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hey - why such little talk about this kickass band? Any fellow diehards? Anyone seen them / planning to see them on their current tour? How about a POX or Search and Destroy?

For me, I'd search almost everything, especially Pizza Deliverance and Decoration Day, destroy a little over half of Southern Rock Opera(except Cooley's songs, they all rule).

Me and the lady have tix to see them here in NYC on Halloween - psyched!! May try to hit the Michigan gig on the 7th too...

― roger adultery, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:33 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

*raises hand*

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:27 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

they're actually coming to State College next month. Just listened to Alabama Ass-Whuppin' two nights ago. I keep forgetting to apologize to Chuck for ignorantly mockin' them a while back. Great band. (though I still need to buy Pizza Deliverance and Southern Rock Opera).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:29 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

I think Decoration Day is (even) better than their other albums. they keep getting better album by album, no small thing. never seen 'em, for which, rest assured, I kick myself repeatedly on a daily basis.

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:33 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

They played at the annual free festival on campus (opening for Jimmy Eat World!!) circa Southern Rock, but I was doing a radio show when they were playing. Glad they're coming back to let me rectify the situation.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 01:17 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

I've seen them every time they've come through town over the course of the last two years or so, which has been a lot. Each time I walk into the show thinking, alright, this will be the night they let me down, and each time I leave with even more admiration for them than before. Fortunately, there is such a dedicated DBT tapers circle that I've been able to track down several of the shows I've seen, and the recordings bear out my initial thoughts. In fact, their recent shows have been among the best I've ever seen from anyone. I most recently saw them the night after Johnny Cash died, but they had the good taste not to do a Cash cover. Instead, they wrote a song about him, and it's a good one (and may still be up on their site). They did, however, cover Warren Zevon's "Play It All Night Long," and it kicked as much ass as their cover of "People Who Died."

Those shows are pretty futhermucking loud, though. On night two I occasionally popped in earplugs, which I never do. Do I smell a thread? "Earplugs at Shows?"

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 12:40 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

I'm seeing them in Birmingham tomorrow night, my sixth DBT show and hopefully not my last. They do have a demo of "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" up on their website, http://www.drivebytruckers.com/.

― largehearted boy (largeheartedboy), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:03 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

fan-friggin-tastic. though they tend to veer off into jam-band territory during live shows. decoration day is easily in my Top 5 (perhaps even 3) albums of the year.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:37 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

whooo!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:53 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

They come this month -- or next month -- to NYC. 18 Wheels Of Love is so NOT a novelty song.

She had three televisions just like Elvis, the King, used to have...

― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

Josh - would love to get ahold of some of those live tapes. Email me if interested in dubs / trades / etc.
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Okay, now that there's enough of us - How 'bout a Pick Only Ten? Here's mine, off teh top of my head:

1. The Company I Keep
2. Love Like This
3. Whiskey Without Women
4. Sink Hole
5. Wife Beater
6. Dead Drunk & Naked
7. Nine Bullets
8. Guitar Man Upstairs
9. Margo & Harold
10.Marry Me

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 16 October 2003 03:11 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

so far I like them
but I do not love them though
I know that's MY fault

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 16 October 2003 03:19 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

CINNIBLOUNT TO THREAD!

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 16 October 2003 04:00 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

Echo Decoration Day as a top-fiver. But also love some other tracks--Why Henry Drinks, Panties in Your Purse.
Tomorrow night they are in Memphis!

― elle (elle), Thursday, 16 October 2003 14:23 (fifteen years ago) Permalink

eight months pass...

