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Posted 08 November 2010 - 12:58 PM

Here's the press release for their new record which is due 2.14.11. I saw the documentary (The Secret To A Happy Ending) at a screening in Richmond earlier this year. It was really well done. Not sure how much editing has been done to it since then but it should still be very worthwhile viewing.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS TO RELEASE GO-GO BOOTS ON FEBRUARY 15th ON ATO RECORDS

New York, NY – Drive-By Truckers will release Go-Go Boots, on February 15, 2011 on ATO Records. Go-Go Boots is their eleventh record and was produced by their longtime producer, David Barbe (Deerhunter, Bettye LaVette, Sugar). In conjunction with Go-Go Boots, they’ll also be releasing their documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending on DVD.

Go-Go Boots builds on their roots with the old Muscle Shoals country-and-soul sound. “We recorded nearly 40 songs last year and into this year and fairly early on divided it into two separate albums” explains DBT co-founder Patterson Hood. “The Big To-Do, released first, was the more straight forward "Rock" album. Go-Go Boots is what I sometimes (semi-jokingly) refer to as our country, soul, and murder ballad album. Those elements definitely play into it, but it's a little more open ended than that.”

The Secret to a Happy Ending is a film about the redemptive power of rock-and-roll. It’s a film about the American South, where rock was born. It’s about a group of kids that grew up amidst the sweet soul music made in Muscle Shoals, Alabama by black and white musicians while the civil rights movement exploded all around. It’s about leaving home and embracing the DIY ethos of punk. It’s about making art, making love and making a living. It’s a film about the Drive-By Truckers. Select screenings of the documentary are still being shown in theaters and FilmBuff will be releasing the movie on iTunes and across other digital platforms.

The band will show their appreciation for vinyl and independent record stores by releasing a special 10” 45 with “Thanksgiving Filter” and “Used To Be A Cop” on Record Store Day, November 26th. Both songs will be on Go-Go Boots and the release will be a limited pressing of only 2,500 copies and will feature a special sleeve designed by Wes Freed as well as a download card.

DBT will be releasing a series of Go-Go Boots episodes directed by Patterson Hood and Jason Thrasher. As a preview to the episodes they’ve released a video for “Used To Be a Cop” that can be viewed here:

The band will kick off a month long tour in Europe this week and will end the year with a bang playing New Year’s Eve in New York city at Terminal 5. The Go-Go Boots tour will be announced soon.

The Drive-By Truckers are Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, Brad Morgan, John Neff and Jay Gonzalez.

Go-Go Boots track listing:

1. I Do Believe
2. Go-Go Boots
3. Dancin’ Ricky
4. Cartoon Gold
5. Ray’s Automatic Weapon
6. Everybody Needs Love
7. Assholes
8. The Weakest Man
9. Used To Be A Cop
10. The Fireplace Poker
11. Where’s Eddie
12. The Thanksgiving Filter
13. Pulaski
14. Mercy Buckets
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Posted 10 November 2010 - 06:48 PM

I can't wait. I've listened to the Truckers more than almost any band this year.
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Posted 10 November 2010 - 07:36 PM

View PostDream Brother, on 10 November 2010 - 06:48 PM, said:

I can't wait. I've listened to the Truckers more than almost any band this year.

Any thoughts on the single (Used To Be A Cop)? It doesn't immediately grab me but that's not to say it won't grow on me in the weeks and months to come.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 16 November 2010 - 01:24 PM

Patterson Hood reviews the upcoming Go-Go Boots webisodes.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 16 November 2010 - 07:43 PM

can we skip to 2011 already?
did you mean "after hours"?

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Posted 19 November 2010 - 02:31 AM

I saw them two nights ago in Amsterdam. It surprised me how much the Dutch audience was into this very Southern sounding band.
I did really like the new single.

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Posted 26 November 2010 - 01:08 PM

The Drive By Truckers are the best band in America today.

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Posted 29 November 2010 - 10:30 AM

From their recent Halloween show in Richmond, VA when they came out dressed as police officers in honor of their new song, "Used To Be A Cop":


"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 16 December 2010 - 12:33 PM


"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 12 January 2011 - 10:24 AM



"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 12 January 2011 - 11:07 AM



"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 12 January 2011 - 11:08 AM


"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids

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Posted 19 January 2011 - 05:16 PM

Exclusive Premiere: Drive-By Truckers "The Go-Go Boots - Episode 4: Eddie Hinton"
Watch the Drive-By Truckers love for soul singer Eddie Hinton, and "The Secret To A Happy Ending."

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Patterson Hood and crew made a series of mini-documentaries related to the various themes and influences the band explores on their next album, "Go-Go Boots." The eight episodes are a companion to this, their ninth studio album, due out Feb. 15th. The episode below, directed with Jason Thrasher, delves into the band's relationship with the music and mythology of Eddie Hinton -- the obscure soul singer whom Hood described as "if Otis Redding met Howlin' Wolf somewhere in the middle."

