Drive-By Truckers

...insightful, and blistering tale of determination. Naming the influence of the album isn't completely difficult. There's some Drive-By Truckers, a bit of Little Feat, and even some Flying Burrito Brothers, but what's interesting is how...

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...power is drawn at least partly from listeners' inability to understand the logic behind its creation. (Spencer Kornhaber) If Drive-By Truckers were filmmakers instead of a kick-ass rock 'n' roll band, The Dirty South might have been...

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...Philip cites a song by Athens' own Don Chambers that the band will be playing at the Melting Point, and talks about his love for the Drive-By Truckers. Listening to a song Philip wrote for his band, the influence of those artists is easy to...

In this article: Melting point, Athens, Phish, and The Who

Southern-fried alt country sextet trucks on back to the Mountain State on Sunday During the Drive-By Truckers' last appearance in West Virginia -- on "Mountain Stage" last year -- front man Patterson Hood was gravely ill, only able to...

In this article: Charleston and West Virginia

...musical voice. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit play Sunday at The State Room in Salt Lake City. Jason Isbell was formally with the Drive-By Truckers but is now promoting his own solo effort. The 1970s and the genre of Southern Rock tend...

In this article: Jason Isbell, Salt Lake City, Talking Heads, The Band, and Decoration Day

October 22, 2009 from WXPN - Best known as a prominent player in Drive-By Truckers, Patterson Hood has reinvented himself as a solo singer-songwriter. Back in 2001, Drive-By Truckers released a critically acclaimed double-disc set, Southern...

In this article: Southern Rock Opera

...Shoals region of Alabama, Jason Isbell came to prominence as guitarist and contributing songwriter for the popular Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers. Since going solo in 2007, Isbell has released two albums - the latest of which, Jason...

In this article: Jason Isbell, Muscle Shoals, and Alabama

...of previously unreleased tracks, the Drive-By Truckers could have easily satisfied fans by quickly slapping it all on CD, but it turns out the band had a far better idea. Not only has the CD been limited to a dozen songs, but with the help of...

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In March 1999, George Jones slammed his SUV into a bridge abutment, and Drive-By Truckers got a song out of it. Jones wasn't reeling from alcohol, nor was he being chased by an angry ex, nor did any of the hard-living country tropes play...

In this article: Like a Rolling Stone, Jason Isbell, Neil Young, Southern Rock Opera, Uncut magazine, and Southern Man

...and audio quality found on the DVD will come as a revelation for fans who are accustomed to soundboard recordings and raw mixes of the band's live shows. But one also gets the impression that Hood might be choosing his words carefully to...

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