The 2021 Newport Folk Festival (technically titled “Folk On”) is, for obvious reasons, much different than past installments: Coming off a year of mass tragedy and societal reckoning, this year’s event, ongoing through July 28th, features double the amount of days — six instead of three — reduced capacity, and fewer stages. The first three days were the folkiest in recent memory: more acoustic, more intimate, and more traditionally minded than usual. Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley delivered their timeless Drive-By Trucker tunes as an acoustic duo, Katie Crutchfield performed highlights from her 2020 opus,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Since March, when the Covid-19 crisis flattened the livelihoods of many in the music business, Bandcamp has held a monthly holiday in which it waives its full revenue share on all sales. The idea was an immediate hit. Bandcamp Friday, which falls on November 6th this month, has successfully directed millions of fans’ dollars to the artists who rely on income from merch and music to pay their bills in a time of acute economic distress.
Along with the usual new releases and merch drops from independent artists (which we...
Along with the usual new releases and merch drops from independent artists (which we...
- 11/6/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Despite being separated by the global pandemic, the members of Drive-By Truckers unite for a bona fide quarantine love song. “Quarantine Together” imagines dating in the social distancing age, with Patterson Hood promising that if his new love interest will just come over to his place, he’ll stay six feet away. At least for the time being.
“What if we acclimate and call this isolation a date/Maybe enough time could go by we could be each other’s mistake,” he sings in one of the verses, before making his argument in the chorus.
“What if we acclimate and call this isolation a date/Maybe enough time could go by we could be each other’s mistake,” he sings in one of the verses, before making his argument in the chorus.
- 5/1/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Drive-By Truckers stare down the end of the world on their new song, “Armageddon’s Back in Town,” the first offering from their upcoming LP, The Unraveling, out January 31st via Ato Records.
“Armageddon’s Back in Town” is a ramshackle rocker, which is described in a statement as a “whirlwind joyride through the whiplash of events we collectively deal with each day.” The song finds co-frontman Patterson Hood grappling with a deluge of confusion, dismay, uncertainty and guilt as he sings, “There’ll be no healing from the...
“Armageddon’s Back in Town” is a ramshackle rocker, which is described in a statement as a “whirlwind joyride through the whiplash of events we collectively deal with each day.” The song finds co-frontman Patterson Hood grappling with a deluge of confusion, dismay, uncertainty and guilt as he sings, “There’ll be no healing from the...
- 11/20/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
On August 26th, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina stewed above the Gulf of Mexico, the Drive-By Truckers played a show at Tipitina’s in New Orleans. It was a two-and-a-half hour set, 27 songs, most of them from the band’s previous three records, Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day and, their most recent at the time, The Dirty South. Released a year prior, almost to the day, just a few months before George W. Bush won re-election, The Dirty South is an album about people pushed by outside and outsized forces that flattens...
- 9/6/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
When the fourth annual Outlaw Country Cruise docked in Nassau in the Bahamas on Wednesday morning, it picked up a new passenger: Country Music Hall of Fame member Bobby Bare. The 83-year-old singer, who became synonymous with the Outlaw genre via progressive albums like Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends and Lies, boarded the ship for two special concerts, one with his son Bobby Bare Jr., and another that evening as the subject of an all-star tribute.
Emceed by Deadwood actor — and perennial tribute host — W. Earl Brown, the production was a loose,...
Emceed by Deadwood actor — and perennial tribute host — W. Earl Brown, the production was a loose,...
- 1/31/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Drive-By Truckers leaders Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley will play several shows without their trusty backing band in April and May. The Dimmer Twins, named in homage to Glimmer Twins Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, will have a wealth of solo material and Truckers favorites between them to flesh out their setlists.
Hood and Cooley’s trek begins with an April 11th performance at Savannah Music Festival in Georgia, with subsequent shows scheduled through May 18th. The pair will play back-to-back nights at Asheville, North Carolina’s Grey Eagle; Seattle...
Hood and Cooley’s trek begins with an April 11th performance at Savannah Music Festival in Georgia, with subsequent shows scheduled through May 18th. The pair will play back-to-back nights at Asheville, North Carolina’s Grey Eagle; Seattle...
- 1/16/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
More than a decade before Drive-By Truckers released their first album, singer-songwriters Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood formed a fledgling North Alabama band called Adam’s House Cat. The group, which included Chuck Tremblay on drums and a revolving door of bassists, was more openly influenced by its mid-late 80’s indie contemporaries than the history-obsessed Truckers, who would take on more anachronistic subject matter when they began making their Skynyrd-obsessed Southern-punk later in the mid-late 90’s.
Town Burned Down, the sole lost album from Adam’s House Cat that’s...
Town Burned Down, the sole lost album from Adam’s House Cat that’s...
- 9/20/2018
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
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