In 2001, the Drive-By Truckers released their third studio album, “Southern Rock Opera.” It was a dream conceived by members of the band before they even officially formed, back in 1998; a kind of ...

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As author of 2021 book “Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers,” Bloomington-based music journalist Stephen Deusner knows the band’s 2001 breakthrough recording, ...

Sitting near the center of “Southern Rock Opera,” the double-album breakthrough that placed Drive-By Truckers on the rock ‘n’ roll map, are a pair of Patterson Hood songs that speak directly to the ...

The Drive-By Truckers (l to r): Patterson Hood, Brad Morgan, Mike Cooley, Matt Patton (not pictured: Jay Gonzalez) Credit: Photo by Violeta Alvarez In their repertoire, southern rockers the Drive-By ...

“The Pool House” was originally inspired by a night I spent at a creepy rental,” says Hood. “A literal pool house for an apartment complex that I rented cheap for the night during a solo tour. It was ...

In their 20 years as a band, the Drive-By Truckers have been no strangers political music. This is the Alabama-bred, Georgia-based rock outfit that once wrote a song about segregationist George ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “We have always remained friends with Jason, and honestly he and I are closer now than ever,” Patterson Hood said in a statement. ...

It's been three years since "Welcome 2 Club XIII" dropped, so the Drive-By Truckers must be due for a new album. Considering the content of 2001's "Southern Rock Opera" and 2016's "American Band," ...

If you look up the word multi-tasker in the dictionary, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to find Patterson Hood’s picture smiling back at you. The Drive-By Truckers’ (DBT) founding member not only ...

Even in its '70s prime, Southern rock had a hint of redneck self-parody. The members of Alabama's Drive by Truckers obviously spent a large part of their youth listening to albums such as "Street ...