What I posted on another thread yesterday:

>Playing the new Drive By Truckers album *Dirty South* now. It sounds even more tired than their last one; they've totally given up on trying to be Skynyrd, which sucks. Not horrible, though. Better than Patterson Hood's solo CD, I guess. So I bet it gets very good reviews.<

I'm now convinced, by the way, that *Dirty South* is their worst album ever, by far. The first song rocks okay, but just about everything else drags drags drags, almost 100 percent ballads, damn near no fucking memorable melodies, no fucking energy, nothing. Track #4 is okay, probably some others here and there, I forget which ones. Sometimes the high singing is kinda pretty, and the thing definitely is better to play at work than in a car, since the record does not move AT ALL. "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" strikes me as pandering bullshit. Track #9, "Cottonseed," is one of the most tedious, interminable songs I've heard all year. If somebody really believes I'm missing something, I wish they would explain what it is. Their three EARLY albums (as in pre Southern Rock Opera) blow this one out of the water, if anybody's curious.

― chuck, Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:17 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

worse than the Rob Malone tracks on Southern Rock Opera?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:27 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

You mean, like, "Cassie's Brother," which is probably better than anything on *Decoration Day*? Yeah, way worse than that. Not even close.

― chuck, Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:37 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

Is that song that Cooley sings about NASCAR on this album? I saw them do it live about four months ago and it was definitely a crowd pleaser. I gotta tell you, I'm sorry to hear your report ...

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:23 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

They are the loudest band I've ever heard live.

― TheNewJMod (JMod), Sunday, 20 June 2004 03:32 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

Seeing Patterson Wednesday - can't wait.

Chuck's description doesn't worry me one bit if he really thinks "Cassie's Brother" is better than Decoration Day.

And yes, JMod, I agree - one of the loudest (and best) live shows i've ever seen.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 20 June 2004 05:32 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

Who exactly is "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" pandering to? I mean, any more than Big and Rich are pandering, which you've gotta admit they totally are in places (ie. that whole race thing never made sense to me blahblah bullshit), even though I do still really like the CD.

Now, I haven't heard the Dirty South yet so I guess I can't sufficiently respond, but what I'd heard live sounded terrific.

Mr. Deeds 100% OTM about "Daddy's Cup" - blew me away live, and honestly unless they TOTALLY changed the demo version on the website and the way they play it live for the record, I'm really surprised Chuck wouldn't like "Carl Perkins" 'cause it's got such a GREAT poppy riff on it, one of the catchiest I've heard all year.

"Where the Devil Don't Stay" was a great rocker live as well, and "Danko/Manuel" was a terrific ballad to these ears. I will admit that Patterson's songs did sound kind of weak in comparison to Cooley and Isbell, and of course again I haven't actually heard the album so I might be totally off base altogether.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Sunday, 20 June 2004 06:56 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

yeah and Roger OTM about "Cassie's Brother" vs. All Of Decoration Day - I mean, c'mon, next to "Outfit" and "Sink Hole" and "Marry Me" and the title track, "Cassie's Brother" is a dud.

I will say however that I agree with Chuck about missing the humor and playfulness of the first three rekkids, the Truckers definitely do take themselves a little too seriously from time to time nowadays and I'd sure love it if they'd inject a little bit of that Panties in Your Purse/Steve McQueen/Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus) spirit into their newer stuff.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Sunday, 20 June 2004 07:01 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

The two times I saw DBT live (once on the Southern Rock Opera tour -- a show so disappointing that it convinced me not to vote for their album the year it came out {it finally wound up being my number two behind Rocket from the Tombs a year later}; once on the Decoration Day tour) they weren't loud at all -- Again, I wanted them to be Skynyrd (or at least try to be Skynyrd), and they just came out as an alt-country ballad band with way too much of the lazy drunken Replacements shtick I was sick of by 1986. I'm playing "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" right now; it's not that catchy -- a better than average Tom Petty song, at best. Jangly, I guess. I think it's pandering to the same people that the Dixie Chicks are pandering to when they drop Johnny Cash's and Merle Haggard's names in their otherwise excellent "Long Time Gone" (and all kinds of country songs in recent years pander to elsewhere): i.e., people who pat themselves on the back for knowing about music history. And its pandering is a lot less fun than the pandering on Southern Rock Opera (maybe because Lynyrd Skynyrd is more fun than Carl Perkins? could be), not to mention the pandering on on Big & Rich's album. And I can't follow the story, to be honest. And it doesn't rock. It's a stodgy old whitebread alt-country powerpop history book, and to hell with it, you know?

