Since I fell back in love with the Truckers in October at the Tab, I’d been looking forward to the date at the Cradle, soon after Trav’s move here, for weeks. It totally, totally turned out to be worth it — a two hour set full of rarities and heavy on The Dirty South, Decoration…
Tag: drive-by truckers
concerts: drive-by truckers @ the tabernacle
I wrote about the Truckers for Speakers this week. Full set, including St. Paul & the Broken Bones, on Flickr. Set list: English Oceans / Righteous Path / A Ghost To Most / Pauline Hawkins / Birthday Boy / Girls Who Smoke / Where The Devil Won’t Stay / Sinkhole / Sounds Better In The…
flashback friday: mike cooley on film
I wanted to have something smart and reflective to say about taking Trav to see the Truckers at the Tab tonight, but I’m having a crisis of photography faith, so instead I went looking for the first shot I took on film that made me believe I could do this. Six years later, I am…
drive-by truckers @ haw river ballroom
I hadn’t seen the Truckers in almost 18 months — Hopscotch 2011 — and when Patterson launched into “The Living Bubba” last night, even as I was deeply exhausted and irritated at the crowd, it felt like a physical relief to see the band. They have meant so much to me for many years, and while…
album review: patterson hood — heat lightning rumbles in the distance
Patterson Hood — Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance. Out 9/4, ATO Records. Patterson Hood has always been my least favorite songwriter of those who’ve passed through and stayed in the Drive-By Truckers; this doesn’t mean I don’t love Patterson’s songwriting, not by any stretch of the imagination, because I do, and he’s written some of…
hopscotch music fest day 2
Full set is still here and still being updated.
drive-by truckers — go-go boots
Drive-By Truckers — Go Go Boots. Out 2/15, ATO Records. I am going to get this out of the way first: I do not like this album as much as I liked The Big To-Do; in fact, it isn’t even close. There are tracks I love, and there are things about it that really work…
top ten shows of 2010
Today kicks off a couple of year end lists; tomorrow you’ll get EPs and tracks, and next week, a massive list of albums the making of which may make me more insane than usual, but which will be thorough if nothing else. Today, though: today you get my Top 10 Live Shows of 2010. I…
after the waltz
You must, after the age of 33, continue to do a certain type of work, or else go into the shoe business; forget music or it’ll turn into hatred, or else reiteration, redundancy, and in many cases death. — Garth Hudson of the Band, 1984. I wonder what Patterson Hood would think of that. One…
bristol rhythm & roots reunion 2010
Cost effective and bitchin’, as one of my coworkers would say. Happy 10th birthday, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion! You don’t look a day over seven. You were a highlight of 2009, and you brought it again in 2010. Can’t wait for 2011. “Was that your brother?” One of the best parts of the festival…
brand new kind of photography 