Classic Chevy Square Body Featured in Music Video
Video has the trifecta of cool: a great song, Terry Crews, and a sweet Chevy pickup.
We spotted this music video by Brittany Howard trending on You Tube, and we knew Chevy fans would love it. The video for Howard’s “Stay High” features actor (and all-around awesome guy) Terry Crews driving a classic 1970s square body Chevy pickup. It is a perfect choice for the style and mood of the video, and we love it.
In the video we see the Brooklyn 99 actor leaving his job for the day, and driving home, singing along to the radio. He lip-syncs along with the song as he stops along the way to run some errands before heading home to his family. It’s a simple but powerful look at the working man, and his still-solid-after-all-these-years ride.
If you’re not familiar with Howard, she is a vocal powerhouse and gifted guitar player with her band, the Alabama Shakes. Howard’s voice is a beautiful mix of blues, soul, funk, stripped-down garage rock; and evokes her down-home Southern roots. The song is the first single from her solo album “History Repeats.” She went home to Alabama to shoot the video featuring Crews and many of her friends and neighbors singing along to “Stay High” on a mellow evening.
“This video is shot in my home town of Athens, Alabama. The actors are my family and friends,” Howard wrote in a press release. “Terry Crews plays a man who isn’t out to change the world, he plays a man who just wants to come home to those who understand and love him best. We see his inner beauty, grace, and humanity in a place that is so often misunderstood.”
The video is a tribute to her father, K.J. Howard, which makes the ending all the more lovely and poignant.
“I got an email from the Brittany Howard, asking me to be a part of a song she wrote that was all about her dad and how special he was to the family. And she poured her heart out in this letter. I couldn’t believe it,” Terry Crews told NPR. “Brittany was like, ‘We can shoot it in L.A.,’ and I said, ‘No, I’m coming to you, we’re going to Alabama. We’re going to where you grew up, to where your family is.”
Check out the video to see how the concept came together so seamlessly, in no small part to a classic Chevy truck.