― chuck, Monday, 21 June 2004 14:16 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

In other news (in re: other "Dirty South* tracks plugged above), "Daddy's Cup" sounds alright I guess - A car song with a car rhythm; kinda monotonous, but at least it's got a bit of forward motion chugging it ahead. "Danko/Manuel" is an amorphous, deadassed bore of a ballad, trudging along aimlessly and hooklessly for almost six quiet minutes. And "Where The Devil Don't Stay," as I admit above, does indeed rock.

― chuck, Monday, 21 June 2004 14:28 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

Basically, though, I still believe they should release "Where the Devil Don't Stay" as a single, and relieve people of the burden of having to buy the whole album.

― chuck, Monday, 21 June 2004 14:31 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

I wanted them to be Skynyrd (or at least try to be Skynyrd

the key line

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:41 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

Ballads < Rockstuff.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:49 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

you can have both, esp. when you accept that the band's not gonna play "freebird."

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:53 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

though that's a ballad too! heck, my fave skynyrd is "Simple Man"!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:54 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

*Southern Rock Opera* DID have both rockstuff and ballads. But at least the ballads on that album rocked. (As do "Free Bird" and "Simple Man" and "Tuesday's Gone" etc.) The problem with DBT is that they've almost entirely given up on rocking. THEY'RE the one who chose one style over the other, not me. (Their best song is still "Zip City," as far as I'm concerned, by the way.)

― chuck, Monday, 21 June 2004 15:07 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

I'm pretty saddened by the idea of a rock-free DBT album, I'll admit.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:13 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

Frankly I wish they'd drop one element of Lynyrdism and not have a third songwriter. Neither Rob Malone or Jason Isbell ever did much for me.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:14 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

third guitarist/songwriter, I mean.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:14 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

"Their best song is still "Zip City," as far as I'm concerned, by the way."

I'll agree with this. Ah well, can't really argue with Chuck on this until I gets me a copy of Dirty South myself.

And I really like Isbell BTW, I thought his two contributions to Decoration Day were among the best on the album, and at least when I saw it performed live, I thought "Danko/Manuel" was absolutely haunting.

I can see Chuck's point about pandering as far the Dixie Chicks are concerned b/c that song did seem specifically geared to orient themselves in the "don't make 'em like they usedta" camp, but I don't see it with "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" - I mean, that's what the song's about, y'know? It doesn't seem to me to be contrived in the least, certainly it is a "history lesson" and maybe that's a bore for some, but I don't see it as pandering at all.

Funny you mentioned "Long Time Gone" Chuck b/c I referenced that song in my Stylus review of Gretchen Wilson today, how she's big-upping Bocephus while the Chicks prefer Hank Sr.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=2093

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:50 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

CeCe you're crazy dude, Isbell is a FANTASTIC songwriter

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:51 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

he's definitely better than Rob Malone, but his doesn't really get to me like Hood and Cooley's best do.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 21 June 2004 20:55 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

>>I don't see it with "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" - I mean, that's what the song's about, y'know? It doesn't seem to me to be contrived in the least, certainly it is a "history lesson" and maybe that's a bore for some<<

I might not think the history lesson was such a bore if it was, say, "Michael Murphey's Cadillac, actually -- which would be way more clever, too, given Geronimo's and all. (Plus, the Kentucky Headhunters did a better song about Carl Perkins on a way better Southern Rock/country album LAST year. And it was easily one of the lesser songs on *that* album.)

― chuck, Monday, 21 June 2004 21:57 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

yeah, the new album is pretty sparkless and a lot more jammy, which is OK but I wish they'd get out of their torpor. I liked that on Decoration Day they were obviously pissed off at the world/fucked in life; they wrote great songs from it. this time they seem to have said, "Let's get looser on this one," and they did, but they're so much better when they're both at once.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 21 June 2004 22:19 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

Do any of you have any idea why I can't find DBT CDs in Japan? I can find pretty much anything here, but DBT's label or seems to have no Japanese distributer or something (I really have no idea how it works).

