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Articles tagged "drive-by truckers"Featured Article Events ReviewDrive-By Truckers + The Whigs: 23 July 2009 - The Shoals Theatre, Florence, ALby G E Light[1.Sep.09] :. The Drive-By Truckers play their hometown of Florence, Alabama for the first time in five years. Music ReviewDrive-By Truckers: Live from Austin TXby Scott Hreha[17.Aug.09] :. Live from Austin TX is still an excellent document of a great rock 'n roll band doing what it does best. NewsDrive-By Truckers are cruising againby Walter Tunis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][27.Feb.09] :. Three tunes into “Brighter Than Creation’s Dark,” a typically literate and lyrically stark album of rural rock meditations by Drive-By Truckers, sits a song called “The...  NewsA rock ‘n’ roll two-fer: Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers hit the road togetherby Chris Riemenschneider [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)][18.Nov.08] :. Of all the storytelling rock ‘n’ roll frontmen out there, Craig Finn and Patterson Hood probably spend more time than anyone singing and talking about the bands they love. Finn’s...  Column: Field StudiesRighteous Pathsby Andrew Gilstrap[9.Jun.08] :. The Drive-By Truckers' live shows once played like a songwriters-in-the-round session with electric guitars and increasingly empty bottles of Jack Daniels. Then Jason Isbell came along -- and it only got better.  Events ReviewDrive-By Truckers: 19 March 2008 - Torontoby Stuart Henderson[17.Apr.08] :. These days, the Drive-By Truckers are nearly revolutionary in their refusal to treat their music as ironic, as some kind of joyless, angsty joke. No, the Truckers live for this stuff. Drive-By Truckers: The Burrs in Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Saddleby Andy Tennille[29.Jan.08] :. The Truckers earned universal acclaim for their well-crafted rock albums and raucous live shows, but 2008 marks a new era. PopMatters talks with Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood. Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation’s Darkby Adrien Begrand[22.Jan.08] :. Although they haven't lost a step since Jason Isbell left, the Drive-By Truckers' seventh album doesn't know when to say when. Jason Isbell: Sirens of the Ditchby Zeth Lundy[9.Jul.07] :. Debut solo album from ex-Drive-By Trucker is a slickly produced record of conservative hard rock and country-tinged balladry whose polish floats a little too far from his former band's grungier orbit. Drive-By Truckers bring a little Southern comfortby Justin Jarrett [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][3.Apr.07] :. Led by a triumvirate of guitarists/singers/songwriters in Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell, the Drive-By Truckers are distinctively Southern—the band originated in Muscle Shoals,... Drive-By Truckers: A Blessing and a Curseby Zeth Lundy[14.Apr.06] :. A Blessing and a Curse continues to distance itself from the Truckers' "Lynyrd Skynyrd with a higher IQ" roots, drawing from both the Replacements and the Rolling Stones for its rock 'n' roll sound. Drive-By Truckers: 23 September 2005 - Austin, TXby Timothy Kiteless[5.Oct.05] :. A great band on an off day is still better than some bands on their best. Here's proof... Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty South: Live at the 40 Watt [DVD]by Adrien Begrand[15.Jun.05] :. With five superb studio albums behind them, the Drive-By Truckers have emerged as one of the finest American rock bands of the past decade, as each release not only has been met with critical... Drive-By Truckers: Gangstabilly / Pizza Deliveranceby Adrien Begrand[28.Feb.05] :. Bulldozers, Bullets, and Buttholes: Early tales from the Dirty South from one of the best rock bands in America. Drive-By Truckersby Lou Friedman[19.Jan.05] :. A warning for the By-curious. No smoke machines or fancy lights here, just two hours of solid, ass-kicking music. Sorry. Drive-By Truckers: The Dirty Southby Adrien Begrand[30.Aug.04] :. Watching Martin Scorsese’s 1978 film The Last Waltz on DVD, the sadness is inescapable. When you see the 1978 film, which documents The Band’s final concert on Thanksgiving Night,... PopMatters Pick Music ReviewDrive-By Truckers: Decoration Dayby Adrien Begrand[25.Jun.03] :. 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. Drive-By Truckersby Kandia Crazy Horse[21.Aug.02] :. My True South, Or, Kick Ass with the Drive-By Truckers Once upon a time, there was Carl Perkins. Not so long after that, there was Ronnie Van Zant. In subsequent years, various listener... Drive-By Truckers: Southern Rock Operaby Andrew Gilstrap[26.Jul.02] :. Ah, the South. It’s a contradictory place to be sure. Our storytelling tradition has generated some of the nation’s best writers, but low SAT scores in reading sweep across the region.... The Drive-by Truckers: Southern Rock Operaby S. Renee Dechert[24.Sep.01] :. Lynyrd Skynyrd's music has long been placed in a second-class category; now, the Drive-by Truckers are reclaiming its status as art while exploring 'the duality of the South'. Drive-By Truckers: Alabama Ass Whuppin’by Kevin OliverThis disc is subtitled, “Live and loud way down in Georgia, 1999”, and that sums up the rocking redneck roar of these raucous roots-rock raconteurs from Athens, Georgia. DBT’s... |
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