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Alabama Shakes: Earthshaking!

Andy Gill, Uncut, July 2012

The South has risen again! How Alabama Shakes became the best — and the biggest — new band of 2012. "They make me think of when I was with Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, Duck Dunn and Otis Redding," says Booker T. "I haven't seen that type of group coming together for a lot of years."

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