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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). |
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| | 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." |
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| | Drive By Truckers |
| | For Alabamas Drive By Truckers, that cycle of story telling has been at the root of the bands 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. | | | In addition to the release of The Dirty South, Drive By Truckers will also be releasing a live DVD that was filmed during the CD release shows for the album. | | | Drive By Truckers finally got that chance, with The Dirty South, laying down their tracks in the same studio that gave birth to Percy Sledges When a Man Loves a Woman, Wilson Picketts Mustang Sally and Aretha Franklin's Do Right Woman, among others. |
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http://www.marqueemag.com/10_04/DBT.html
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| | Country Standard Time: Drive-By Truckers, September 2003 |
| | 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. | | | Drive-By Truckers make music that is too rock for country, yet probably a little too country for straight-ahead rock fans. | | | Drive-By Truckers is sometimes called a Southern rock revival band these days and lumped in with acts such as Kings Of Leon. |
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http://www.countrystandardtime.com/drivebytruckersFEATURE.html
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| | Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South - PopMatters Music Review |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/drivebytruckers-dirtysouth.shtml
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| | Drive-By Truckers on New West Records |
| | Preview the DVD of the Truckers playing live at the 40 Watt. | | | 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. | | | and the Truckers are on most of them, so we made this Ecard to celebrate the year. |
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http://www.newwestrecords.com/drivebytruckers.php
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| | 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. |
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http://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=4149
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| | Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South: Pitchfork Review |
| | 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. | | | Pusser is part of what Patterson Hood calls "the Mythological South" in the liner notes to the Drive-By Truckers' sixth album, the inevitably titled The Dirty South. | | | 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. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/drive-by-truckers/dirty-south.shtml
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| | Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South (2004): Reviews |
| | 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. | | | The Drive-By Truckers are the best, smartest, and most soulful hard rock band to emerge in a very long time. | | | The Truckers may very well be the best all-around rock band putting out music today. |
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http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/drivebytruckers/dirtysouth
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| | Tucson Weekly: Southern Men (January 24 - January 30, 2002) |
| | Drive-By Truckers are (l-r) Brad Morgan, Earl Hicks, Patterson Hood, and Mike Cooley. | | | Although based in Athens, Ga., the Truckers hold close to their hearts the famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studios and the classic school of R&B music to which it gave its name. | | | 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. |
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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/2002-01-24/mus.html
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| | 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. | | | A Blessing And A Curse ~ Drive-by Truckers | | | Drive By Truckers - Dirty South - Live at the 40 Watt DVD ~ Eleanor (II) |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000068FUS?v=glance
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| | Drive-By Truckers |
| | Drive By Truckers Bring New Album in Spring | | | Drive-By Truckers follow a career-defining masterpiece with another brilliant album | | | The Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood Sings His Songs |
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| | 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. |
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http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=drive-by_truckers
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| | DVD: Drive-By Truckers - Entertainment |
| | The Drive-By Truckers are a pretty good band, and they seem to know it. | | | If the Drive-By Truckers want to pretend to be steeped in Southern culture and rock 'n' roll, they could at least get fall-down drunk and play 10-minute guitar solos. | | | Although the Truckers claim to emulate Lynyrd Skynyrd, "40 Watt" offers about as many improvised guitar solos as a live recording of Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life." And while they claim to have roots in the American punk-rock tradition, they're too busy harmonizing like Southern-rock Beach Boys to offer any physical stage presence. |
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http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2005/05/11/Entertainment/Dvd-DriveBy.Truckers-950826.shtml
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| | 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. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/music/music-longprint110301.html
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| | 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. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/d/drivebyturckers-decoration.shtml
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| | 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 Youngs 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. | | | Ragged rebel yells echo through the threshing Farm Aid anthem "Sink Hole," the chugging rocky groove of "Do It Yourself," and the Eagles-meet-the-Stones swagger of "Marry Me," while "Heathens," "Sounds Better in the Song," and "Give Pretty Soon" form a triptych about a relationship on the rocks. |
