Show #152: Drive By Truckers

February 4th, 2008

This week’s show goes out to Arch Stanton. He’s a big fan of Drive By Truckers and I’ve finally gone out and acquired one of their shows.

With the band hailing from Athens, Georgia with some members from Northern Alabama and having a triple guitar attack, it’s difficult not to make comparisons to Lynyrd Skynyrd. But that certainly isn’t the whole story. Taking into consideration that this recording is my first taste of the band, I’d say that you’d have to throw in the Southern gothic of 16 Horsepower as well. Add to this a prediliction for concept albums and you’ve got Drive By Truckers. More or less. Kinda sorta. Lisen for yourself.

(Photo from Kiki’s Magical Music Reviews.)

This is a really nice soundboard recorded on 29 July 2004. The scene was the Visulite Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Setlist:

Where The Devil Don’t Stay
Sinkhole
Decoration Day
(Something’s Got to) Give Pretty Soon
Careless
Sounds Better In The Song
Daddy’s Cup
Lookout Mountain
Goddamn Lonely Love
The Day John Henry Died
Sweet Annette
Demonic Possession

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Drive By Truckers

Here a clip from about a month later in their hometown doing “Where the Devil Don’t Stay”.

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