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When Patterson Hood lets his bandmates write songs on the first disc, you can take a piss break, but Mike Cooley and Rob Malone both contribute winners on the second--about alcoholism and Cassie Gaines easing her brother into Lynyrd Skynyrd, respectively.
Themes of alienation, regrettable actions, dead-end living, and self-loathing are prevalent in this album, yet the songwriting trio of guitarists/vocalists Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, and Rob Malone demonstrate a sort of duality in opposition to such stark themes and avoid turning a bitter album into one that is bittersweet and enthralling.
Nov 17, 2021 · The 12-song LP features guitarists Rob Aldridge and Rob Malone (formerly of Drive-By Truckers), drummer Nick Recio and bassist Stone Anderson. Sadly, Anderson died in April 2021 at age 27 from an ...
Sep 10, 2021 · Although based in Athens, Georgia, Drive-By Truckers — which at that point consisted of Hood plus Mike Cooley, Earl Hicks, Rob Malone, and Brad Morgan — returned to Hood and Cooley’s native ...
The Truckers recorded two studio albums and one live album during the four years between their formation and the actual recording of Southern Rock Opera. During these years, Drive-By's principal songwriters Hood, Mike Cooley, and Rob Malone continued to contribute songs to "The Rock Opera", as they had come to call it.
Southern Rock Opera is the third studio album by the American rock band Drive-By Truckers, released in 2001. Originally released as a double album covering an ambitious range of subject matter from the politics of race to 1970s stadium rock, Southern Rock Opera either imagines, or filters, every topic through the context of legendary Southern ...
Without fussing over bridges and such, they treat their job like a calling--verses are packed with stories they need to tell and choruses ring out with why. The intensity wanes as they mull two suicides and several busted marriages, at least until a hard-rocking dirge about a feud brings the title into focus.
