Artist.......: Drive-By Truckers
Album........: Live de la Semaine
Label........: Pias
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2010-07-01
Str.date.....: 2010-05-14
Quality......: 177kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://drivebytruckers.com/
track title time
1. StΘphane Saunier - Intro 1:19
2. Drive-By Truckers - Drag The Lake Charlie 4:10
3. Drive-By Truckers - Birthday Boy 3:38
4. Drive-By Truckers - The Fourth Night Of My 4:29
Drinking
5. Drive-By Truckers - Get Downtown 3:31
6. Drive-By Truckers - (It's Gonna Be) I Told 2:08
You So
7. Drive-By Truckers - The Flying Wallendas 5:38
8. Drive-By Truckers - Daddy Learned To Fly 5:20
9. StΘphane Saunier - Ending 0:21
Runtime 30:34
Size 38.79
Release Notes:
Flaunting a mix of Southern pride, erudite lyrics, and a
muscled three-guitar attack, Drive-By Truckers became one
of the most well-respected alternative country-rock acts
of the 2000s. Led by frontman Patterson Hood and
comprising a rotating cast of Georgia and Alabama natives,
the band celebrated the South while refusing to paint over
its spotty past. History, folklore, politics, and
character studies all shared equal space in the Truckers
catalog, which offered up its first blast of gutsy, twangy
rock with 1998's Gangstabilly. However, it was the band's
ambitious double-disc concept album, The Southern Rock
Opera, that became their unlikely magnum opus. A two-act
affair, the album explored Patterson Hood's fascination
with 1970s Southern rock (specifically Lynyrd Skynyrd)
while tackling the cultural contradictions of the region.
In 1985, college friends Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood
(whose father, David Hood, was a Muscle Shoals session
player whose bass can be heard on the Staple Singers'
"I'll Take You There") formed a punk-inspired band named
Adam's House Cat. The group disbanded six years later, and
Cooley and Hood launched several follow-up projects before
moving to different cities. They eventually reconvened in
Athens, GA, where the duo formed Drive-By Truckers in
1996. Gangstabilly announced the band's official debut in
1998, while Pizza Deliverance saw Mike Cooley emerging as
a competent songwriter. (The sonic contrast between Cooley
and Hood's songs, as well as those compositions written by
members Rob Malone, Shonna Tucker, and Jason Isbell, would
soon prove to be one of the Truckers' strongest assets.)
In 2000, the band documented its strength as a live act
with Alabama Ass Whuppin', a concert recording taken from
a show in Athens.
The vision for Drive-By Truckers' heralded rock opera took
shape as Hood began to deeply address his own Southern
roots. Recorded during a September heat wave in
Birmingham, AL -- and boasting the band's three-guitar
attack (α la Skynyrd) -- the album veered from nervy,
powerful rock & roll to a bruised, jagged tone that
recalled Neil Young & Crazy Horse. It was also an
underground success, receiving a four-star rating from
Rolling Stone and catching the ear of roots rock label
Lost Highway, which reissued the album in 2002.
Unfortunately for the label, many people who would have
otherwise purchased the album already owned a copy;
unfortunately for the Truckers, they were released from
their contract just as their first album for Lost Highway
was finished. After several months of between-label limbo,
the band was picked up by New West Records, a Texas-based
label that released Decoration Day in mid-2003. The album
featured several songs by newcomer Jason Isbell, a young
singer/guitarist who had replaced Rob Malone two years
prior.
Touring and further lineup changes followed the album's
release, with bassist Earl Hicks departing and studio
musician Shonna Tucker (who was also Isbell's wife)
climbing aboard to join Hood, Cooley, Isbell, and drummer
Brad Morgan. The new lineup made its debut on 2004's The
Dirty South, a concept album that spun Southern tales of
small towns, violent sheriffs, and legendary record
producers. A concert DVD, Live at the 40 Watt: August 27 &
28, 2004, arrived in 2005, followed one year later by
Isbell's final album with the group, A Blessing and a
Curse. In light of Isbell's decision to quit the band in
favor of a solo career, pedal steel guitarist John Neff
officially joined in 2007, having contributed to several
Drive-By Truckers albums in the past. Brighter Than
Creation's Dark introduced the revised lineup in 2008;
additionally, it showcased Shonna Tucker's abilities as a
songwriter, marking the first time that any of the
bassist's contributions had appeared on record. Drive-By
Truckers returned to the road that summer to support the
record's release.
Although the band remained on tour well into 2009, the
Truckers also found time to release their second concert
album, Live from Austin TX, as well as a collection of
unreleased material entitled The Fine Print: A Collection
of Oddities and Rarities. Patterson Hood rounded out the
year by issuing his second solo record, Murdering Oscar
(And Other Love Songs), although 2010 found him returning
to the fold for Drive-By Truckers' eighth studio album,
The Big To-Do.