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It’s one of our most absolutely successful records.” We kind of put that record out thinking that we were probably going to be selling half as many records and half as many tickets and that didn’t happen at all. In the lead-up of American Band coming out, there was so much nastiness directed at us online. That ‘Slow Ride’ song is a little different. You just listen to the hook or the guitar riff and thought, ‘This is like Foghat’ but not quite. Some people couldn’t believe we’d done this, but we’d been doing this kind of thing all along, you just really haven’t been paying attention. I was kind of taken aback when people were outraged by American Band. “I think we’ve always been political,” Hood said. But it’s not something Hood concerns himself with, particularly given the fact that he and bandmate Mike Cooley have been stirring the pot with political fare dating back to Cooley’s ‘Uncle Frank’ from 1999’s Pizza Delivery. With the current state of the world, where musicians that voice their views through their art often get pilloried for not staying in their lane and singing about more generic and benign topics, DBT have been subjected to that kind of scorn from conservative fans. We thought it was important for people that look like us to speak out about these things.” As a band that’s kind of known for our southerness, and we’re obviously a bunch of these white, southern, middle-aged dudes, we kind of fall into the stereotypical Trump demographic.
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We didn’t honestly intend to tour behind it for three and half years. When we made American Band, we looked at it as its own freestanding thing we were going to do and then we were probably going to move on and do something else. But that’s kind of what ended up happening. “It’s not like we sat down and said we were going to write a trilogy of records bitching about the current situation in our country. “I think we ended up with an unintended trilogy of records, not to put a pretentious slant on it,” Hood explained.
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Hood’s response came as a result of noticing hip-hop and pop artists were the only ones addressing these issues with their art versus “…so-called rock and roll kind of pretending none of these things were happening.” The December follow-up, The New OK, was inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests the Portland-based Hood was experiencing on a first-hand basis. The first, The Unraveling, was released in January and dealt with issues ranging from gun violence (the rollicking “Thoughts and Prayers”) and the Trump administration family separation policy (a dark and dirgey “Babies in Cages”). And while the band spent that downtime playing virtual shows, getting some PPP (Payment Protection Program) money and relying on the kindness of hardcore fans buying their music from online site Bandcamp on a monthly basis, DBT also released a pair of albums in 2020 that formed an organic trilogy with American Band. We looked at it as its own freestanding thing we were going to do and then we were probably going to move on and do something else” found the tour for it expanding from months to years.įast forward to 2021 and Hood and the rest of DBT are getting ready to hit the road again having spent the past year and a half sidelined from their usual breakneck touring schedule. The unexpected response to a collection of songs that founding member Patterson Hood said “…was put out before the election and was a statement about what we saw happening and what became Black Lives Matter. Drive-By Truckers from left: Brad Morgan, Jay Gonzalez, Matt Patton, Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley While the Athens outfit has long been political with their releases dating back to 2000’s sprawling double-album concept album Southern Rock Opera, DBT has kicked into overdrive in the past five years since they released 2016’s politically charged American Band.
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If ever there was a musical prism through which the divisive social and political events of the past five years could be viewed from a progressive perspective, the soundtrack would undoubtedly be provided by Drive-By Truckers (DBT).