Jahfin Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 Y'ALL: It's the eve of destruction (self destructive zone) appetite for destruction, kiss destroyer... Let's just say I'm packing, loaded and ready for a big tour of Rock. Proud to announce that VINYL is here! Well mostly, as there's still no word on release date of BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK's impending vinyl release. GANGSTABILLY, PIZZA DELIVERANCE, DECORATION DAY, THE DIRTY SOUTH and BLESSING AND A CURSE have all become officially released on vinyl for first time in USA. Certainly a long time in coming milestone for me, as I don't even count them until they're out properly on 180gm. vinyl (most with gate-fold sleeves for proper separation, art work as big as a Montana sky, and that sound, oh that sound). As you know SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA has been out on vinyl for some time but other than a small run of British vinyl a few years back, this marks the first time for most of our titles. As for BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK on vinyl, we're as anxious as anyone and will gladly keep you posted as soon as we know anything at all. In the planning stages of this vinyl release, I was adamant about the vinyl release including a way to download to mp3, free with purchase. I hear I even went so far as to say that if they couldn't do that, not to bother, so in other words, I'm afraid it's MY FAULT! Sorry, i sure didn't mean to let my concern for providing a great deal for our fine friends who buy from us stand in the way of progress, but hopefully all of this will be worked out very soon and everyone can enjoy our new album the way it was intended to sound. Look for vinyl BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK as a two record set with mp3 for the iPod, and beautiful gate fold package sometime SOON. TOUR BEGINS next monday in Anaheim CA at The House of Blues on Feb. 11 and LA at The Avalon on Feb. 12. From there we will venture north and across the fine country and onward through march and beyond. Stay tuned for more tour dates to be announced soon as well as hopefully a TV appearance. Lots more to talk about and announce on the near horizon, but I'll save that for then and leave this where it is for now. See You at the Rock Show, Patterson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 Speaking of the vinyl releases, Music Direct is offering a deal on them via this bundle: http://www.musicdirect.com/product/81890 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danelectro Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 I've heard bad stuff about New West before so it didn't surprise me DBT had issues with them. I didn't see a thread about the new album so I'll chime in here. I'm not all that into it. I've pretty much loved everything DBT has done and I'm a long time fan but this album doesn't get me excited. I don't think it's a bad album but I do think the formula is starting to get a bit stale, specifically Patterson's style. He seems content to rewrite songs in the vein of Heathens and Lookout Mountain over and over, it was cool at first but it's starting to sound less like a style and more like repetition and lack of ideas. I really don't think the album suffers from Isbell's loss either. One thing that I noticed right from the start is the guitar tones are somewhat anemic compared to the huge sound they had on The Dirty South, the album doesn't do a good job in capturing the usual power of the band. The vibe of the album is noticably subdued so that may be part of it and honestly I always like the twangier side of the band more but still something seems to be missing. I do think there are some great songs on it, Cooley always turns in a good performance and some of his stuff sounds right out of Grevous Angel era GP songbook. It may just be me outgrowing the band but I've never jumped ship on a band before, not one that I've really liked anyway and DBT was "my band" for a long time. I'll see how I feel after I catch their show when they come through town later in the month but I'm already starting to regret I bought tix, I actually left before the encore last time I saw them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 I've only listened to it a couple of times but it's already growing on me more than I ever expected. As usual, the true test of the new tunes will be hearing them live. No dates for my part of NC yet but hopefully those will be announced along with the next leg of the tour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliet Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) Jahfin: DBT will be in Canada in March.... I saw an article/promo in EXCLAIM a Canadian music mag.... http://www.exclaim.ca/ Click on Recent Review Edited February 7, 2008 by Juliet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 Jahfin: DBT will be in Canada in March.... I saw an article/promo in EXCLAIM a Canadian music mag.... http://www.exclaim.ca/ Click on Recent Review I didn't see anything under Recently Reviewed but I did find this: http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/general...&fid1=29556 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliet Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 Hi: I'm glad you found the article that I saw this a.m. I thought it was in Recently Reviewed but I was in a hurry this a.m. so I obviously misread the links... I hope ya like the write-up.. I see the band won't be in London...maybe next time... J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 Thanks for the head's up. The Truckers aren't going to be making it overseas anytime soon but it looks like former bandmate Jason Isbell is: http://jasonisbell.com/tour.html EUROPE 2008 28/03/2008: Dolans, Limerick (Ireland) 29/03/2008: Cyprus Avenue, Cork (Ireland) 30/03/2008: Roisin Dubh, Galway (Ireland) 01/04/2008: Whelans, Dublin (Ireland) 03/04/2008: King Tuts, Glasgow (Scotland) 04/04/2008: The Cluny, Newcastle (England) 05/04/2008: Rescue Rooms, Nottingham (England) 06/04/2008: The Shed, Bedford (England) 07/04/2008: The Borderline, London (England) 08/04/2008: St Bonaventure, Bristol (England) 17/04/2008: W2, Den Bosch (Netherlands) 18/04/2008: Trix, Antwerp (Belgium) 19/04/2008: Blue Highway Festival, Utrecht (Netherlands) 20/04/2008: Lantaarn, Hellendoorn (Netherlands) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hammer of the Gods Posted February 8, 2008 Share Posted February 8, 2008 I just put The Dirty South on my wishlist. Giving this band a shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 8, 2008 Author Share Posted February 8, 2008 I just put The Dirty South on my wishlist. Giving this band a shot. Considering our similiar tastes in music, I think they'll be right up your alley. Let me know what ya think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 (edited) I have just purchased the new DBT album, Brighter Than Creation's Dark. My first impression of it, after one listen, is that I think they have improved. Damn, It's a lot better than A Blessing And A Curse, which is my least favorite since A Southern Rock Opera. I think this album will grow on me, and I wouldn't be suprised if it'll be one of my favorite DBT albums in a couple of listens. Not only is the songs great compositions, the performance is excellent as well. Love the stuff new guitarist John Neff is doing with the songs, his pedal steel is more than welcome, and of course, it's great that Shonna's stepping forward as a singer and songwriter and she does it very good. I've also have to mention her harmonies that she lays down with Patterson, it's fucking brilliant!!! What a team! Spooner on hammond and wurlitzer does a lot to the sound as well. With this new direction I can't say I miss Jason Isbell one bit. The future is promising and it's the least I can say! Edited February 12, 2008 by Swede Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 I have just purchased the new DBT album, Brighter Than Creation's Dark. My first impression of it, after one listen, is that I think they have improved. Damn, It's a lot better than A Blessing And A Curse, which is my least favorite since A Southern Rock Opera. I think this album will grow on me, and I wouldn't be suprised if it'll be one of my favorite DBT albums in a couple of listens. Not only is the songs great compositions, the performance is excellent as well. Love the stuff new guitarist John Neff is doing with the songs, his pedal steel is more than welcome, and of course, it's great that Shonna's stepping forward as a singer and songwriter and she does it very good. I've also have to mention her harmonies that she lays down with Patterson, it's fucking brilliant!!! What a team! Spooner on hammond and wurlitzer does a lot to the sound as well. With this new direction I can't say I miss Jason Isbell one bit. The future is promising and it's the least I can say! Glad to hear you like it, it's still growing on me as well. And just to clarify (and you may already know this) but John "Sho' Nuff" Neff has played pedal steel on every DBTs album since the beginning. He also toured with them back in the early days but due to the poor acoustics of the smalll clubs and other factors (like playing in at least a dozen other Athens area bands), he had to drop out for a few years. Glad to see him back touring with the DBT and making even more contributions to their records (on both pedal steel and guitar). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/articl...smell_the_glove SMELL THE GLOVE Writer: Patterson Hood Two things we can all agree on: 1. We all love Michael Jackson 2. We’re all glad he’s not our uncle. I was 18 and working at a record store in Florence, Ala., in the fall of 1982 when Thriller was released. At the time, it was considered the inferior follow-up to his 1979 solo breakthrough Off The Wall. It had that weak McCartney collaboration as a first single. Then again, it also had “Billie Jean” and “Beat It,” although neither of those had become ubiquitous by then. The elements were all there, but he hadn’t quite moonwalked into our collective consciousness yet. The Vincent Price thing seemed like a campy diversion, and “Human Nature” sounded like fucking Toto. Oh wait, it was fucking Toto. Then the shit hit the fan and nothing has been the same since. Thriller was the Star Wars of the music industry—it created a monster that’s hard to separate from the original work. Its artistic merits will always be weighed against the seismic cultural waves it unleashed. For the record, I consider “Billie Jean” one of the definitive singles of the entire Rock Era and a piece of pop songwriting at its best. I never really embraced the album, though. Preparing to write this piece, I went to the shelf and pulled out Off The Wall instead, and I’m really enjoying listening to it as I write. It’s an undeniably great work of pop and—post-Jackson 5—it stands as Michael’s finest hour. Patterson Hood is the co-founder of the Drive-By Truckers. Their latest release is entiteld "Brighter Than Creation's Dark." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swede Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 ^ Well, I have to admit I totally forgot that he played pedal steel on the other records, though I am aware there are pedal steel on them But it's a lot more of him on this album then anyone of the "Isbell-era" records I think.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 ^ Well, I have to admit I totally forgot that he played pedal steel on the other records, though I am aware there are pedal steel on them But it's a lot more of him on this album then anyone of the "Isbell-era" records I think.. Yes, there is and with all due respect to Jason, that's a good thing. I do love me the sound of a sweet pedal steel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 Drive-By Truckers: The Hard Roads of Transition, Trust and Truth A Conversation with Frontman Patterson Hood http://magazine.playbackmag.net/playback/200802/?folio=41 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragster Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Thanx jafhn....great links and vids to get started with!