And we’re back with a check in with songwriter, bandleader, and longtime Aquarium Drunkard supporter Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers. Earlier this year, the Truckers released their 12th lp, The Unraveling, a righteously pissed off record about gun violence, white supremacy, and the possibility of reincarnation. We rang up Hood to talk about quarantining in Portland, Oregon, the ins and outs of modern America, the new Bob Dylan song, and his early, formative experience seeing the great John Martyn.
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Drive-By Truckers :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
This Friday, September 30th will see the release of the eleventh studio album by the Drive-by Truckers. American Band is a tight, dark album comprised of the type of songwriting that Patterson […]
Catching Up With Drive-By Truckers :: The AD Interview (Hood/Cooley)
There are certain musical landmarks often brought up in conjunction with Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, R.E.M. But on […]
Drive-By Truckers :: Alabama Ass Whuppin’ (Reissued)
Back in print, courtesy of ATO Records: Alabama Ass Whuppin’ – Drive-By Truckers third LP, a live album recorded between March 1999 through August of 2000. This is the sound of DBT as […]
Patterson Hood :: Eddie Hinton’s Mighty Field of Vision
( Diversions , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) One cannot overstate the power of […]
Drive-By Truckers :: Go-Go Boots
Nine studio albums and a decade and a half into their career, the Drive-By Truckers have created their own mythology; a mythology that is at once self-contained yet continually feeding off the […]
Drive-By Truckers :: The Big To-Do
As the Drive-By Truckers release their eighth album, it’s interesting to see them, lyrically and somewhat musically, creating an album that echoes their earliest records. The Big To-Do is the most distinctly southern album they’ve […]
Decade :: Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South (2004)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Under The Covers :: People Who Died
Context is everything. And sometimes it’s the mere shift of geography, the slighter or greater roar of the narrator that can make the biggest difference in a song. Jim Carroll’s “People Who […]
AD Presents :: The Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers
Welcome to the pre-Thanksgiving rock show. Next Tuesday, November 25th, Aquarium Drunkard presents a double bill a the Wiltern with The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers . We have three pairs of tickets for AD readers. […]
AD Presents :: Drive-By Truckers, West Coast Dates
Drive-By Truckers are heading back to California for two upcoming dates with Dead Confederate . Aquarium Drunkard is presenting both Solana Beach, CA (Belly Up Tavern) and Sacramento, CA (Empire Room). We have ten pairs of […]
AD Presents :: Drive-By Truckers, February 11/12
The Drive-By Truckers are getting ready to embark on their Home Front World Tour, in support of the new LP Brighter Than Creation’s Dark . Aquarium Drunkard is presenting the 1st two dates in Anaheim ( House of Blues […]
Drive-By Truckers :: Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
Drugs, desperation, suicide, Alabama-born bed-time stories, and quirky southern character studies — a little bit country and a whole lot of rock ‘n roll. In other words, a Drive-By Truckers album. Tomorrow, […]
Drive-By Truckers Talk Two New Albums…
Never one to shy away from Drive-By Truckers related news, here is a heads up for all you DBT fans that have yet to check out this new PASTE magazine feature published online […]