― Debito (Debito), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 02:19 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

two months pass...

Man I really love this album. Only a smidge less than Decoration Day, but liking this one more with every listen. Fucking Isbell, man. "Danko / Manuel" and "Goddam Lonely Love." Met him the other night (on my birthday!) and he was really nice (they all are)

I honestly can't remember the last time I was actually excited to meet a band - comes with the territory of being a rock journo I guess

Anyway, I wholeheartedly disagree with chuck upthread - and if you miss the lighthearted stuff, well, there's two songs about Walking Tall, fer chrissakes!! What do you want?? What's more lighthearted than Walking goddamm Tall? :)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:41 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

I keep listening to this and I can sort of hear the criticisms about the music being a little slack but these have got to be some of the angriest songs on earth right about now. The voices just keep grabbing at me.

They were on Conan last night and they did an Isbell song I think. How old is that kid? His lyrics are just too much. So well written and so fucking defiant. He was all dressed up and looked like an American Idol contestant singing about his sort of fucked up/backwoods life and how he doesn't (or can't, I guess) give a shit. It was pretty perfect.

He knows his southern writers I guess.

― danh (danh), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:03 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

It's awesome. i reviewed it and am still kicking myself for not giving it enough love. isbell really has it. he's about 25 - older then you'd think, still carrying the puppy fat.

god, i love them truckers.

― Peter Watts (peterw), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:14 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

so which should be my first album? Decoration Day?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:17 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

it's the best i reckon, but southern rock opera is more immediate. pizza deliverance is a blast, but less, er, authored.

― Peter Watts (peterw), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:19 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

I wasn't planning on buying this (if Chuck's review was otm I knew how painful the experience would be), but the three mp3s on their site are terrific. Maybe the rest is too slow but those three had great hooks and the kind of guitar interplay I die for. I'll get it today and I feel like a shmuck for waiting this long.

(judging from the song samples I heard on Northern State's site he's dead on about that album though)

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:31 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

fell asleep to this last night on conan, but i was beat, i'm interested though

― kephm, Friday, 17 September 2004 15:40 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

Those aren't even the best songs on the record.

― danh (danh), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:50 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

I really want to hear a Jason solo album. Cooley too.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 17 September 2004 15:51 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

Seeing them tonight in NYC!

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:00 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

(And here's to an Isbell solo record, that would be great).

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:01 (fourteen years ago) Permalink

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Recent stuff is definitely more self-aware/on the nose. Less angry, more sad.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 21:57 (two years ago) Permalink

Hood's described them as "lyrics-driven," but starting with The Big To Do and English Oceans (not counting Go-Go Boots, cos outtakes from TBTD sessions, though some are fine), I got into the sounds right away, and more than the lyrics, in some cases.

― dow, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 22:08 (two years ago) Permalink

patterson & cooley are now trying harder to sing now which i understand ie wanting to be better technically etc but it was part of the charm for me, i kinda liked the sing-talk delivery of the older stuff

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 23:52 (two years ago) Permalink

I can't wait to hear it. How many bands are still making vital music on the 11th studio album? This is one of the alltime great bands.

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 00:33 (two years ago) Permalink

xpost I never thought of the old stuff as sing-talk, so much as good old fashioned shouting! They're also getting older. Patterson is 52, Cooley is 50. Both are definitely trying harder to sing, because I don't think they could perform as much if they kept blowing out their voices on a regular basis. They drink (at least) less, too. Anyway, I listen to them now as mostly great singer-songwriters and try not to compare them to their past high water marks. They're different people, and a different band.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 01:46 (two years ago) Permalink

Wow, "Surrender Under Protest" is great, Cooley has a tremendous way of simplifying complicated issues into great songs.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 23 June 2016 14:14 (two years ago) Permalink

Cooley has become the more reliable songwriter, I think. Before English Oceans Cooley would generally only contribute three or four songs per album, but the 50/50 split behooves them. Really liking my advance of the new album, actually, especially for Cooley's songs, but a couple of surefire hreatbreaking Hood tracks like "Guns of Umpqua" help, and his "When the Sun Don't Shine" doesn't sound like anything else he's written.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:10 (two years ago) Permalink

And this one is a keeper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-j3Vmspxc

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:25 (two years ago) Permalink

three months pass...

