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News:06-10-04: Killers & Stars reviewsRolling Stone.comKnoxville News Sentinel Glide Magazine Creative Loafing Gwinnett Daily Post (GA) Commercial Appeal Athens Banner-Herald (registration required) Nashville Rage ESP Magazine Pitchfork.com Flagpole (Athens, GA) The News and Observer (Raliegh, SC) All Music Guide Austin Chronicle Billboard.com Knoxville Metro Post Washington Post(registration may be required) Winston-Salem Journal 05-04-04: Look who's comingPatterson Hood's Killers & Stars hits stores today! The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) caught up with Patterson recently to discuss his solo album and the upcoming release of Drive-By Truckers' The Dirty South, due for release in August.[read the interview] 4-29-04: Pasadena Weekly reviews
“The Drive-By Truckers frontman's sold this recording (in stores Tuesday) at solo shows as a work in progress, but ultimately, and wisely, decided to unleash it, unsweetened. It's just Hood wailing and rasping over his guitar, unloading emotionally charged songs recorded over two tense nights in 2001. As with Springsteen, whose early music was fueled by similar rock-can-save-the-world fervor, Hood's ragged voice and worldview are resolutely working-class. Railing into the quiet of his dining room, he irreverently ponders female celebrities (the profane 'Belinda Carlisle Diet,' 'Frances Farmer' and 'Cat Power'), unsentimentally mourns his grandfather's senility ('Old Timer's Disease') and waxes winningly cynical ('Uncle Disney': 'America's just a giant theme park/ Put on them mouse ears and get in line'). Think of it as his own private Nebraska.”
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