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The Drive-By Truckers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Drive-By Truckers are a rock/ Alt-country band from Florence, Alabama. Together with a revolving group of musicians, the Drive-By Truckers put out their first two albums, Gangstabilly (1998) and Pizza Deliverance (1999). The DBTs then hit the road on a nationwide tour, resulting in a live album, Alabama Ass-Whuppin (released in 2000 by Second Heaven Records, re-released in 2002 by Terminus Records). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drive-By_Truckers   (452 words)

Drive By Truckers For Alabama’s Drive By Truckers, that cycle of story telling has been at the root of the band’s last three albums, and with the release of The Dirty South last month the Truckers have added yet another layer to their musical history of life in the South and the people who live it. Part of Drive By Truckers appeal, which has garnered the band more than a little critical acceptance and praise, is their ability to tell “the other side of a story,” and The Dirty South is no different in that regard. Drive By Truckers finally got that chance, with The Dirty South, laying down their tracks in the same studio that gave birth to Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman,” Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally” and Aretha Franklin's “Do Right Woman,” among others. www.marqueemag.com /10_04/DBT.html   (902 words)

Drive-By Truckers on New West Records and the Truckers are on most of them, so we made this Ecard to celebrate the year. Everything on this album is a notch sharper, a logical progression from 2004’s neutron bomb of a record The Dirty South, pushing beyond singing about the South to universal themes of love and pain and determination with more drive and more passion than they have ever displayed before. Preview the DVD of the Truckers playing live at the 40 Watt. www.newwestrecords.com /drivebytruckers.php   (762 words)

Country Standard Time: Drive-By Truckers, September 2003 Drive-By Truckers is sometimes called a Southern rock revival band these days and lumped in with acts such as Kings Of Leon. Drive-By Truckers make music that is too rock for country, yet probably a little too country for straight-ahead rock fans. The members of Drive-By Truckers are not comfortable with being labeled a country band, since the music they make is so wide-ranging, multifaceted and just plain rocking at times. www.countrystandardtime.com /drivebytruckersFEATURE.html   (1926 words)

Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South - PopMatters Music Review Patterson Hood remains the heart and soul of the Drive-By Truckers, and his compositions continue to cement his status as a rock 'n' roll storyteller of the highest order, rivaling Steve Earle. Following in the footsteps of The Band, the Drive-By Truckers are today's version of rock 'n' roll journeymen, touring with a relentlessness that few independent bands can match, playing marathon shows night after night. Death and misery abounded, as listeners were hit by songs about murder, incest, suicide, divorce, the band channeling the rich past of American folk music, the songs paralleling the great murder ballads of the turn of the 20th century. www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/d/drivebytruckers-dirtysouth.shtml   (1045 words)

Songoose.com - Drive-By Truckers, Decoration Day Decoration Day from the Drive-By Truckers is a welcome breath of fresh air in a musical world that seems to be getting more and more polished by the minute. I was pondering this very thought the other day -- the fact that I haven't heard a good rock song in a really long time -- when a beautiful thing arrived in my mailbox: The Drive-By Truckers new release, Decoration Day. The Truckers proudly wear their hearts on their ragged, ripped sleeves, and I for one am along for the ride. www.songoose.com /cd/dbt_decoration.html   (602 words)

Drive-By Truckers [RockAthens.com] Early Drive-By Truckers albums reflect a genuine country-fried sound rich with pedal steel guitar and tongue-in-cheek tales of white trash culture. Celebrated for their high-energy live shows, the Truckers have evolved into a full-on, hearty guitar rock band and spend much of their time and energy on the road. The Truckers were hearty favorites in Atlanta's thriving Redneck Underground scene of the mid '90s but didn't gain full appreciation on the Athens scene until the much-hyped 2001 self-release of their opus "Southern Rock Opera." www.onlineathens.com /rockathens/bands/drivebytruckers.shtml   (406 words)

