{"id":576101,"date":"2026-07-09T02:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/576101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T02:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:06:18","slug":"alabama-shakes-announce-i-must-be-dreaming-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/576101\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Shakes Announce &#8216;I Must Be Dreaming&#8217; For August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/genre\/alabama-shakes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama Shakes<\/a><\/strong> have announced their third studio album, I Must Be Dreaming, which arrives August 28 via Island Records. The album is the band\u2019s first full-length release in more than a decade and is being introduced alongside the new single \u201cI Feel Hope Coming,\u201d available Friday, July 10. The band has also shared an album trailer ahead of the release.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Alabama Shakes with six-time Grammy Award winner Shawn Everett, I Must Be Dreaming was recorded in Nashville at Sound Emporium Studios and Blackbird Studio. The 11-track album includes the following songs: \u201cTea Time,\u201d \u201cAnother Life,\u201d \u201cGarden,\u201d \u201cI Feel Hope Coming,\u201d \u201cTime,\u201d \u201cFriends,\u201d \u201cEasy,\u201d \u201cHow Love\u2019s Supposed To Go,\u201d \u201cWaist Deep,\u201d \u201cAmerican Dream,\u201d and \u201cTied To You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brittany Howard said \u201cI Feel Hope Coming\u201d is about holding onto hope and refusing to give up, while Heath Fogg said the track came from a \u201cjoyful moment of collaboration.\u201d Howard also explained that the album\u2019s title has a double meaning, reflecting both disbelief at the state of the world and recognition of its beauty. The album follows the previously released songs \u201cAnother Life\u201d and \u201cAmerican Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Shakes are currently on a worldwide headline tour across North America and Europe in support of I Must Be Dreaming. The itinerary includes a September 2 debut at Radio City Music Hall in New York, four co-headline performances with Tedeschi Trucks Band, and a September 26 appearance at Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California. The band\u2019s 2012 debut, Boys &amp; Girls, was certified Platinum and introduced \u201cHold On,\u201d while 2015\u2019s Sound &amp; Color debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alabamashakes.lnk.to\/IMUSTBEDREAMINGPS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><b>Listen to the new single \u201cI Feel Hope Coming\u201d here.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama Shakes have announced their third studio album, I Must Be Dreaming, which arrives August 28 via Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[245380,52419,18,117,47519,245381,245382,19,17,337,6318,245383],"class_list":["post-576101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-alabama-shakes","tag-blues","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-homepage-featured","tag-i-feel-hope-coming","tag-i-must-be-dreaming","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-southern-rock"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116887577285992252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}