The Kindler, Gentler Drive-By Truckers Thread

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The Truckers announce a new, temporary bassist.

Y'ALL:

We're a couple of weeks away from our spring tour, which this year will be two legs the first taking us to Colorado, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. The second leg, in April, will take us to Alabama, Florida, Virginia, North and South Carolina then (nearly) back home to Georgia. For these shows, we are proud and pleased to announce that we will be joined on bass by old friend and partner in Rock, Matt Patton. Matt is the bass player in The Dexateens, one of our favorite bands. I had the honor of working with him a few years back when I co- produced their Hardwire Healing album. The Teens don't play out nearly enough these days and we are thrilled to have him out with us for a couple of months.

As I've said before, we won't be naming a permanent member anytime too soon. This is an "off" year with limited touring and a lot of other activities on our plate. David Barbe played bass on much of my upcoming solo album, and the plan is still to have him play on our next album, which we are not starting any time soon, so the plan could change before that happens.

At any rate, the last thing we want to do is rush into anything right now, as we've repeatedly said we want some time off and I want to see where that break leads us, musically and otherwise.

At any rate, Matt Patton is a fantastic player and he brings a very cool energy (and tons of fun) to the stage. We look forward to crossing the country with him and based on the practice we had recently, it's going to be a blast. I look forward to seeing many of you there.

Long Live Rock!
Patterson Hood
Drive-By Truckers

PS: Congrats to Cooley on 5/SOLD OUT Solo Shows. The two I caught were incredible and I hope he does more in the not too distant.

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For the first time since she left the Truckers Shonna Tucker talks about her solo career, specifically her appearance this weekend at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, GA as part of a tribute to the release of Cracker's debut album.

Life after Truckers (from Online Athens)

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Shonna Tucker's first public performance since leaving the Drive-By Truckers. This was recorded at the 40 Watt in Athens, GA last night during the final night of a three day celebration of the release of Cracker's debut record. The band, named Eye Candy, includes, in addition to Shonna, John Neff (guitar, sitar, pedal steel), Bo Beddingfield (guitar) and Clay Leverett (drums).

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Matt Patton ready to hit the road with the Drive-By Truckers (Q&A)

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Former Drive-By Trucker Shonna Tucker recorded this cover of a Spooner Oldham song for the Couch By Couchwest site:

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Mike Cooley performing an acoustic set live from Paste magazine

"Ghost To Most"
"Women Without Whiskey"
"Eyes Like Glue"
"Birthday Boy"
"Behind Closed Doors"

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DBTs on a couple STP commercials featuring guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Mike Cooley doing the voiceovers.

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Patterson Hood from a recent taping of Mountain Stage. The entire performance airs this weekend. Check your local listings here.

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DBTs get a shoutout in the new Public Enemy song (check the third verse):

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Nice blog post from 2010 on the connection between Public Enemy and Drive-By Truckers.

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Rolling Stone is streaming a track from the new Patterson Hood solo record, Heat Lightning Rumbles In the Distance, which is due for release on September 11th. You can listen to it here.

By John Lonsdale

Patterson Hood teamed up with friend Kelly Hogan for "Come Back Little Star," the lead single from the Drive-By Truckers frontman's solo album Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance.

"She began the lyrics as a song for our late, dear friend Vic Chesnutt, and I rewrote it with the intention of her recording it for her album," Hood tells Rolling Stone. "She ended up letting me put it on my album and it's a highlight to me."

Hood says he was thrilled to work with Hogan. "I've only done a little bit of co-writing, but I was crazy about our collaboration as I felt it took both of us places we hadn't gone. We recorded this one with Jay [Gonzalez] on grand piano and my dad on bass. [John] Neff's pedal steel does a call-and-response with our strings [Jacob Morris on cello and Scott Danbom on fiddle]. Hogan's gorgeous harmony took it all to the next level. It may be my favorite song I've ever recorded."

Hood is playing solo shows this summer, including dates with the Drive-By Truckers, and he will join Craig Finn and Will Johnson for a European tour in November. Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance hits stores on September 11th.

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This is the press release for Patterson Hood's third solo album, Heat Lightning Rumbles In the Distance, which comes out on September 11th. In light of the release of the new record PattersonHood.com has also been relaunched. I'd post a link to the press release but at present there isn't a direct one.

