People say I seem really confident, but they don’t understand what I’ve been through,” says Brittany Howard. “I’m like a piece of hot metal that’s been strengthened by being thrust into cold water. I’ve been tempered by life.”
It’s a hazy morning in Nashville, Tennessee, where Howard, 31, is video-calling from her porch, accompanied by her amiable menagerie of cats and dogs. Warm, open, and supremely comfortable in her own skin, the five-time Grammy winner certainly does seem confident. Her new album What Now is similarly bold – an eclectic, ambitious set that, like all great soul music, transforms heartache and agony into magic and joy
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