Drive-By Truckers

Albums

• Brighter Than Creation's Dark (2008)
• A Blessing And A Curse (2006)
• Live At The 40 Watt DVD (2005)
• Pizza Deliverance (2005)
• Gangstabilly (2005)
• The Dirty South (2004)
• Decoration Day (2003)

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Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife 3 Dimes Down The Righteous Path I’m Sorry Huston Perfect Timing Daddy Needs A Drink Self Destructive Zone Bob Home Field Advantage Opening Act Lisa’s Birthday That Man I Shot The Purgatory Line The Homefront Checkout Time In Vegas You And Your Crystal Meth Goode’s Field Road A Ghost To Most The Monument Valley

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Feb. 14 Gravity’s Gone Easy On Yourself Aftermath USA Goodbye Daylight Wednesday Little Bonnie Space City A Blessing And A Curse A World Of Hurt

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Where The Devil Don’t Stay Tornadoes Day John Henry Died Puttin’ People On The Moon Carl Perkins’ Cadillac Sinkhole Never Gonna Change Cottonseed Buford Stick Southern Thing Decoration Day Marry Me Goddamn Lonely Love Lookout Mountain Daddy’s Cup Danko/Manuel Living Bubba Outfit Women Without Whiskey Shut Up and Get on the Plane Careless People Who Die

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Bulldozers and Dirt Nine Bullets Uncle Frank Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus) Box of Spiders One of These Days Margo and Harold The Company I Keep The President’s Penis Is Missing Tales Facing Up Love Like This Mrs. Dubose Zoloft The Night G.G. Allin Came To Town

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Wife Beater Demonic Possession The Tough Sell The Living Bubba Late For Church Panties In Your Purse Why Henry Drinks 18 Wheels of Love Steve McQueen Buttholeville Sandwiches For The Road

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Where The Devil Don’t Stay Tornadoes The Day John Henry Died Puttin’ People On The Moon Carl Perkins’ Cadillac The Sands of Iwo Jima Danko/Manuel The Boys from Alabama Cottonseed The Buford Stick Daddy’s Cup Never Gonna Change Lookout Mountain Goddamn Lonely Love

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The Deeper In Sink Hole Hell No, I Ain’t Happy Marry Me My Sweet Annette Outfit Heathens Sounds Better In A Song (Something’s Got To) Give Pretty Soon Your Daddy Hates Me Careless When The Pin Hits The Shell Do It Yourself Decoration Day Loaded Gun In The Close

Bio

Longtime friends Patterson Hood (son of famed Muscle Shoals bassist David Hood) and Mike Cooley first came together in 1985 to form a punk inspired band called Adam’s House Cat. The group disbanded several years later, and Cooley and Patterson formed several follow-up projects before moving to different cities. They eventually reconvened in Athens, GA where the duo formed the Drive-By Truckers circa 1996. The band debuted Gangstabilly in 1998, followed closely by Pizza Deliverence. DBT showed its force as a live act with the release of Alabama Ass Whoopin’ in 2000, a live concert recording taken from a show in Athens, GA. Then the band really took a step forward with the double-disc concept album Southern Rock Opera, released in 2002 by Lost Highway and recorded during a heat wave in Birmingham, AL. In 2003 the Drive-By Truckers were picked up by New West Records and released Decoration Day, which featured songs from newcomer guitarist/singer Jason Isbell (also from Muscle Shoals). Hood, Cooley and Isbell all three served as songwriters and front men for their following two critically acclaimed releases, 2004’s The Dirty South and 2006’s A Blessing and a Curse.

2007 was a year of transition and reinvention for the band, who had been on the road almost constantly since the fall of 2001. After a break to recharge, and the amicable and mutual departure of Jason Isbell from the group, the band was forced to move on and rethink things. This “led us to strip everything down to the essential elements of song and rebuild it from scratch. This led to us booking and playing a semi-acoustic tour we named The Dirt Underneath where we would go out without all of the trappings and decorations of “The Big Rock Show” and put the emphasis on the songs and stories. It also gave us a chance to acquaint everyone with our dear friend John Neff. Neff was a founding member of our band who continued to play on our albums from time to time and he became a full-time part of the touring band a couple of years ago,” said Hood. The new DBT, along with Muscle Shoals legend Spooner Oldham, were called upon to back up Betty LaVette on her 2007 release The Scene of the Crime. This led to Oldham joining the band for The Dirt Underneath Tour, and eventually recording with DBT for their excellent January 2008 release Brighter Than Creations Dark.