Patterson Hood
Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance
Release date: 9/11/12 on ATO Records

Back in January 2011, worn out from having spent a year on tour and facing a new album’s release and another year spent mostly on a bus, away from the comforts of home and family, I decided to try to write a book. I had made a couple of stabs in that direction before (as well as a couple of screenplays) but had so far failed to complete one. The thing is, I love to write on the road. I write most every day out there. It’s usually not songs, as completing a song amid all of the noise, distractions and music blasting on the bus is very difficult (I do often start songs there that get finished later) but writing non-musical compositions comes pretty easy for me out here and it sure passes the time. Beside, I had an idea for a story I wanted to write and it started coming very easily. By our third month on the road I already had a pretty firm outline of what I wanted and several chapters that I felt really good about.

I was calling my book “Slam Dancing in the Pews”, named after a cassette that Virgil Kane had recorded in 1992 when Cooley and I were playing shows under that name after the break up of Adam’s House Cat. The book was basically half-assed fictionalization of that very turbulent period of my life. I was 27, my band broke up, I got divorced and left my hometown to live in Memphis. My car got stolen, our band’s truck got stripped and I fell in love. I fell out with my family (who I was very, very close to) and had my heart broken. I seriously pondered killing myself several times but instead wrote literally over 500 songs in a three-year period. A time when I reinvented myself artistically and experienced a sort of rebirth that led to a lot of the things I have done in the last two decades.

My book would sort of tell that story, but interspersed with lyrics from that period of my life, as well as new song lyrics either set in that time or from the point of view of various characters from the book. The structure would be chapter / song / chapter / song and so on. If the book was coming fast, the songs were coming even easier. Then the booked stopped coming. Someday I may want to tell that story, but timing is everything and this just isn’t the time for it.

The songs, however continued to pour out, taking a few left turns and then morphing into its own thing. Most of this album comes from that short period of time between February and June of 2011. The songs begin in the period that the book was set in, but don’t end there, as they really just were the impetus for writing about the life I am living now and contrasting it with the troubled times of two decades ago.

I called it Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance and decided that spring to record it as a solo album. I could clearly hear in my head exactly how I wanted every song to sound and made a list of who I wanted to play on each one. It is in some ways the most personal album I’ve ever made. There has always been a lot of me in all of the albums we’ve done, but usually semi-disguised as character sketches and stories, but the first person narrative in this one is pretty firmly rooted in autobiography, albeit in two dramatically differing time periods.

A Festival of Teeth – The making of Heat Lightning:

I have GarageBand on my computer so I decided to record a rough sketch of the album in my office, off from our kitchen at our house. The new songs nearly sequenced themselves into a near narrative and I started passing out my GarageBand demos to various friends and relations and received near unanimous positive feedback from it.

David Hood is a session bass player who played on tons of those great Muscle Shoals soul classics back in the day. He played bass on The Staple Singers’ classic “I’ll Take You There” as well as hits by Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Bobby Womack, Bob Seger, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson and Etta James. He is also my Dad and he came over to record with me last fall and absolutely outdid himself. His playing on the title cut is just stunning and we had an amazing time working together.

David Barbe, who has partnered with me on almost everything I’ve done for about a decade now, co- produced and played bass on the rest of the album.

Kelly Hogan has long been one of my favorite people and I knew I wanted her to sing on my album. She has just recently recorded an album of her own and she and I had attempted to co-write a song for it. She sent me a set of lyrics to an unfinished song she was working on about our friend Vic Chesnutt. I loved her lyrics and set about re-writing it and turning it into a song called “Come Back Little Star” which I then sent back to her to complete, but alas she didn’t get it finished in time to make her album and upon deciding to do my album, asked her if I could finish it for my album and she agreed. She came down to Georgia and sang on it and on “After The Damage” which I also wrote with her voice in mind. Upon singing her takes she could see through the glass into the control room what she described as “A Festival of Teeth.”

As always, Brad Morgan played drums and just keeps getting better and better all of the time. As a lot of the songs were piano based (and since I’m just not a very good piano player) I was fortunate to have Jay Gonzalez playing Andy Baker’s grand piano (on indefinite loan to Chase Park Transduction) as well as Wurlitzer, accordion and Mellotron. John Neff came by to play some spot-on pedal steel and we even got Cooley in to play banjo on a couple of tracks.

My love for the Denton, Texas band Centro-matic is well known and once again I was fortunate to have Will Johnson and Scott Danbom in for a few days each to play with me. Will came in October, played some guitar and did some stunning singing. Scott came by in August and played upright piano on “Leaving Time”, then came back in early December and played the fiddle. I had always heard cello on some of these songs and for the first time got to play with Jacob Morris (Madeline, Moths and Old Smokey).

In the end, I think we made the most intimate and personal record of my career and I’m extremely proud of how it all turned out. I have put together a really good band, The Downtown Rumblers, to go out tour behind it and I’m really looking forward to taking this show on the road.

