“You’re too kind, too kind,” she thanks them. With Jackie Wilson’s “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher,” you can tell she would be doing this - cavorting from Point A to Point B, belting to the rafters and conspiring with friends playing instruments - even if she weren’t the kind of person that gets booked for TV. Nowhere is that might more apparent than a slew of covers she sings. Her voice is clear and brawny, not gritty, so much as rippling with the cuts and scrapes that come from being alive. On “Baby,” she lets loose a high note with enough strength to draw onlookers at Muscle Beach.
ACL AUSTIN FULL
Austin saw pop history.Īny Howard performance brings to mind one question: Hey buddy, how's that voice do all that? “I know he still loves me when/ I'm smoking blunts/ Loves me when I'm drinking too much,” she croons on the soul song “He Loves Me,” her voice sweet silk. But mostly, Howard shifts her mouth to one side of her face, as if to mitigate the concussive force of the sound that emerges, because there’s no way the audience could handle the full brunt of it.
“I feel like I ain’t ever seen nobody before,” she gushes after the song, as the crowd fawns. “To the right,” then, magic hands following suit. “To the left,” Howard sings as her fingers throw energy that direction.
She bursts onto the stage with a cover of Funkadelic’s “Hit It and Quit It,” a ballsy entrée ripping at the seams with funky bass lines and guitar shreds that sounded like steel wire threading through the air. It’s hard to imagine anyone being better at this than Howard - "this" being singing, and playing, and dancing, and working a crowd, and exulting in the things that bind a former postal worker born in Limestone County with a room of masked strangers in a Texas concert hall.
ACL AUSTIN TV
But this night, Howard is taping her solo debut on one of America’s most venerated music TV shows, booked between the two weekends of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Pour yourself a drink, turn up the volume, and check out each of their sets below.The musical powerhouse isn’t a stranger to Austin stages, and especially not “Austin City Limits,” which she’s played before with her band Alabama Shakes. In 2020, a few talented Austin musicians paid a visit to the farm at the Tito's distillery in celebration of ACL Fest. The festival has eight stages where musical groups from genres ranging from rock, indie, hip-hop, electronic and more put on a show for approximately 450,000 fans each year. Over the years, we’ve introduced a signature stage, given away custom swag made for concert hopping, and a dedicated Tito’s Lounge that offers up an oasis in the midst of festival-going for our friends, family, and fans.ĪCL Fest is an annual music festival that brings people from around the world to our hometown for two three-day weekends of live music and iconic Austin food. Tito’s has continued to play a crucial role in the ACL Fest experience for both artists and attendees. Word of mouth has always been a pillar of how we got to where we are today, and it worked so well that the Tito’s Sweet-O became one of the first cocktails ACL Fest served up. That second year of ACL Fest, Tito Beveridge – founder and master distiller of Tito’s Handmade Vodka (and devoted music fan) – was a one-man show pouring samples, mixing drinks, and telling folks about his vodka distilled right down the road.
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