Artist: Drive-By Truckers
Live Reviews from web archive November 17, 2008
Drive-By Truckers/Hold Steady
You can make yourself dizzy thinking of ways the Drive-By Truckers and the Hold Steady are similar, because each reason will ring untrue. It just may be that the only thing connecting these bands is their audience: you know, the beer-slugging collegiate types now suffering adulthood who appreciate the underdog passion of both bands, even [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #73 Jan-Feb 2008
Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
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 for cartographers, but it’s one thing to talk about a map — he talks about [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Drive-By Truckers – Holding on loosely
“If we took a year off, a real honest to God year off, it’d drive us all insane. We’d all be dead by the end of it. The five of us have done this because it’s cathartic, and it’s a release for us to work on these things. It’s very, very good for our well-being. [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #53 Sept-Oct 2004
Drive-By Truckers – The Dirty South
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 year they followed up with Decoration Day, a step forward in musical sophistication that pointed [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Drive-By Truckers – Alley Cats (Richmond, VA)
A few years ago, you could have caught the Drive-By Truckers playing a small bar in Richmond such as Humphrey J’s or Poe’s and gotten an excellent view of the band. At that time, the Truckers still played mostly country music, and more often than not they came close to outnumbering the audience. Since those [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003
The Drive-By Truckers – Rocking tall
The Drive-By Truckers don’t much care to have their picture made. It’s not the camera they object to, for few musicians are immune to the imagined comforts of fame. It’s just that they don’t like to be told where to stand, what to wear, or when to put down their beer. And they don’t pose. [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Drive-By Truckers – Melkweg (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The signs were ever-so-slightly ominous: Take a raucous, fun-loving, five-piece band from the American South and dump them smack-dab into the crazed den of debauchery that occasionally passes as the city of Amsterdam, home of “anything goes” and unbridled hedonistic tendencies. Add the fact that, merely three hours prior, one of Holland’s leading political figures [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #30 Nov-Dec 2000
Drive-By Truckers – Alabama Ass Whuppin’
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 find frontguy Patterson Hood, under a truckstop cap and behind an “ain’t this a blast” [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #22 July-Aug 1999
Drive-By Truckers – Pizza Deliverance
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 America thing: We may have grown up 900 miles apart, but somehow we biked on [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #16 July-Aug 1998
Drive-By Truckers – They crawled from the South
Hot New Country stinks, but you can’t smell it. Good country songs should effect at least three-fifths of your senses. Take, for example, the Drive-By Truckers song “Bulldozers And Dirt”: “Can’t get the red stains off of my socks/Can’t get ya out of my mind.” Your nose goes raw with the cold smell of red [...]
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