DRIVE BY TRUCKERS fans, UNITE!!!

I know I've read the name origin name a million times but I still always assumed a "drive-by trucker" was sort of a part-timer. Like, nota poseur or not the real deal.

Woowww... privileged much?? /s

try-hard is preferable to do-nothing

normally I agree with this sentiment but this one is pretty ridiculous. I guess it must be nice to be able to call up NPR and publish the fart of your choice

I definitely assumed it was about drive-by shootings by truckers - a juxtaposition reinforced by debut album Gangstabilly.

^^ same, peace.

What we should definitely be doing is shaming people for trying, even if it comes off a little misguided. Absolutely, that's the best course of action.

He'll be fine.

I never thought of a different connotation for drive-by... but I also just thought it was a nonsense combo of words because '90s band name

Barenaked Truckers.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WIPXrqcML._SY445_.jpg

I don't know Jerry Joseph, but apparently the band backed him up on his new album? And Isbell adds slide to a track?

Jerry Joseph is ... like, look up 'earnest grizzled veteran journeyman bar-rocker dude' in the dictionary and there'll be a picture of Jerry.

i think he's an OK songwriter who occasionally cranks out a pretty great song, but he has been such a sort of regional lifer in Portland for so long, i always dismissed him. that said, he is well-connected *and* he has been grinding it out long enough that i think i have no choice to come around to respecting him.

nice enough guy, though. takes his art real serious like. And I think he kicked a serious addiction somewhere along the way, too.

(short version: it's a coup for him to have DBTs and especially Isbell on his record)

New album (already) out in December, called "The New OK." Curious, because of course that will be post-election, which could provide two very different contexts to the songs. Maybe they will be more thematically general this time?

There's a short piece on them on Rolling Stone. Apparently most of the songs were leftover from the last sessions, though some of the leftovers from the last sessions are being saved for their *next* album already. This one apparently has a Ramones cover, which I presume to be "The KKK Took My Baby Away," and a Cooley song about how Sarah Palin essentially did Trump before Trump. He jokes in the piece that the GOP can't even give a woman credit for *that.*

Wait, the new album is out Friday!?

Yeah, out digitally this Friday and physically in mid-December.

Weird, listened to the title track just now and towards the end I picked up that it's built from the DNA of Soul Asylum's "Cartoon," which could be a coincidence, but I can almost certainly guarantee those dudes are familiar with that song.

I was underwhelmed by the album from earlier this year.

a Cooley song about how Sarah Palin essentially did Trump before Trump

man these guys have fallen very far indeed

Nah they're still good, it's everything else that's fallen.

I liked The Unraveling, heard the highly-acclaimed American Band as clumsy with the political comments---trouble getting to fresh expression, esp in songshapes that lure---go back to Woody G, DBT: he always found a good tune somewhere, still got that P Domain for public discourse---anybody listened to all/any of these live sets? They've been pretty good live in my experience, even w material I didn't care for as studio tracks, but where should I start w all this?
https://drivebytruckers.bandcamp.com/music

Alabama Ass Whuppin' is a real good sweatbox set of prime early material, from when they still had a sense of humor.
This the official reissue of the bands long 'out of print' live album from 2000, ALABAMA ASS WHUPPIN'. Recorded in various Georgia clubs during the Pizza Deliverance Tour of 1999, it is probably the most punk rock thing they have ever done. ATO Records & Drive-By Truckers have restored the original 1/2' analogue mixes of the album which have been re-mastered with some beautiful new art work

I do agree that The Unraveling did a better job of being topical and political than the overt American Band did. That said, I don't think the band has lost their sense of humor so much as not having a whole lot to be happy about at the moment.

xp that was a fun time to be in athens. their shows felt like big parties with patterson hood hosting and making sure you had a good time and got shitfaced. elephant six had such a different thing going on but it all lingered together so well

That's what came across on the album! And their humor didn't depend on happy stuff: This food tastes the way Ah feel...She's the best-dressed gurl in Butt-holevilllle. Ditto on Southern Rock Opera and Pizza Deliverance (still need to check Gangstabilly. "Go-Go Boots" is a good later example, with that creepy Sardonicus groove.

Based on a true/testified to story, let the record show.

Okay, three songs in and this is the most I've liked one of their records since Brighter than Creations Dark, so I'm hopeful.

Still good! Strong melodies, great (and successful!) use of southern soul tropes.

Ramones cover is just eh, haven’t listened to rest yet

"The New OK" has bee DBT's modus operandi since 2010.

it's better than ok.

""The KKK Took My Baby" away is good jolty closer, turning up the volume after sleepless swirl of "Watching The Orange Clouds," and I like the processing of Cooley's voice here and elsewhere, although his trademark corrugating crooning fills in pretty well for Shonna Tucker's touching tones, which I immediately started jonesing when the Spoonereque piano intro of "Sarah's Flame" commenced. Also like the way all his words roll with the keys, and baritone voice that occasionally shows up after he mentions "Barry's baritone."