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragster Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 (edited) I suggest searching "Drive-By Truckers" on YouTube for some live clips. You can also sample some of their new tunes via their MySpace site: http://www.myspace.com/drivebytruckers Listening to Loaded gun in the Closet...the vid's cool. Edited February 13, 2008 by dragster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 The hard-boiled detective, the femme-fatale, and the lady in red...throw in a cameo by Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers, and you've got yourself a homage to film-noir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragster Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 The hard-boiled detective, the femme-fatale, and the lady in red...throw in a cameo by Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers, and you've got yourself a homage to film-noir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Drive-By Truckers are back on the road again and brought one of the most deeply probing and incendiary live rock shows out there to the Avalon in Hollywood on Tuesday night. The Georgia-based band just released its eighth album, "Brighter Than Creation's Dark" (New West), and a good part of the 105-minute performance featured the new material, though the group worked in crowd favorites from various past releases. Initially, the set was slow-burn, leading off with the melancholy "Wife Beater," dating back to their 1998 debut "Gangstabilly." Bandleader-guitarists Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley traded off lead vocal spots on songs with bassist Shonna Tucker, who's holding her own as a singer-songwriter in the wake of Jason Isbell's departure for solo pastures. With founding member John Neff now returning to the fold on squealing pedal steel and a third biting electric guitar and music legend Spooner Oldham (of Muscle Shoals studio fame, like Hood's father David) on keyboards, the group was lyrical and fierce, unleashing tales of America fueled by fret firepower. The band truly began to blaze with a reworked "Puttin' People on the Moon," the tribal tom-toms of drummer Brad Morgan driving a harrowing look at small-town unemployment struggles, a wife's cancer and one lyric changed from "Reagan in the White House" to Bush. That's what the Truckers are all about: real songs about real people that the current for-the-rich-only administration has ignored as those lives go further down the social toilet. Where Hood often is the band's storyteller-poet and balladeer, Cooley has a rocker's heart, cutting loose for songs that included the swaggering "Marry Me" and spun some tales himself, like the saloon country of the new "Self-Destructive Zone." There was the off-center profile of "Bob," who never married but isn't "light in the loafers" and takes care of his mama; a wired version of "Sinkhole" from 2003's "Decoration Day"; and the epic "Lookout Mountain" off 2004's "The Dirty South." While the touchstones could be spotted -- lots of Neil Young and Crazy Horse-styled din-and-grind and Stonesy rockin' -- ultimately it's still a sound that's all the Truckers' own, both rich and raggedly powerful. Tipping their hat to another inspiration, the band returned for an encore of "Buttholeville," from their debut, shifting into a blistering version of Bruce Springsteen's paranoia-drenched "State Trooper." In a world of real justice, the Drive-By Truckers would at least be headlining a Gibson Amphitheatre-size venue. But calculated pandering rules the mainstream, and this brilliant rough-'n'-tumble outfit bravely travels the alternate highways as perhaps the best rock band in America right now. The bill also featured the Truckers' longtime buds North Mississippi Allstars and the Felice Brothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 Looking Bright For The Truckers "I kind of like the way a song sounds when everyone's struggling to learn it more than the take when it's all polished. Sometimes there's more raw inspiration in those early takes." --Patterson Hood Jeff Vrabel, Savannah, Ga. First things first: the Drive-By Truckers' seventh record, "Brighter Than Creation's Dark," which came out in January via New West, is extremely long. Nineteen tracks long. Can't-burn-two-seconds-more-on-the-CD long. Long enough that Patterson Hood says it would have probably been a double album if the record company had been remotely OK with it. "It seems like it's telling a story," said Hood, "It's really not. It's more like it's implying one." Read the rest of the article here: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/feature/art...t_id=1003710278 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 15, 2008 Author Share Posted February 15, 2008 Drive-By Truckers carry the torch for rock and roll BY MICHAEL DEEDS - mdeeds@idahostatesman.com Despite the fact that the Drive-By Truckers were touring in support of their ambitious double-album "Southern Rock Opera," the band's career hadn't shifted into high gear when they last rocked Boise in 2002. The Athens, Ga.-based group - founded in 1996 by longtime musical partners Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley - performed as an opening act at Neurolux. More than six years later, the Drive-By Truckers are hailed as the greatest Southern-rock act of the 21st century. In what promises to be a Boise concert highlight of 2008, the Truckers will headline at The Big Easy on Tuesday night. Read the remainder of the article here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/276/story/296178.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 (edited) From the ninebullets.org board: Hey guys, I just found out about this and was asked to pass the info along. The DBT documentary, "The Secret to a Happy Ending" is going to have it's World Premiere in Florence, Alabama on Friday, April 18th. It's part of Alabama Studio Weekend. You can find out more about other events here: http://www.alabamastudio.org Details about the film screening below.... 8:00 - 10 pm The Shoals Theater The world premiere screening of "The Secret to a Happy Ending", a documentary film by Barr Weissman about The Drive-by Truckers. Nearly 4 years in the making, the film features interviews and musical performances, as well as in studio, road and at home footage. Corner of Mobile and Seminary Streets in Florence Open to the Public Edited February 22, 2008 by Jahfin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahfin Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 According to a post on the ninebullets.org board the Truckers are scheduled to be on Late Night with Conan O'Brien March 11th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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