Patterson Hood

Archive

February 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Drive-By Truckers: The Unraveling

Drive-By Truckers The Unraveling ATO Records For the best part of a quarter-century and across at least a dozen albums Drive-By Truckers has built a name. And that name is Quality. That name is Integrity. I like to say that they’re – somehow – getting better with each and every album and though that’s perhaps […]

Archive

August 13, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Drive-By Truckers: It’s Great To Be Alive!

Drive-By Truckers It’s Great To Be Alive! ATO Records Near the end of 2014 Drive-By Truckers ran a three-night-stand at San Francisco’s Fillmore and this is the triple-disc set that captures the best of their efforts there. It’s a wondrous thing – utterly raw and beautifully ugly. That songwriters Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood both […]

Archive

April 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Jason Isbell: Still Truckin’ – Out On His Own….

Jason Isbell is very happy with the response to his latest album, Southeastern. The album might make you think he’s miserable. But he’s not – he’s in a really good place (Nashville – he loves it). He’s newly married – to musician Amanda Shires – and he’s at peace with his old band. You might […]

Archive

March 3, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Drive-By Truckers: English Oceans

Drive-By Truckers English Oceans ATO Records To go calling any one album by Drive-By Truckers their finest would be a disservice to a catalogue with no holes, no black marks, no misfires. It’s solid-solid-solid, hints of R.E.M and the band Wilco used to be, traces of filthy blues-rock era Stones and writing that is steeped […]