That one a and the near beach music of "Sea Island Lonely," with soul horns grooving by sometimes, and "The Distance"---tracks 5., 6., 7.---will or would def. make it to my personal mixtape of DBT through the years. Also liking several more, although the big shoe stomp can still plod at times (drummer's doing what they want, or he'd probably be gone, like several longtime companions over the years).
https://drivebytruckers.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-ok

Also "Tough To Let Go" : "Know that the weight of your expectations won't fit in the door."

There are a couple clear REM inspired moments (specifically nods to Automatic for the People), too.

Good interview w Hood, posted Oct. 23:
https://www.al.com/life/2020/10/patterson-hood-talks-new-drive-by-truckers-album-eddie-van-halen-jason-isbell.html Also: writing projects to keep from going crayzee, Petty as punk etc.

@ShonnaTucker
Shout out to the elderly lady up the road today wearin
a sleeveless pearl snap collared shirt workin a leaf blower
with one hand and a Coors light in the other. I 100% get it.

<3

P. Hood, "I Know A Place---Growing Up Muscle Shoals":
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1987-i-know-a-place

And his accompanying playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5AzVQ0Be9NoAaM3xXPQF9O?si=CBstknviRDaelqqKclAJkg

I thought this was fun:

https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/drive-by-truckers-patterson-hood-nine-favourite-songs

Yeah. Good check-in w Cooley too:
His relationship advice involves Foghat.
And his wit’s dry enough you can’t always exactly tell if he’s messing with you or not.
He's doing a few more acoustic solo shows---says full-band shows could get out of hand these days, re social distancing etc.---before the venues he's playing shut down again (as the owners have told him) ,'til the vaccine gets around (a very slooow process in Alabama), and conditions improve----anyway! https://www.al.com/life/2021/01/mike-cooley-talks-drive-by-truckers-tour-riders-sarah-palin-pandemic-shows.html
Oh yeah, and he mentions this benefit acoustic show w Isbell, now posted on Truckers' bandcamp:
https://www.al.com/life/2020/11/jason-isbell-2-drive-by-truckers-reunite-for-live-lp.html

This is actually kinda cool:

DBT Lyrics Raffle
Drive-By Truckers founders, Patterson Hood & Mike Cooley, have generously agreed to offer handwritten lyrics to one of each of their songs in their continuing support of Nuci's Space!

There will be 2 winning numbers drawn for the raffle.

The raffle winners will choose 1 song from the artists songwriting catalog.

The first winning entry will win handwritten lyrics for any Patterson Hood song from his catalog.

The second winning entry will win handwritten lyrics for any Mike Cooley song from his catalog.

$5 = 1 entry for the raffle

Any amount above $50 doubles your entries!

For example: $50 = 20 entries $100 = 40 entries, etc.

https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/reUk0HSRN78oBdgmaaBpSg

they're supporting a good cause: https://www.nuci.org/

Mountain Stage recently re-broadcasted 2012 set of Patterson Hood & Friends (incl. Mike Mills)--podcast here, thugh you'll have to scroll down a little ways (has a bit more music than time edit of broadcast)
https://mountainstage.org/podcasts/ Others in this show: Van Dyke Parks, Randall Bramblett (really good singer/ongwriter/multi-instrumentalist, was in best line-up of Cowboy etc.), Teitur, Caroline Aiken
Hood Set list: Pride of the Yankees
Leaving Time
Disappear
Pollyanna
After It’s Gone

Nice reminiscence here:

https://www.drivebytruckers.com/sro-anniversary

I was at the Hideout show Hood calls a turning point. I had actually taken my sister in law to see Bob Dylan at the United Center, and she was a little perplexed why I wanted to leave early to see this *other* show, but I'll never forget it and that lineup, even though as Hood emphasizes (and he's right) both the band and the music got better.

I saw a tweet (in response to Isbell's celebration of SRO I think) about someone seeing DBT open for Slobberbone after the album came out. I saw Slobberbone a lot in that era (and they were good!) but with the institution that DBT has become it's weird to think about them as the opener.

It makes me really happy to see Isbell and the Truckers guys getting on well and still supporting each other.

You're reminding me---this is him, not them, but since it's for charity, I'll bend the thread police rule (and I'm sure DBT approve): https://pitchfork.com/news/jason-isbell-and-the-400-unit-detail-new-covers-album-for-charity/ He vowed he'd do it if Georgia went blue in '20, and so he has, by cracky.

07 Sometimes Salvation [ft. Steve Gorman]

lmao that's a solid troll

Slobberbone runs circles around the DBTs

xp - that is a killer troll, A++++++

Would love to see the Robinson brothers reaction.

Slobberbone runs circles around the DBTs

Cool, take it to the Slobberbone thread. Oh wait...there isn't one.