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| | Songoose.com - Drive-By Truckers, Decoration Day |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | As much as the Truckers can rock out, they don't shy away from showcasing their softer side. |
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| | 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 |
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| | Pollstar -- HotStar Drive By Truckers |
| | After two independent studio albums and one live CD, the Drive-By Truckers decided it was time to finish their magnum opus, which, instead of a movie, became the two-disk Southern Rock Opera. | | | That may be an understatement, though, as the Drive-By Truckers prepare to embark on their second European tour in two years. | | | The next album will be out shortly thereafter, which means the Truckers will once again be hitting the road for the long haul. |
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http://www.pollstar.com/news/viewhotstar.cgi?Artist=DRITRU
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| | Drive-By Truckers - Official Store: Records On CD Department |
| | Re-issue of the long out of print CD by the Drive-By Truckers. | | | The Drive-By Truckers are purveyors of a new kind of southern rock storytelling - dense, dark, majestic and intelligent. | | | The result is very thought out and deliberate with a decided air of sophistication (Truckers style!). |
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| | 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. |
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http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=5541
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| | Drive By Truckers: Stopping For Nothing |
| | The Drive By Truckers have had three renowned albums (Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day, The Dirty South) in the last four years, plus you released your own solo album as well. | | | In true reflection of their sweaty, hardworking, southern background, the Drive By Truckers are stopping for nothing and chugging unwaveringly ahead. | | | With perseverance, the Truckers have held on for dear life, much like the characters and tales in their chilling songs. |
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| | Drive-By Truckers |
| | The Drive-By Truckers packed 'em in Wednesday night at the Troubadour with a searing sold-out show built on the Georgia band's powerful New West album, "The Dirty South." | | | While the band's approach is rooted in the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd, who inspired the Truckers' 2001 concept album "Southern Rock Opera," the group also finds kindred spirits in the metallic clang and fury of Neil Young and Crazy Horse and the rootsy, blue-collar Bottle Rockets. | | | Bottom line: From blistering guitars to vivid musical snapshots of twisted lives, this ain't no scenic drive across the South. |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000682252
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| | Drive-By Truckers, Gangstabilly |
| | Fans of Drive-By Truckers and their piercing accounts of southern white-trash culture have reason to fear the reissue of the band’s first two albums. | | | The Truckers’ later gloss on the Lynyrd Skynyrd mystique might suggest they took their musical cues from Ronnie Van Zant and company. | | | Released in 1998, Gangstabilly offers a different perspective, presenting the group as old-fashioned folk-rockers-not Byrds disciples, but acoustic songwriters with a beat-more comfortable with mandolins and steel guitars than big electric riffs. |
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http://www.harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=2955
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| | XL Music CD Reviews Drive-By Truckers, Beaver Nelson, Animal Collective - Aug. 26, 2004 |
| | Take one out of the equation and the Truckers would still be a great band (Isbell wasn't on board yet when the band recorded its much-ballyhooed 2001 opus "Southern Rock Opera"), but they wouldn't be making records as great as last year's "Decoration Day" and this year's model, "The Dirty South." | | | If the Truckers have a weakness, it's a habit of always just overstaying their welcome. | | | As the title suggests, "The Dirty South" offers few real surprises from the DBTs, who remain obsessed with the duality of their native South and the power of "Rock!" (best played loud with no fewer than three guitars, and always spelled with a capital "R" in Hood's liner notes). |
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http://www.austin360.com/xl/content/music/xl/04-august/cdreviews_08-26-04.html
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| | Drive-By Truckers - Entertainment |
| | 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. | | | 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. | | | Based in Georgia, the band has rarely strayed north of the Mason-Dixon Line in the five albums they've released since forming in 1996. |
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| | [Rcsoup] Drive By Truckers |
| | Later, AC (non-Craphole version) ----- Original Message ----- From: Al Chambers To: rcsoup at monroe.lib.mi.us Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 12:30 AM Subject: [Rcsoup] Drive By Truckers Bought a DBT cd from the advice of fellow souper Al Cope. | | | I had a 180 mile roundtrip drive today and thought I needed something "new" to listen to. | | | As is the case with Jason and the Scorchers, the hook is not set in you with the Truckers until you experience their live show. |
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http://monroe.lib.mi.us/pipermail/rcsoup/2005-July/000199.html
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| | Drive-By Truckers Eyeing New Album In Spring |
| | Southern rock act the Drive-By Truckers are spending much of their fall putting the finishing touches on their as-yet-untitled sixth studio album, due next spring on New West Records. | | | In addition, Hood says the song "World of Hurt," inspired by his daughter, will be the Truckers' disc's last track. | | | Hood will wait until after the next Truckers record to mix and master "Oscar," the follow-up to his dark 2004 release "Killers and Stars." "Oscar" will feature Hood's father, longtime Muscle Shoals session man David Hood, as well as Truckers Cooley, Jason Isbell and Shonna Tucker. |
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http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001348712
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| | 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. |
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http://www.corporatemofo.com/stories/031102DBT.htm
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