Drive-By Truckers ~ The Big To-Do

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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    That is a cool blog. I'll have to check out the new songs.

    I was actually at the J Mascis show that guy has posted :)
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  • intodeep wrote:
    That is a cool blog. I'll have to check out the new songs.

    I was actually at the J Mascis show that guy has posted :)
    Yeah it is a cool one. I check it from time to time and have found some pretty cool bands on there I didn't know of before. I like Bloodkin.

    I've listened to the 16th show and just starting on the one from the 15th....audio is pretty good. New songs sound great...can't wait. Love this band
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    http://southernshelter.com/

    Check this out, just scroll down a ways and you will find three shows from 1/14-16 at the 40 Watt. They play a bunch of the new songs....possibly all of them including "Girls Who Smoke" which will be a bonus track on the vinyl of the new album
    "Girls Who Smoke" was one of the new songs that they played at the show this past Saturday....dandy little tune. :twisted:
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • tybird wrote:
    http://southernshelter.com/

    Check this out, just scroll down a ways and you will find three shows from 1/14-16 at the 40 Watt. They play a bunch of the new songs....possibly all of them including "Girls Who Smoke" which will be a bonus track on the vinyl of the new album
    "Girls Who Smoke" was one of the new songs that they played at the show this past Saturday....dandy little tune. :twisted:
    I'm loving that one along with Daddy Learned to Fly and When the Scene Dies in particular. Birthday Boy is also great...
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

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    well, shoot, i think i will head over to the store to pick it up tonight.
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  • tybird...in case you haven't gotten it yet...you might want to head here....

    http://ninebullets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8497
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    New interview with Patterson:

    http://www.billboard.com/#/features/q-a ... 5039.story

    best line of the interview:

    Q: Why do you think Drive-By Truckers aren't a bigger band?

    A: I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with that [Southern rock] label. Sometimes the thing that first gives you that leg up is the foot that ends up kicking you in the nuts.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    merkinball wrote:
    New interview with Patterson:

    http://www.billboard.com/#/features/q-a ... 5039.story

    best line of the interview:

    Q: Why do you think Drive-By Truckers aren't a bigger band?

    A: I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with that [Southern rock] label. Sometimes the thing that first gives you that leg up is the foot that ends up kicking you in the nuts.
    Patterson does have a point about the label, but I believe part of this situation is the fact that the band is all over the place musically.....thus the Cox Communications and Clear Channels of the world don't know what to do with them......they can't be pigeon-holed into a certain category or target audience, thus they don't get played on the radio.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    tybird...in case you haven't gotten it yet...you might want to head here....

    http://ninebullets.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8497
    Thank you, kindly......
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    tybird wrote:
    Patterson does have a point about the label, but I believe part of this situation is the fact that the band is all over the place musically.....thus the Cox Communications and Clear Channels of the world don't know what to do with them......they can't be pigeon-holed into a certain category or target audience, thus they don't get played on the radio.

    Absolutely. There' s a radio station out here (that's independent, not a cox/clear channel station) that has played a ton of Hold Steady and Dead Confederate. Both bands that have toured with the DBT, yet the station stil won't play any DBT regardless of my requests. I figure it's that they won't even give them a listen because of the label.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • Speaking of...what's the Big To Do with DBT? I don't get the fascination. Is it because they're rednecks. Is it the accent? I've tried to like them but I haven't found anything to convert me. They seem pretty cool from the interviews I've seen. The music doesn't tickle my sweet and lovelies.
  • Yellow LedbellyYellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    edited February 2010
    Speaking of...what's the Big To Do with DBT? I don't get the fascination. Is it because they're rednecks. Is it the accent? I've tried to like them but I haven't found anything to convert me. They seem pretty cool from the interviews I've seen. The music doesn't tickle my sweet and lovelies.
    Well if you've listened and haven't gotten anything out of it except them being rednecks and having some sorta accent...I'm guessing you just don't get.

    I don't like Radiohead.
    Don't like Neil Young.
    Don't get the Flaming Lips.
    Lots of folks do.

    For me the fascination is that they write songs about real people/life and make some bad ass music. Simple as that.
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    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    Speaking of...what's the Big To Do with DBT? I don't get the fascination. Is it because they're rednecks. Is it the accent? I've tried to like them but I haven't found anything to convert me. They seem pretty cool from the interviews I've seen. The music doesn't tickle my sweet and lovelies.
    Where The Devil Don't Stay

    That song just flat out rocks. I like a lot of other ones but that one just kills it. I love the guitar stomp.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Speaking of...what's the Big To Do with DBT? I don't get the fascination. Is it because they're rednecks. Is it the accent? I've tried to like them but I haven't found anything to convert me. They seem pretty cool from the interviews I've seen. The music doesn't tickle my sweet and lovelies.
    It's the "The Big To-Do"...as in the title of the forthcoming album.. :twisted: Accents??? I have not noticed that they have accents......they sound just like most of the folks around here. :mrgreen:
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • I know that. It was a play on words with the big to do.