Movies on NRO Weekend Drive-by Truckers — their name conjures up a collision of Wu-Tang Clan and Red Sovine — almost single-handedly keep the flame alive for the three-guitar attack pioneered by that old giant killer, Lynyrd Skynyrd. With "Southern Rock Opera," Drive-by Truckers move to the front ranks of the alternate-country movement. The Truckers are the first band to sound much like Skynyrd since Skynyrd. www.nationalreview.com /weekend/music/music-longprint110301.html   (565 words)

Tucson Weekly: Southern Men (January 24 - January 30, 2002) Drive-By Truckers are (l-r) Brad Morgan, Earl Hicks, Patterson Hood, and Mike Cooley. The Truckers have a great momentum going, and it is heart-warming to know that they have done it all without the backing of a label. Fortunately for music fans, the Truckers realized they neither had the means nor the knowledge to make a movie and the project shifted to a musical one. www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-01-24/mus.html   (1044 words)

CMT.com : Drive By Truckers Drive By Truckers, Charlie Daniels, Hank Williams Jr. www.cmt.com /artists/az/drive_by_truckers/oncmt.jhtml   (149 words)

Drive-By Truckers - Entertainment To the Drive-By Truckers, however, these types of figures are exactly what the "Dirty" South, a region thick with legend and bigger than life heroes, is all about. While bands such as My Morning Jacket have been able to avoid this routine by incorporating inventive melodies and soaring crescendos, the Drive-By Truckers are able to get by on the strength of their lyrics, which draw attention away from the inevitable solos of the band's three guitar attack. The only downside to Dirty South is much of the guitar work, which is predictably rote and gives the impression that southern rock hasn't changed a bit in the past thirty years. media.www.hofstrachronicle.com /media/storage/paper222/news/2004/10/06/Entertainment/DriveBy.Truckers-746893.shtml?sourcedomain=www.hofstrachronicle.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com   (443 words)

Drive-By Truckers Drive-By Truckers' long, loud show was a monster. No, Drive-By Truckers ain't your typical band, and this was no typical night out. After relating his tale of broken government promises and immeasurable hardship, the band swung into a huge endgame jam that gave the impression that he was simply blowing up. www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000875490   (395 words)

Drive-By Truckers: Drive They Said The foremost thing you need to know about the Drive-By Truckers’ decade-long career arc and how their new album, A Blessing and a Curse, fits snugly at its apex is this: After years spent debunking Southern stereotypes, the Drive-By Truckers reached a critical decision to not become one. The Truckers may have new sonic influences, but the stories of people’s lives are still a prime component of their songs. Whereas for previous records the Truckers had entered the studio with a backlog of songs to record, for Blessing the band came in straight from the road with a comparatively clean slate. harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=4149   (3292 words)

JamBase DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS :: THE DIRTY SOUTH The Drive-By Truckers are as fierce, nasty, un-relenting, loud, and awesome as any rock band to hit the stage in years, and that's just their live show. The fine people at New West Records have released The Dirty South, which very well may be the Drive-By Truckers strongest to date. In the studio the Truckers have proved to be every bit as ingenious, but in a slightly different way. www.jambase.com /headsup.asp?storyID=5541   (602 words)

Metro Pulse/Music/Drive-By Truckers As successful as Southern Rock Opera was, the Drive-By Truckers have greater hopes for their follow-up, the as-yet unreleased Decoration Day. Athens, Georgia's Drive-By Truckers may have created just such a masterpiece with their last release, Southern Rock Opera (Lost Highway Records). Drive-By Truckers bring their operatic tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd to Knoxville www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2002/1234/t_music.html   (787 words)

Drive by Truckers  Main Based in Athens, GA, Drive-By Truckers consists of Mike Cooley on guitar and vocals, Earl Hicks on bass, Patterson Hood on guitar and vocals, Jason Isbell on guitar and vocals and Brad Morgan on drums. NEW WEST RECORDS SIGNS DRIVE-BY ANGELES, CA – Cameron Strang, president of New West Records, has announced the signing of Drive-By Truckers and a June 17 release date for the band’s label debut, Decoration Day. Since forming in 1998, Drive-By Truckers has become one of the most talked about bands in www.markpuccimedia.com /dbtmain.htm   (367 words)

