Drive-By Truckers are marking the upcoming 2024 presidential election with an expanded new edition of their landmark 2016 album, American Band, arriving via ATO Records on Friday, November 1. The ...

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 ...

Drive-By Truckers will reunite with their former bandmate Jason Isbell for a performance on The Late Show next month. The group is currently promoting The Definitive Decoration Day, a reissue of its ...

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," ...

For years before it was released in 2001, the Drive-By Truckers’ high-concept album “Southern Rock Opera” existed only as a topic of conversation and consternation as the band worked the concert ...

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 ...

Patterson Hood and his band Drive-By Truckers are usually forward looking — the reason there’s been 14 studio albums since 1998. But the Georgia-formed quintet is indulging in a bit of nostalgia this ...

The Drive-By Truckers, a rock band with roots in north Alabama and Athens, Ga., are on tour. The Truckers original members, including Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, are from the Shoals area and met ...

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 ...

Drive-By Truckers‘ founder and core lyricist Patterson Hood admits that the band has never been super good with names. And it didn’t start with the stage name Drive-By Truckers, which Hood now refers ...

In their repertoire, southern rockers the Drive-By Truckers have songs about all sorts of natural disasters: floods, tornadoes, sinkholes, thunderstorms, bachelor parties. Co-founding singer/guitarist ...

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, ...