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And we're back with a check in with songwriter, bandleader, and longtime Aquarium Drunkard supporter Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers. Earlier this year, the Truckers released their 12th lp, The Unraveling, a righteously pissed off record about gun violence, white supremacy, and the possibility of reincarnation. We rang up Hood to talk about quarantining in Portland, Oregon, the ins and outs of modern America, the new Bob Dylan song, and his early, formative experience seeing the great John Martyn. The post Transmissions :: A Conversation With Patterson Hood first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.

(In October of 2008 we flipped the script on our Sevens column with Politiko , focusing solely on political songs until the general election. It’s now 2016…and we’re back.) "It all started at the border / and [...] The post Sevens (Politiko) :: Drive-by Truckers – Ramon Casiano first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.

There are certain musical landmarks often brought up in conjunction with Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, R.E.M. But on the road to the Truckers’ [...] The post Catching Up With Drive-By Truckers :: The AD Interview (Hood/Cooley) first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.

( Diversions , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) One cannot overstate the power of regionalism. Growing up in Georgia, [...] The post Patterson Hood :: Eddie Hinton’s Mighty Field of Vision first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.

Nine studio albums and a decade and a half into their career, the Drive-By Truckers have created their own mythology; a mythology that is at once self-contained yet continually feeding off the external world. Some might call [...] The post Drive-By Truckers :: Go-Go Boots first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.

As the Drive-By Truckers release their eighth album, it's interesting to see them, lyrically and somewhat musically, creating an album that echoes their earliest records. The Big To-Do is the most distinctly southern album they've recorded since The post Drive-By Truckers :: The Big To-Do first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.

What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of a new decade, we’re in [...] The post Decade :: Drive-By Truckers, The Dirty South (2004) first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.

Context is everything. And sometimes it's the mere shift of geography, the slighter or greater roar of the narrator that can make the biggest difference in a song. Jim Carroll's "People Who Died" is a legendary song [...] The post Under The Covers :: People Who Died first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.

Never one to shy away from Drive-By Truckers related news, here is a heads up for all you DBT fans that have yet to check out this new PASTE magazine feature published online a few days ago. Sounds [...] The post Drive-By Truckers Talk Two New Albums… first appeared on Aquarium Drunkard.