Tag: Drive-By Truckers

Album | Drive-By Truckers – The New OK

When the Drive-By Truckers kept us waiting three years for January’s The Unraveling, it was the longest gap yet between albums in their 20-plus year career. Now, just nine months later, they’re back with The New OK. This surprise new…

Album | Drive-by Truckers – The Unraveling

“This madness has to stop.” Those words by Patterson Hood are at the emotional core of the Drive-by Truckers new record, The Unraveling. Coming almost four years after American Band, this is a record that nobody really wanted to make. “They’re…

Album | Adam’s House Cat – Town Burned Down

It seems like most things the Drive-By Truckers do have a story, and usually a damn good one. Town Burned Down, the only album recorded by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley’s pre-DBT band Adam’s House Cat, is no exception. Originally…

Live | Drive-By Truckers @ O2 Ritz, Manchester

The ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag so often draped over an amplifier is missing. ‘What It Means’, Patterson Hood’s song about the violence directed at African Americans of late, may have been a setlist mainstay during the North American leg of…

#639 Drive-By Truckers – Surrender Under Protest

These are strange times indeed, and that means the Drive-By Truckers have something to say about them. The band have today announced a new album, American Band, and revealed this first cut – highlighting the clear political bent to the…

Album | Jason Isbell – Something More Than Free

I’ll admit, I was late to the party with Jason Isbell. Since he departed the Drive-By Truckers in 2006, and went sober 7 years after, he’s led a widely successful solo career, but I didn’t come across him until his…

Pictures | Drive-By Truckers @ Manchester Ritz

The Drive-By Truckers don’t play too many shows in the UK, so when they do it’s a real treat. And they’ve been over this week to celebrate the release of their new record English Oceans, for which you can read…

Album | Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans

The Drive-By Truckers’ 10th studio album captures the sound of a group rediscovering the fun in making music. Because the three years since the release of Go-Go Boots have largely been anything but for Patterson Hood and his once merry…