Have loved to Truckers for, wow, maybe 15 years now? More? 16? Anyway, I need to give the new one some more time.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 October 2016 01:15 (two years ago) Permalink

Time is passing. Their records do hold up to continued listening. I always thought the multiple singers and songwriters made many bands records more interesting.

I got one sad funny story about the last time I saw The Drive By Truckers live a few years back. I was taking the lady I was dating for a couple months to the show and she had me get a ticket for a friend of her's to go and she would pay me back later. That's cool I figured...we went to the gig had a grand time and then pretty much afterwards I got the ole' never returning your call ever again treatment. For some reason it oddly seemed appropriate, except if it was a DBT song the band in question would have been Blackfoot.

― earlnash, Monday, 3 October 2016 03:53 (two years ago) Permalink

The new one is exceptionally good.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 3 October 2016 19:50 (two years ago) Permalink

def their best in a long time, p much no filler

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 3 October 2016 20:04 (two years ago) Permalink

oh my god you guys -- this album is a stone fucking bore. Not a single interesting rhythm: two songwriters strumming to the same backbeat. By the time I got to "What It Means" I couldn't be bothered with listening to the hot takes on racism and America Today.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2016 20:21 (two years ago) Permalink

Their last record I cared about was released in 2008.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2016 20:22 (two years ago) Permalink

*jordan shrug* idk man

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 3 October 2016 20:44 (two years ago) Permalink

and I like songs on every record since 2010 (I like the opener on this one) but it's all ehhhh

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2016 20:45 (two years ago) Permalink

Well, that's what makes horse racing.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 3 October 2016 21:23 (two years ago) Permalink

xp i will say that its def kinda monochromatic, sonically, more so than some of their other records. i just think they happened to pick a sound they do really, really well. an album like Go-Go Boots is way more adventurous musically but there are huge duds on it (fireplace poker, anybody?) same thing's true of english oceans, which starts p good and just kinda peters out, or the big to-do, which has by far one of their best songs ever ("birthday boy") and also real weak tracks like "flying wallendas" and "eyes like glue" (the v rare cooley misfire)

none of these is ever gonna be Dirty South-level again. granted, thats a p high bar.

― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 3 October 2016 21:29 (two years ago) Permalink

I do think the arrangements are dull, but especially Cooley's lyrics are better than ever. I think I'd be into it more if I approached it as more of a loud folk record.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 October 2016 21:29 (two years ago) Permalink

Their last record I cared about was released in 2008.

I agree with this, and if anything BTCD is underrated

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 3 October 2016 22:45 (two years ago) Permalink

Their best, which means, yes, better than The Dirty South, Decoration Day, and the Shonda tunes on BTCD.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2016 22:52 (two years ago) Permalink

BTCD is their peak, I think. Ever since then it's been just a little too much yet not quite enough. Still love 'em, still great live, etc.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 03:00 (two years ago) Permalink

OK, listening again, and there are some great, great songs (esp. Cooley's) and performances. But I think the problem may be as simple as sequencing. "Darkened Flags" is just not a terribly good song, and it sort of kills the momentum before it even begins, especially between "Ramon Casiano" and "Surrender Under Protest."

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:00 (two years ago) Permalink

nine months pass...

Watching them kill it right now. Right band for the right time.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 July 2017 01:09 (one year ago) Permalink

just covered The KKK Took My Baby Away!

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 July 2017 01:35 (one year ago) Permalink

Best tracks of their last LP: "Ramon Casiano" (another biting Cooley song), "Surrender Under Protest", "Guns Of Umpqua" and "Ever South".