The Drive-By Truckers, Bowery Ballroom, Halloween 2003 The Drive By Truckers are a Southern rock band pure and simple, and they know that heart of darkness because they drank it in with their mothers' milk. The Truckers are best first encountered live, which isn't to say anything bad about their CD, but simply to point out the energy they bring to each and every song can't be captured and replicated by digital equipment, no matter what They got what they paid for: The Truckers played for hours, and then came back for a two-hour encore, as if playing on stage in front of a bunch of screaming, drunk maniacs was what they'd been born to do. www.corporatemofo.com /stories/031102DBT.htm   (307 words)

NashvilleRage.com: Drive-By Truckers- 02.21.02 Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera hits the road The source of Hood's humor-laced trepidation is the Truckers' latest album, a two-disc Southern rock opera titled, fittingly, Southern Rock Opera, an epic piece that chronicles growing up in the late '70s in northern Alabama, a place where George Wallace, Bear Bryant and Skynyrd reigned supreme. Hood says Southern Rock Opera was a record more than six years in the making, predating the existence of this incarnation of the Truckers, which includes Mike Cooley, Earl Hicks, Rob Malone and Brad Morgan. www.nashvillerage.com /music/features/022102-drivebytruckers   (414 words)

Amazon.com: Southern Rock Opera: Music: The Drive-By Truckers Drive By Truckers' "Southern Rock Opera" is the best American rock album of 2001, and also the best Southern Rock album since Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors" way back in 1977. Drive By Truckers - Dirty South - Live at the 40 Watt DVD ~ Eleanor (II) A Blessing And A Curse ~ Drive-by Truckers www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068FUS?v=glance   (1817 words)

Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South: Pitchfork Review For the Drive-By Truckers, black-and-white aggrandizement is much less interesting than gray-area truths, and in a sense, The Dirty South rescues the flawed man from the ideal perpetrated by the movies. Rummaging through the iconography of the South, the Drive-By Truckers distill Southern Rock Opera's myth-breaking and combine it with Decoration Day's family photo album, and the result is a uniquely regional morality. As on previous albums, the Drive-By Truckers back their ambitious, word-dense songs with down-and-dirty Southern rock that's direct and bare-boned, yet often explosive. www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/d/drive-by-truckers/dirty-south.shtml   (753 words)

TrouserPress.com :: Drive-By Truckers Drive-By Truckers are new, and they are ferocious. The two-disc Southern Rock Opera solidified the Truckers' position, turning what was previously hinted at (or whined about) into grist for a sustained lyrical and musical narrative of a North Alabama boy wandering a musical map of loves and hates. In an "opera" that is part nostalgia and part speculative utopia, the slower songs are tender, angsty: if you drink and drive, if you worship heros, if you play with guns, if you live in a place the media have forgotten, you take your chances. www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=drive-by_truckers   (1030 words)

Music Drive-By Truckers Spread between Athens, Georgia, and Birmingham and Center Star, Alabama, Drive-By Truckers — Patterson Hood (vocals, guitar), Mike Cooley (vocals, guitar), Jason Isbell (guitar, vocals), Earl "Bird Dog" Hicks (bass), and Brad Morgan (drums) — have all the makings of an alt-country outfit. Whether bucking like Neil Young’s Crazy Horse or plaintively picking out a pedal-steel riff, the Truckers cast a literate eye on the universal issues of living, dying, and, most of all, trying. Most touching, however, is Jason Isbell’s "Outfit," a tale of a father handing a life of learning down to his son. www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02954294.htm   (244 words)

Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South (2004): Reviews The Drive-By Truckers are the best, smartest, and most soulful hard rock band to emerge in a very long time. No, the Drive-By Truckers haven't gone all gangsta rap on us; the title is just one example of the southern rockers' playful side. Although this could get tired eventually, the Truckers haven't run out of stories yet, and their acute awareness of themselves and their forebears suggests they'll know when to say when. www.metacritic.com /music/artists/drivebytruckers/dirtysouth   (572 words)

