DBT Half Week in Review - 12/21/07

Pre-order the new album Brighter Than Creations Dark from the official Drive-By Truckers store for your chance to be entered in a drawing for one of 2 grand prizes to include a signed poster, a gift certificate for $100 of merchandise from the official Drive-By Truckers store and 2 tickets to an upcoming headlining Drive-By Truckers show of your choice. In addition, the first 100 people to purchase the Brighter Than Creations Dark CD & T-shirt bundle will ALSO receive a signed tour poster from the Drive-By Truckers.

Contest begins December 20, 2007 and ends January 22, 2008. To guarantee deliver on the release date, domestic customers must select the express shipping option and place their orders by 3 PM on January 18. All pre-orders taken by this time will ship that Friday. The release date delivery option is not available for international customers. Orders that ship by the standard shipping method will take between 3-5 business days to arrive.

Remember, only the first 100 people who order the Brighter Than Creations Dark CD & T-shirt bundle will receive a signed poster, so hurry up and order yours today!

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A few odds and ends today as we gear up for the Holidays:

dbts : Message: [BT/MP3] Party for Adam & Wendy Musick (Southern Bitch, w/ members of DBT et al):

"'Athens music is losing some good ones: Adam & Wendy Musick of
Southern Bitch are moving away any day now, taking over their family's
farm in Virginia. Kimberly and Brad Morgan (of The Everloving Band and
Drive-By Truckers respectively) had a few musician friends over to
play songs as a farewell, and record it for a keepsake. We thought
some fans might enjoy it too.

Chuck Bradburn (Southern Bitch), Brad Morgan, Wendy Musick and John C.
Stubblefield (Lucero) perform along with the lead singers listed above.'

MP3: http://southernshelter.com/2007/12/musick-party-morgans-121407.html
FLAC: http://digitalpanic.org/bittorrent/showthread.php?t=18721"

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Some nice pics of Bettye in concert:

NineBullets.org - a DBT fansite :: View topic - The Scene of the Crime...GRAMMY NOMINATION!!!!

Betty on NPR:

NPR Music: Bettye LaVette Is the Comeback Queen

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The Wydelles newish website.

The Wydelles

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Jenn likes funny words:

Ferfberger � Pointy Pointy:

"It’s funny-made-up-word Tuesday! I love words that are FUN to say. You know, words with ZAZ. (By the way we went to see Dethklok the other night and that shit ROCKED! Moreonthatlater) As I was saying, ZAZZY words"

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Molded by rock:

"More than 20 years later, there's very little that I don't remember about my first rock concert - Van Halen on the '5150' tour at the Cow Palace in Daly City. I was 15 years old, and drank cans of Budweiser in the parking lot while listening to 'Led Zeppelin II' on the stereo in my friend's two-toned beige and brown Dodge conversion van. Some older dude with a black beard walked up and said, 'I'm going to have to give you a citation ... for not partying hard enough!' I was so relieved that he wasn't going to send us to jail, I paid him $10 for a bumper sticker."

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Slash On Stealing His First Top Hat, Becoming Fashion Sensation:

"The first sign of a true rock star? When a man named Saul Hudson changes his name to Slash... and it sticks. The second? When said rock star puts two stolen items together and instantly creates a fashion sensation. The former lead guitarist for Guns N' Roses (now with Velvet Revolver) recently chronicled his rise to rock stardom in his eponymous book Slash. I spoke with the guitar legend about how and why he developed his signature style:"

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Pot Suspect Served Hash Cake for Lunch

(12-20) 13:21 PST AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) --

A man being held in a Dutch police cell on suspicion of growing cannabis got an unintended treat in his lunch — a piece of hashish-laced cake, a spokesman said Thursday

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