“Goat Head” recounts an incident Howard learns of long after it happened: In retaliation for her very presence, her birth to an interracial couple, her father’s tires are slashed, the severed head of a goat placed in the back seat of his car and blood spread around the vehicle. This anti-black hate crime is the grotesque kind for which the South is infamous, made more egregious by the silence that surrounds it, the culprits unrevealed and unpunished. The song is both a memoir of this moment and the preface to a retribution ritual.N.Y. Times review of Brittany Howard's first
solo album after leaving Alabama Shakes.
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