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 21 July 2017 02:13 (one year ago) Permalink

three months pass...

Wow, just heard that awesome brand new song they snuck out. Called The Perilous Night, and it is without question the most political thing they've written to date. Calls out Trump by name, and so on. Hood on point.

Incidentally heard it in tandem with a new Neil Young protest song, Already Great, which sounded pretty awesome too.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 November 2017 18:19 (one year ago) Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luoe-6ok_TE

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 November 2017 19:31 (one year ago) Permalink

Not into the political stuff. Not why I listen to DBT.

― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:23 (one year ago) Permalink

Weird. They've always been pretty political!

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 November 2017 22:53 (one year ago) Permalink

Dad drunk and Amex

― calstars, Sunday, 12 November 2017 23:21 (one year ago) Permalink

It's okay. And every song by every act is political. Breathing clean air is a political act.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 November 2017 23:27 (one year ago) Permalink

Women Without ILX

― calstars, Monday, 13 November 2017 00:04 (one year ago) Permalink

Angels and SNA

― calstars, Monday, 13 November 2017 00:08 (one year ago) Permalink

Wow, the enthusiasm is overwhelming.

Seriously, if this is not why you listen to the Drive-By Truckers, then I guess I don't know why any of you listen to the Drive-By Truckers.

And every song by every act is political.

Oh, come on.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 November 2017 00:22 (one year ago) Permalink

I think they've always been political, but in the new song they name names.

I love the DBTs even though their work is very disciplined and rarely exciting. I'm seeing them live in Feb and also seeing Cooley and Hood's local solo shows.

― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Monday, 13 November 2017 02:05 (one year ago) Permalink

If you're gay, every love song is political.

This song is topical.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 November 2017 02:11 (one year ago) Permalink

I thought the political songs on the last album were great but this one’s pretty awful. Boring music, super on the nose lyrics.

― louise ck (milo z), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 04:17 (one year ago) Permalink

This is fucking awful. I can just sense that my opinion is in some way regressive or rockist or whatever, but so be it. I wouldn't run screaming from a room where this was being played, but who could actually get into this

― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 05:23 (one year ago) Permalink

God knows we need something from music right now, but it's not a cringey, ham fisted explication of a sensible if obvious POV, set to pubrock

― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 05:40 (one year ago) Permalink

truly sorry for the triple dip, but I do want to say I love the exultant defiant The High Road by Isbell, which deals just as directly with this administration. I guess it's because the message is, transcend it instead of griping about it or wallowing in it. TPN's message is more suited to an op-ed or blog post imo

― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 14 November 2017 05:48 (one year ago) Permalink

Into the Perilous Night: An Essay by Patterson Hood

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:41 (one year ago) Permalink

I mostly like the riff and the faster than usual tempo. I also like Hood in righteous mode.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:04 (one year ago) Permalink

xpost that's a great essay, I love his honesty.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 23:16 (one year ago) Permalink

He's a fantastic writer.

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 16 November 2017 02:17 (one year ago) Permalink

three weeks pass...

Something about the wrinkle in your forehead
Tells me there’s a fit about to be thrown
If we get the van out of the ditch before the morning
Ain’t nobody gotta know about what I’ve done

― calstars, Saturday, 9 December 2017 04:27 (one year ago) Permalink

three months pass...

As good as I have ever seen them tonight, and I've seen them a lot!

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 7 April 2018 03:23 (eight months ago) Permalink

five months pass...

They just released an album by Hood/ Cooley’s 80s band Adam’s House Cat, with re-recorded vocals. It is excellent as usual. If you haven’t heard it yet, definitely check it out.

― kornrulez6969, Monday, 24 September 2018 00:18 (two months ago) Permalink

Saw them again last night, playing a truncated set at a beer fest. Great as usual, if shorter than usual. Hold Steady opened!

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 September 2018 02:16 (two months ago) Permalink

I was so worried the Adam's House Cat album would sound like some alt-era reject, but it actually sounds like a lost '80s Amerindie classic.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 11:54 (two months ago) Permalink

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