"Back in the 60's and 70's, Eddie Hinton lived and recorded in my hometown of Muscle Shoals Alabama where he was a part of the thriving music scene that was based there," Hood explains. "A triple threat (singer, guitar player and songwriter) Eddie participated in hit music by Percy Sledge, Bobby Womack, Aretha Franklin, Boz Scaggs, Dusty Springfield.... Later he made several incredible albums as a solo artist."

Those are the albums you hear through the PA at any Drive-By Truckers show, usually before and after. Hinton was also a troubled soul, having spent time in mental institutions and was at times homeless late in life. "He passed away in 1995 and has since amassed a small but devoted cult following that includes the members of our band."



"We ended up recording a couple of his songs for a tribute single series (from Shake It Records of Cincinnati) during the recording of this album and were so happy with the results we ended up using them on our new album," Hood said. "The recording of 'Everybody Needs Love' and 'Where's Eddie' actually changed the shape of the album we were making and became the impetus for the writing of several new songs for the project." In those nine studio albums the band has never included a cover song before now, using two of their favorite Eddie Hinton songs on "Go-Go Boots."

The same day "Go-Go Boots" comes out on ATO Records the band will also release Barr Weismann's Drive-By Truckers documentary "The Secret To A Happy Ending." The Washington Post said the film "captures the singular blend of grit, sensitivity, stamina and acute songwriting that have led admirers to compare them to Neil Young, William Faulkner, the Replacements and Robert Penn Warren."

Weismann spent several years filming the band living and working, from touring to Thanksgiving, chronicling a period of upheaval in the band's collective history. Far from wary of such an intimate look into his life and band, Hood is full of praise, "The resulting film isn't a typical movie about a band as much as it's a life affirming love letter to the salvation in doing what you love at all costs."

"The Secret To A Happy Ending" screens at the IFC center in NY Feb. 3rd, check here for more listings.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids

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Posted 20 January 2011 - 10:44 AM

Full length version of Shonna playing the Donnie Fritts/Eddie Hinton co-write "Where's Eddie?"


"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
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Posted 24 January 2011 - 02:11 PM


"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 09:09 AM


"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 09:34 AM

Former member Jason Isbell sits in with the Drive-By Truckers in Huntsville, AL

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(l-r) Patterson Hood, Jason Isbell & Mike Cooley

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Thursday, January 27 2011

You can listen to a stream of the show here.

Birthday Boy
Go-Go Boots
Where The Devil Don't Stay
Puttin' People on the Moon
Cartoon Gold
Box of Spiders
Pulaski
Mercy Buckets
Marry Me
Boys From Alabama
Three Dimes Down
Play It All Night Long
Get Downtown
It's Gonna Be (I Told You So)
Drag The Lake Charlie
Self Destructive Zones
Sinkhole
Uncle Frank
Hell No, I Ain't Happy (dedicated to Jason from Patterson)

Encore
Heathens*
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
Used To Be A Cop
Zip City
Let There Be Rock*
Buttholeville> State Trooper> Buttholeville*
People Who Died*

* with Jason Isbell on guitar and backing vocals
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids

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Posted 28 January 2011 - 10:36 PM


"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids

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Posted 29 January 2011 - 12:17 AM

Third Man Records is happy to announce the latest in our live show and live LP series, Drive-By Truckers.
In anticipation for their upcoming album, “Go-Go Boots” (out Feb 15th on ATO) and following up from their sold out show at The Cannery Ballroom, the Truckers will be performing a special matinee all ages show here at Third Man Records on this Sunday Jan. 30th that will be recorded direct to analog tape for release as a live LP (and a limited Black & Blue split colored LP for those in attendance).

“Go-Go Boots” diverts a bit from the Truckers rock & roll sound and builds on their roots with a Muscle Shoals country-and-soul sound. Tapping into their Southern roots this album celebrates their soul heritage that was born out of Muscle Shoals studio where Patterson Hood’s father David Hood was a regular contributor. For this special show at TMR, the Truckers will be joined by David Hood on stage and the show will be a celebration of Southern soul featuring tracks from the new album and some special covers.

Tickets are on sale now through the Third Man Records web store at $15 a piece, and available in the Third Man retail shop here in Nashville.
Jan. 30th
Doors at 4, Drive By Truckers at 5pm
All ages
$15

Black & Blue split colored LPs of the performance will be available for purchase for attendees after the show and for three days after. Save your ticket! LPs will be available for collection within a month and you will be notified via the Third Man newsletter.
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Posted 03 February 2011 - 05:20 PM

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Here's the trailer to The Secret To A Happy Ending: A Documentary About The Drive-By Truckers. It's still being shown at various screenings around the U.S. and will be available on DVD on February 15th (the same day Go-Go Boots comes out). I attended the premiere of the film at the National theatre in Richmond, VA last year but what I saw there was still a work in progress, I look forward to seeing the finished film on the 15th. It's highly recommended to not only fans of the Truckers but to fans of rock n' roll in general.


"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
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