Athens, Alabama, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Americana movement.

Music Scene: Part of the Athens, Alabama, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Americana movement.

Tags: Americana, 2020s, Album


What Now is the second solo studio album from Brittany Howard. It was released on February 9, 2024, as her label debut on Island Records.

Background and promotion
On September 12, 2023, four years after the release of her debut Jaime, Co-CEO of Island Records Justin Eshak announced that Howard had signed with the label. At the same time, Howard revealed that new music would be on its way and shared dates for her co-headlining tour with L'Rain and Becca Mancari. Starting on November 6, the tour so far entails 14 dates through North America, with more to be announced.

On October 13, Howard shared the news of an upcoming studio album and released the eponymous lead single. Produced by Howard and Shawn Everett, the "funky title track" constitutes the "truest and bluest" song on the album with lyrics that "are brutal". The song will be released as a 7-inch in December, alongside a B-side titled "Meditation".

What Now

Brittany Howard

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