I have never quite loved the Drive-By Truckers. For one thing, I have always been a little put off by the awkward self-awareness of Patterson Hood’s ambitions. God knows the moral and cultural geography of the modern south cries out […]
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The Drive-By Truckers established themselves as the fiercest contemporary incarnation of southern rock in 2001 with Southern Rock Opera, a sprawling, 20-song, two-CD opus that weighed in on what they referred to as “the duality of the southern thing.” Last […]
Not that they were ever a shy and retiring bunch, but when the Drive-By Truckers first started visiting my neck of the North Carolina woods four years ago, their shows did have the random pedal steel-calmed moment. These days you’ll […]
Alabama-reared Patterson Hood and the rest of Drive By Truckers are Southerners, and I’m a Northerner, so the connection I feel to the best songs on the band’s sophomore release, Pizza Deliverance, is not geographical. It’s more of a small-town […]
Remember the scene in Diner when the characters played by Daniel Stern and Kevin Bacon disagree about whether the A-side of a Ritchie Valens single was “La Bamba” or “Donna”? A similar debate, albeit a noncinematic and less historically significant […]
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