    Ahh well. I'm not here to bash them. I'm just not a fan but I think it's something that might could grow on me but I'm not a huge fan of Southern rock anyway.
  • spnoonespnoone Posts: 630
    cooley's releasing something on record store day as stroker ace. won't say what, but it sounds like a single. the quote i read said something like "you'd think i was fucking with you if i tried to describe it. it's not an full album or even an ep. all i can tell you is it's high art." and neff plays sitar on it.

    and isbell (and tom waits, steve earle, etc) has a new song on the preservation hall benefit album that came out tuesday.

    and the big to-do just will not fucking leak and it's pissin me off.
  • I know that. It was a play on words with the big to do.

    Ahh well. I'm not here to bash them. I'm just not a fan but I think it's something that might could grow on me but I'm not a huge fan of Southern rock anyway.

    hmmm "southern rock"...is that just like RnR but with a bunch of more loud geetars in it. i just don't get the term southern rock, just like i dont get grunge. oh poor me...

    pay the $25, go see that band live, cause if u r a pearl jam fan then you already know the diff between hearing a band on record vs seeing them live.

    and/or if u havent seen the live at the 40watt dvd then you for sure havent given them the chance they deserve. that dvd will rock yer socks off
  • crowes74crowes74 Posts: 273
    you should never miss a DBT show. fantastic live band, with 2 great songwriters.
    songs of the real world.
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    crowes74 wrote:
    you should never miss a DBT show. fantastic live band, with 2 great songwriters.
    songs of the real world.


    Would love the opportunity! Their live @ ACL album is the shit, and the DVD with it is awesome too. True that their songs are of real world troubles. I love it. "Puttin' People On The Moon" is a fantastic tune.
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  • dcfaithful wrote:
    crowes74 wrote:
    you should never miss a DBT show. fantastic live band, with 2 great songwriters.
    songs of the real world.


    Would love the opportunity! Their live @ ACL album is the shit, and the DVD with it is awesome too. True that their songs are of real world troubles. I love it. "Puttin' People On The Moon" is a fantastic tune.
    I had the pleasure of seeing them at Bonnaroo 2008 having just "discovered" them three or four months earlier. Luckily I crammed all I could into that time and was familiar with all their stuff before bonnaroo. God they are so great live. I remember standing out there at 2 o'clock that friday afternoon tight as a tick and having a tear in my eye when they did "18 Wheels of Love." I actually think the ACL performance was to be the last time they did "18 Wheels" with the story about his momma and Chester.
    You definitely need to check out live at the 40Watt dvd....you'll be hooked. I got in late late last saturday night, shitty drunk, threw that dvd in and cranked it up....they kick so much ass
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    dcfaithful wrote:
    crowes74 wrote:
    you should never miss a DBT show. fantastic live band, with 2 great songwriters.
    songs of the real world.


    Would love the opportunity! Their live @ ACL album is the shit, and the DVD with it is awesome too. True that their songs are of real world troubles. I love it. "Puttin' People On The Moon" is a fantastic tune.

    Puttin People on the Moon is a great live tune. They really drag it out. Nothing like singing along to "And all them politicians, they all lyin' sacks of shit. They say better days upon us but I'm sucking left hind tit"


    This show:

    http://www.archive.org/details/dbt2010- ... 23-dpa4028

    Has quite a few of the new tunes on it. And a kick-ass cover of Strutter. They also played 18 wheels for Pattersons sister.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    merkinball wrote:

    Puttin People on the Moon is a great live tune. They really drag it out. Nothing like singing along to "And all them politicians, they all lyin' sacks of shit. They say better days upon us but I'm sucking left hind tit"


    This show:

    http://www.archive.org/details/dbt2010- ... 23-dpa4028

    Has quite a few of the new tunes on it. And a kick-ass cover of Strutter. They also played 18 wheels for Pattersons sister.
    Have not listened to the recording of the show yet, but the audio-only could not capture the full effect of "You and your Crystal Meth" as performed that evening....it was beyond moving....amazing does not even begin to describe its impact.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • dbt are one of my favorite bands
  • Red LukinRed Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    leaky leak ;)
  • So far just OK, but solid. Maybe putting out two albums from one studio session was a bit ambitious ...... it might grow on me during the week so I`m not giving up on it.
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    So far just OK, but solid. Maybe putting out two albums from one studio session was a bit ambitious ...... it might grow on me during the week so I`m not giving up on it.

    Sounds like they were trying to out-do the reigning kings of rock n' roll and southern rock since their take on this experiment proved successful. ;)The Black Crowes

    Don't want to listen to the leak, I'll wait for the 16th to roll around. Can't wait to blast that shit with my windows down cruisin' on the interstate.
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  • I like it a lot which I knew I would but I think this is Patterson's weakest effort on an album. Well, that may not be true, because I haven't studied the lyrics of course but the arrangements on his songs aren't very good so maybe its not entirely his fault. I like Santa Fe a lot though
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,272
    Red Lukin wrote:
    leaky leak ;)


    i can wait

    it's not like i dont have a pile of unspun tunes already to go...
  • Red LukinRed Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    I think it's a grower. I was a bit disappointed at first, but it's sounding better and better now. Really digging after the scene dies..great tune and great timing..love that laid back sound, with the guitars coming in..sooo good.

    Can't wait to hear a non-mp3 version and read the lyrics.
  • PissBottleManPissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,154
    Red Lukin wrote:
    read the lyrics.

    I like Patterson's write up's...I hope he does that for this album.

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