Patterson Hood

(Back lounge, Philly and I-85S November 19-20, 2011 and Ann’s Kitchen in Baltimore, Baltimore MD. June 18, 2012)

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Easy Riders
The Drive-By Truckers Slow Down (For Now)
The local rockers return to the stage with a two-night stand at the Georgia Theatre


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I have nothing to say about the band but ...

My email was hacked over the weekend. Between Sunday and yesterday I got almost 200 new messages from people either subscribing to or unsubscribing from DBT News.

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I have nothing to say about the band but ...

My email was hacked over the weekend. Between Sunday and yesterday I got almost 200 new messages from people either subscribing to or unsubscribing from DBT News.

That actually wasn't a hacking. Here's the explanation from Jenn Bryant, that runs their website:

Hey guys! Here's the dealio:
Our server was recently purchased by a large corporation and they altered several things.
One of the things they altered was taking a long-dead email list and making it a F*CKING DISCUSSION LIST.
Nobody knew this until one person subscribed, then everyone on our list got the email.
The more people responded, the more emails people got.
All of this happened while I was asleep.

This morning I just went in and deleted the whole list.
Please let me know if you get more emails, so I can go choke the living sh*t out of someone for starting my Sunday off so wonderfully.
Sorry folks!
-Jenn

I understand some of the responses were pretty comical but I didn't really take the time to read any of them. One person apparently threatened to "alert the authorities" if the emails didn't stop. I just deleted all of them en masse.

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Drive By Truckers, tonight 3-5-13 at The Haw River Ballroom

Tiki Torches, will you be there?

http://www.hawriverballroom.com/event/2 ... saxapahaw/

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Drive By Truckers, tonight 3-5-13 at The Haw River Ballroom

Tiki Torches, will you be there?

http://www.hawriverballroom.com/event/2 ... saxapahaw/

Yes, I will. Been looking forward to seeing 'em there since my first trip out there in 2011 to see Megafaun. Haw River Ballroom was meant for the Truckers. Looking forward to seeing the Whigs as well.

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Drive By Truckers, tonight 3-5-13 at The Haw River Ballroom

Tiki Torches, will you be there?

http://www.hawriverballroom.com/event/2 ... saxapahaw/

Yes, I will. Been looking forward to seeing 'em there since my first trip out there in 2011 to see Megafaun. Haw River Ballroom was meant for the Truckers. Looking forward to seeing the Whigs as well.

Cool, I'll be there. My first DBT show.

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Drive By Truckers, tonight 3-5-13 at The Haw River Ballroom

Tiki Torches, will you be there?

http://www.hawriverballroom.com/event/2 ... saxapahaw/

Yes, I will. Been looking forward to seeing 'em there since my first trip out there in 2011 to see Megafaun. Haw River Ballroom was meant for the Truckers. Looking forward to seeing the Whigs as well.

Cool, I'll be there. My first DBT show.

You're in for a real treat. This is a slightly different line up (John Neff, who played pedal steel and guitar left the band back in January) but keyboardist Jay Gonzalez has stepped up to fill in the guitar slot. He still plays keys as well, sometimes at the same time as the guitar. I saw him and the EZB (aka Brad Morgan) with Patterson a few weeks ago at the Artscenter in Carrboro and they were on it. I hear the current shows are a lot more lean and rockin'. I loved Neff's pedal steel work but change seems to be a constant thing with the Truckers. I'm also not at all opposed to the rock.

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Last night's show is now online at Archive.org:

Drive-By Truckers
Live at the Haw River Ballroom
Saxapahaw, NC
March 5, 2013

Source: Milab V44 Link Cardioid NOS FOB Right of center>Grace V2>Tascam DR-680
Lineage: SD>Audacity (Normalize-Nashville Compression)>CDWave>TLH

Thank You Scott Hinds for the Setlist!

01. The Living Bubba
02. Gravity's Gone
03. I Do Believe
04. Highway 72 (This Highway's Mean)
05. Ronnie & Neil
06. Birthday Boy
07. Girls Who Smoke
08. Where the Devil Don't Stay
09. Patterson speaks to audience
10. Used to be a Cop
11. Self Destructive Zones
12. Buttholeville>State Trooper
13. Marry Me
14. Sinkhole
15. Three Dimes Down
16. Hell No I Ain't Happy
17. Crowd-Encore:
18. Zip City
19. Let There Be Rock
20. Shut Up and Get On the Plane
21. Angels & The Fuselage

Total Time 122:15:19

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