Drive-by Truckers - Brighter than Creation's Dark
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From Patterson :
Y"ALL:
Here goes again.
About to pack for the third (and final) leg of THE DIRT UNDERNEATH.
Boy has this been fun.
Originally supposed to be 2-3 weeks in may.
A chance to kinda reinvent ourselves to ourselves.
Maybe rediscover some old overlooked songs and a way to work the kinks
out of some new ones and road test some ideas before embarking on our next album.
Instead, we basically worked up the meat of our next album in front of a live audience and had so much fun we added another and now another leg.
(Insert favorite three-legged joke here).
As most know, we made new album this summer.
BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK
Title comes from a really good Cooley song called Checkout Time In Vegas.
We had the easiest time making this album, as it just came out as if it was totally meant to be this way.
No debates or even decisions to make, it all just made sense. Everyone shared same vision and it came together like throwing pieces into air and having them land in perfect place.
Then we couldn't find a name for it.
Everyone was so happy with the baby that no name seemed good enough. We wanted 100% agreement (this time) as nothing else had been compromised so why start with title.
I personally believe that it's actually best to start with a title and build from there.
I did this with the name of the band and about half or more of the albums have had title before the songs themselves.
Decoration Day had always been Heathens, but 2 other bands named their albums that that previous summer.
Name one now?
I digress again.
BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK.
It will grow on you. it did me.
In the end, we settled for everyone being OK with it.
It was a majority's first choice, and 1 second choice. The other...
Hopefully it will grow on all.
Of note, Wes Freed loved the title and began drawing ideas based on it before we had even decided.
His artwork looks to be best yet and that did affect the final decision.
David Barbe produced once again.
Oh yeah, and did I mention that there are 19 songs on it.
It's coming out the very beginning of 2008.
We plan to tour our asses off.
But this next few weeks will be the end of THE DIRT UNDERNEATH.
It's been great, but it's served its purposes and we're going to be ready to move on.
The new album certainly has been influenced by some of that approach and some of those aspects will continue, but...
It IS an electric album. It ROCKS (as they say).
See you at the show.
Patterson
Of Note:
SPOONER OLDHAM will again be playing the Wurlitzer on most the TDU shows this month.
We hope to continue playing with him whenever and wherever possible.
Y"ALL:
Here goes again.
About to pack for the third (and final) leg of THE DIRT UNDERNEATH.
Boy has this been fun.
Originally supposed to be 2-3 weeks in may.
A chance to kinda reinvent ourselves to ourselves.
Maybe rediscover some old overlooked songs and a way to work the kinks
out of some new ones and road test some ideas before embarking on our next album.
Instead, we basically worked up the meat of our next album in front of a live audience and had so much fun we added another and now another leg.
(Insert favorite three-legged joke here).
As most know, we made new album this summer.
BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK
Title comes from a really good Cooley song called Checkout Time In Vegas.
We had the easiest time making this album, as it just came out as if it was totally meant to be this way.
No debates or even decisions to make, it all just made sense. Everyone shared same vision and it came together like throwing pieces into air and having them land in perfect place.
Then we couldn't find a name for it.
Everyone was so happy with the baby that no name seemed good enough. We wanted 100% agreement (this time) as nothing else had been compromised so why start with title.
I personally believe that it's actually best to start with a title and build from there.
I did this with the name of the band and about half or more of the albums have had title before the songs themselves.
Decoration Day had always been Heathens, but 2 other bands named their albums that that previous summer.
Name one now?
I digress again.
BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK.
It will grow on you. it did me.
In the end, we settled for everyone being OK with it.
It was a majority's first choice, and 1 second choice. The other...
Hopefully it will grow on all.
Of note, Wes Freed loved the title and began drawing ideas based on it before we had even decided.
His artwork looks to be best yet and that did affect the final decision.
David Barbe produced once again.
Oh yeah, and did I mention that there are 19 songs on it.
It's coming out the very beginning of 2008.
We plan to tour our asses off.
But this next few weeks will be the end of THE DIRT UNDERNEATH.
It's been great, but it's served its purposes and we're going to be ready to move on.
The new album certainly has been influenced by some of that approach and some of those aspects will continue, but...
It IS an electric album. It ROCKS (as they say).
See you at the show.
Patterson
Of Note:
SPOONER OLDHAM will again be playing the Wurlitzer on most the TDU shows this month.
We hope to continue playing with him whenever and wherever possible.
The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit.
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Jason's in St. Louis this November...I'd like to catch his solo show too.
PBM
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here's where you come in. where do i got next? do i attack their catalog chronologically or are they like soundgarden where their early stuff gives you no hint they're about to become your new 2nd favorite band? also, has cooley done anything outside the band? did isbell do anything before? how tame are the shows they don't advertise as rock shows? does the lineup change or is it just electric vs acoustic gear? does the betty lavette album sound dbt enough to bother with? is it at least mirror ball-ish?
please and thanks and such
I feel you on catching on late. I started with DBT about 2 years ago, and I am kicking myself for not getting into them sooner. So much wasted time! So many shows I could have gone to!
