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Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith is The Independent’s Chief Culture Writer, specialising in profile interviews. He was previously the Head of Culture & Lifestyle, having joined the Indy in 2018 from The Telegraph, where he was Music Editor, as well as a TV and film critic.

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‘I had never heard a song, much less an R&B song or in black music, where a woman was singing a love song to another woman’

Brittany Howard: ‘I didn’t want to end up back in the trailer park’

On the release of her debut solo album ‘Jaime’, the Alabama Shakes frontwoman talks to Patrick Smith about growing up gay in the American South, spending her childhood playing in a junkyard, and why she thinks people voted for Trump 

Brittany Howard: ‘I didn’t want to end up back in the trailer park’

On the release of her debut solo album ‘Jaime’, the Alabama Shakes frontwoman talks to Patrick Smith about growing up gay in the American South, spending her childhood playing in a junkyard, and why she thinks people voted for Trump 

‘I had never heard a song, much less an R&B song or in black music, where a woman was singing a love song to another woman’

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