Last time Alabama Shakes released a new track “Game of Thrones” was still in production, Baker Mayfield was college football’s best player and Jenna Ortega wasn’t old enough to legally purchase cigarettes. In other words it was 2017.
That summer, soul-rock band the Shakes released “Killer Diller Blues,” as part of a PBS documentary “The American Epic Sessions” co-produced by musician Jack White . “Killer Diller Blues,” a cover of Memphis Minnie -- a 1940s singer/guitarist best known for her posthumously Led Zeppelin -famed song “When the Levee Breaks” -- won Alabama Shakes their fourth Grammy in nine nominations.
Eight years later, Alabama Shakes have dropped a new track, “Another Life.” It’s actually the band’s first original song since Grammy-winning 2015 album “Sound & Color,