In 2001, the Drive-By Truckers released their third studio album, “Southern Rock Opera.” It was a dream conceived by members of the band before they even officially formed, back in 1998; a kind of ...

Sitting near the center of “Southern Rock Opera,” the double-album breakthrough that placed Drive-By Truckers on the rock ‘n’ roll map, are a pair of Patterson Hood songs that speak directly to the ...

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Drive-By Truckers are marking the upcoming 2024 presidential election with an expanded new edition of their landmark 2016 album, American Band, arriving via ATO Records on Friday, November 1. The ...

Earlier this year, Drive-By Truckers founders Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood revisited the band’s third album, 2001′s “Southern Rock Opera,” and the group hit the road for the “Southern Rock Opera ...

The Truckers were, as Hood puts it, “an older band” then—maybe too old to be gigging so damn much—but the songs were connecting, and folks were liking his music for the first time in his life. “We all ...

In their repertoire, southern rockers the Drive-By Truckers have songs about all sorts of natural disasters: floods, tornadoes, sinkholes, thunderstorms, bachelor parties. Co-founding singer/guitarist ...

It's been three years since "Welcome 2 Club XIII" dropped, so the Drive-By Truckers must be due for a new album. Considering the content of 2001's "Southern Rock Opera" and 2016's "American Band," ...

As author of 2021 book “Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers,” Bloomington-based music journalist Stephen Deusner knows the band’s 2001 breakthrough recording, ...

For some reason, last night’s epic Drive-By Truckers show – two solid hours of soul-searing rock and roll, lump-in-the-throat-raising country and spine-cracking R&B – reminded me of when Prince’s ...

Even in its '70s prime, Southern rock had a hint of redneck self-parody. The members of Alabama's Drive by Truckers obviously spent a large part of their youth listening to albums such as "Street ...

If you look up the word multi-tasker in the dictionary, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to find Patterson Hood’s picture smiling back at you. The Drive-By Truckers’ (DBT) founding member not only ...