Anyway...
The early stuff (Pizza Deliverance & Gangstabilly) is a bit more country, and just not quite as focused as the later material (everything after and including Southern Rock Opera). That said, there are some amazing songs on those records, and there are some I never listen to. They just aren't quite as solid as the later albums. Of the two Pizza Deliverance is particuarly good. And you can definitely hear the beginnings of what would eventually become the Drive-by Truckers we know today. Some of those songs would easily hold up on the new records.
So pretty much listen to whatever you want next, just grab one and put it in. I assure you there will be songs you will love on every one of their records.
Cooley has never done anything else, he is not a terribly prolific songwriter, so pretty much what ends up on the record is what he has written for that time period, not a lot of leftover material (although I hear he is going to have quite a few songs on the new record). It is a shame that he doesn't write more songs, cause his songs are pretty much my favorite DBT songs.
Nothing Isbell has done pre-Truckers has been released, or even exists that I am aware of.
The "acoustic" shows are fantastic. You don't even really feel like they are playing "unplugged." Honestly, I think they are just as good acoustic as they are electric, it is just different. If you get a chance to go on this last leg, do it. The only difference in lineup is legendary keyboardist Spooner Oldham plays with them on a lot of the acoustic shows.
The Betty Lavette thing is ok, if you can dig soul music, then check it out, but it is her album first and foremost, you can kind of tell DBT is there if you know their sound, but it isn't really like a Mirrorball kind of thing.
I think that covers it...
Love the album title, nice dark southern gothic sound to it. Hopefully they'll hit southern california on the tour as they skipped us on the TDU shows... (I know, other bands don't play the south).
And as far as the early albums go, I love Gangstabilly. It's a little raw, but it has Panties in Your Purse, 18 Wheels of Love, Steve McQueen, Buttholeville, and Living Bubba, all classic DBT tracks.
http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
spotify:user:merkinball
deadmosquito, i can't recommend one show from another yet, but here's 247 to choose from. http://www.archive.org/browse.php?field=/metadata/bandWithMP3s&collection=etree
From your post I can say two things:
1. Buy The Dirty South CD.
2. Buy The Live At The 40 Watt DVD.
that's about all your missing apart from Gangstabilly but you need those two above first, also check out some live boots on archieve.org there's loads and they're awesome.:)
Should be an awesome start to the new year a new Truckers album, yay.:D
And may I also say, come to the UK.:D
I concur.
I first heard Goddamn Lonely Love and it really got me interested in DBT.
It's a toss up between Dirty South and Decoration Day for me.
PBM
Wishlist Foundation: http://wishlistfoundation.org
That's some good news!
Cannot wait to see them next week (and Jason next month). Yeah!
Bulldozers and Dirt as the opener
Women w/o Whiskey
Carl Perkins' Cadillac
Nine Bullets
One of these Days
Tales Facing Up
The Living Bubba
Zip City
Guitar Man Upstairs
Panties in Your Purse
18 Wheels of Love (w/Patterson's mother in the house)
Birmingham (1st for us to see that one live)
Checkout Time in Vegas
Lisa's Birthday?? (a new Cooley song)
Sink Hole
My Sweet Annette
Heathens
Puttin' People on the Moon
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Buttholeville (closer) with Patterson's guitar tech playing the Gibson and Patterson running around the stage with the mic in hand......second show in a row that we have seen them close the show like that. (They closed the "rock" show at Birmingham-Southern College like that.)
There was also a wedding ceremony on stage about ten minutes before the show started. Thursday was Cooley's 10th Wedding Anniversary, and they had always planned to go to Vegas and get re-married by "Elvis" on that date. However Mrs. Cooley is quite with child and can't fly, so they had a "fat" (and balding) Elvis do the honors last night in B'ham.
Simply one of the greatest shows that I have ever witnessed. Neff is killer on both the steel and the six-string.
However, I'm still 0 for "72" :(
No Jason songs.
5 shows for me, and I still haven't heard that song, or "Where the Devil Won't Stay." I think I am going to have to hit a few shows in a row next tour, to remedy this problem.
Also, I heard that Patterson said something last night about having the New Years Eve show in Birmingham this year.
I might just have to make the journey if this is the case....
http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
spotify:user:merkinball
Was playing a recent show over on Archive.org and am really digging the new Cooley tunes. Ghost To The Most, Rock And Roll Never Forgets, and Self Destructive Zones kick a ton of ass, as Cooley's tunes tend to do.
Of course! This goes without saying.:)
Sorry about 72...I still remember thinking about you at the Memphis show last October when they played it.
Did Patterson say anything unusual about Wheels before they played it?
PBM
Wishlist Foundation: http://wishlistfoundation.org
I got Steven McQueen once. Only I don't remember it. They played for like 3 hours that night, and the last half of that show is a little blury... the last 2 things I remember are Play it all night long and People who died... But like a year later, one of my friends said something about them playing it, and I started arguing with them that they hadn't. But apparently they did, I just had a few too many beers.
08/02/07 - LOLLA!!!