Winds of Change.NET: Kerry on Energy: Truly, Deeply, Stupid If your driving is all electric until you go beyond battery-only range and have to start an engine, you can cut fuel consumption by 57% for a 20-mile electric range and more than 90% for a 60-mile electric range. Yup those poor, hardworking realtors, forced to drive Escalades as opposed to sedans; the nail salon owner who needs a Yukon XL to haul the box of supplies she needs once a month. If you get into the habit of consolidating trips, dropping the habit of driving kids to their entire social life and a few other things, you might be able to do a lot more. www.windsofchange.net /archives/004783.php   (6680 words)

Ink 19 :: Drive By Truckers The Drive By Truckers know the loss we suffered then -- and how it still, 24 years later, causes grown men to wipe their eyes when the symbolic bandana is placed over an empty microphone and "Free Bird" plays. Patterson Hood and the Drive By Truckers seemingly struggled with the same issues, caught between boogie and blitzkrieg -- but probably not as much as I. Hood's father is David Hood, a noted Muscle Shoals bassist, so perhaps Patterson grew up with a fuller appreciation of the southern sound. The Drive By Truckers examine the moments of our history and perform a grand and fair accounting of what went on. www.ink19.com /issues/december2001/musicReviews/musicD/driveByTruckers.html   (910 words)

Live Review: Bjorn Berge / Drive-by Truckers But don't fuck with us or we'll cut off your head and throw your body over a spillway at the Wilson Dam." This fragment from the liner notes of their stellar 2004 album The Dirty South already gives away a lot about the attitude and themes that pop up in the Drive-by Truckers' songs. It's a cocktail that few bands manage to pull off (no matter how good they are, the Kings of Leon are the "boys" compared to the "men" of the Truckers) and when you scam the album reviews on their website, you'd think they're the most acclaimed band of the past few years. The approach used is endlessly fascinating, as their interweave autobiographical stories with myths, historical figures (legendary enforcer Sheriff Buford Pusser is one), events ("Ronnie and Neil" also touches upon the racist bombing in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four children) and fictitious tales about the workingman's ups and downs. www.guypetersreviews.com /livedbt.php   (1018 words)

Drive-By Truckers - Official Store: Records On CD Department The Drive-By Truckers are purveyors of a new kind of southern rock storytelling - dense, dark, majestic and intelligent. Re-issue of the long out of print CD by the Drive-By Truckers. The result is very thought out and deliberate with a decided air of sophistication (Truckers style!). stores.musictoday.com /store/dept.asp?band_id=474&dept_id=1263&sfid=2   (246 words)

DRIVE BY TRUCKERS Drive by Truckers literate, evocative lyrics are, on the other hand, deeply steeped in Southern culture. While a great deal of the motivation for the present incarnation of Lynyrd Skynyrd might be perceived as coming from the mighty dollar, Drive by Truckers seem to be truly inspired and impassioned by their Southern roots and have received standing ovations while opening for the present day Skynyrd. Skynyrd was a great concert band and played with a lot of energy and passion, but it seemed that Ronnie Van Zant had every note planned out beforehand, which didn't leave a lot of room for improvisation. www.buzzmix.com /DriveByTruckersSchubas.htm   (1762 words)

Drive-By Truckers: Decoration Day - PopMatters Music Review As the album closes with the alarming poignancy of "Loaded Gun in the Closet", it drives home the fact that the Drive-By Truckers are easily one of the best independent rock bands in America today. Few bands today are as good at telling a simple, straightforward, from-the-gut story like the Drive-By Truckers are. Nobody writes and plays such honest, thoughtful, loud rock 'n' roll as these guys do, and with this, their fifth album, you get the feeling that they've only just gotten started. www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/d/drivebyturckers-decoration.shtml   (702 words)

Drive-By Truckers Truckers drive by Columbia to prove Southern rock not a dying breed Drive By Truckers - 3/26/05 South Gate House Newport, Ky. The Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood Sings His Songs www.drivebytruckers.com /reviews.html   (872 words)

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