Ann Powers
Ann Powers is a critic and correspondent for NPR Music. She is the author of several books, including the upcoming Good Booty: Sex and Love, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music, to be published in 2017. She lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter.
Track 17 – “Miss You” by Alabama Shakes
This song is a new model—built on a standard frame, maybe, but showing an understanding of how the blues legacy both enables the expression of chaotic emotions and streamlines them, tuning them up for maximum performance within a structure that demands precision as much as openness.
