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- As for the intent behind the name Drive-By Truckers, Hood simply states that it arose as a joke that came out of a few cases of cheap beer at the band’s first recording session back in 1996. Our name had an irreverence that befit our style and sense of humor.
The album, as Patterson told me in our conversation, sounds “as Drive-By Truckers as the Drive-By Truckers can sound.” But its subject matter is sharper, its point of view more resolute, and its lyrics more relevant to the moment than any previous DBT album.
Nov 15, 2018 · Patterson Hood has learned not to question inspiration, even when his muse takes the Drive-By Truckers into uncomfortable places. And, now more than ever, it does.
Patterson Hood co-founded his band, The Drive-By Truckers, in the mid-'90s. Some 24 years later and just a little wiser, he revisits that decision.
Recently, Hood composed the bulk of The Unraveling, the 12th studio album by his band, Drive-By Truckers. He also wrote what he expects to become his next solo record, which would be his...
Nov 2, 2020 · Whether he’s chatting on the phone or singing on a Truckers record, Hood minces no words about his feelings toward President Trump and his last four years in the White House.
Feb 27, 2020 · Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley on their new The Unraveling, and running into Mick Jagger while recording it at the late Sam Phillips' legendary Memphis studio. On the rough-and-tumble streets of Memphis, it's said good omens are hard to come by.
Patterson Hood and the band he fronts, The Drive-by Truckers, are a study in contradiction. Since their start, this Georgia-based band has embraced the “Southern duality” that has commonly defined their sound.
