Drive-By Truckers

New Music Tuesday: Drive By Truckers

Tuesday, the newest release from Drive by Truckers, Go-Go Boots hit the proverbial shelves. This record is the second release containing songs the band finished in 2009. Instead of releasing one epic album as they have been known to do, DBT opted to release The Big To-Do first in 2010 and pack it full of the epic rock songs they had written. DBT’s Patterson Hood told Spinner, ”We wanted a pretty wham-bam record to come out with, and also I figured by doing that we would pave the way for this weirder, kind of more R&B and country-based, country-soul record we were working on.” What’s left is a collection of those “weirder, kind of more R&B and country-based” songs about murderous Priests, family holiday fights, and a cop stalking his ex-wife. Says Hood, “It's funny -- as it turns out, there's been more excitement about this record than maybe anything we've done since The Dirty South and Decoration Day. When we were in the studio we kind of viewed this as the one that's going to be the tough sell…We've probably gotten more radio support already for a seven-and-a-half minute-minute song about a cop stalking his ex-wife than we've had for any song in our history.“ You can listen to samples and pick up the album here. -Erin O.