Being in the Act of Romancing

For Jenn.

Oh, its worth watching til the end.

You're Welcome:

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And the geeks shall inherit the hot rods.

Hot Rodding Comes to Hybrids | Autopia from Wired.com:

"A growing number of Steve McGreens are souping up their gas-electric hybrids to make them go faster and handle better, while delivering stellar fuel economy. It isn't just gearheads busting their knuckles, either. A lot of the hybrid hackers are tech geeks whose innovations may well appear in the cars we'll buy tomorrow."

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Biubz.

Genius.

Ugandan men warned of 'booby trap':

"Uganda's police warned male bar-goers to keep their noses clean after a probe found a gang of robbers had been using women with chloroform smeared on their chests to knock their victims unconscious. Skip related content

'They apply this chemical to their chest. We have found victims in an unconscious state,' Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) spokesman Fred Enanga told AFP.

'You find the person stripped totally naked and everything is taken from him,' he said. 'And the victim doesn't remember anything. He just remembers being in the act of romancing.'"

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According to this person.

10 U.S. Places to See Before You Die

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And I Take Your Money

Check out the super sweet new header that Ms. Jenn created for moi's birthday. Best b-day present ever!

Be on the look out for some different version.

AAW is becoming a big boy blog!

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V-PILF is suppose to hide in Cheney's bunker after she's elected, not before.

She's playing hide and seek with the electorate and that can't be good.

Much more of the McSame.

Not Training Wheels We Can Believe In:

"Sarah Palin could be the President of the United States in four and a half months. We tend to think of this as an abstraction; but it's true. And yet today she's so unprepared and knows so little about the challenges and tasks facing the country that she can't even give a softball interview.

That's really all we need to know. Yes, she's off being prepped at some undisclosed location. And I've little doubt that by the time her debate rolls around she'll be sufficiently pumped full of slogans and bromides to make a show of it. But now, this moment, is the one that tells us all we need to know.

As is so often the case, Palin is the incarnation of the Republican slurs. The darling of the hard-right; she gives a stem-winding speeches. She pushes all their buttons. But she's such a lightweight, they can't risk letting her answer a few questions. Not even on Fox. They know she's not ready and probably never will be. But they think the politics might work for them."

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Uh, oh looks like someone has ADD. Not good when you're negotiating with Putin.

What's she running from?

Palin Attended 5 Colleges In 6 Years:

"POKANE, Wash. - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended five colleges in six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987.

Federal privacy laws prohibit the schools from disclosing her grades, and none of the schools contacted by The Associated Press could say why she transferred. There was no indication any of them were contacted as part of the background investigation of Palin by presidential candidate John McCain's campaign.

'Our office was not contacted by anyone,' said Tania Thompson, spokeswoman for the University of Idaho in Moscow."

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Super Sarah was for earmarks before she was against them.

Sarah Palin, John McCain, and Earmarks:

"The Seattle Times reported yesterday that she submitted 31 earmark requests totaling $197 million in the current (FY2009) budget cycle. According to that paper, it was “more, per person, than any other state.”

The Washington Post reports that in 2000, Palin took an extraordinary step as the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, a town that had fewer than 5,500 residents—she hired a Washington lobbyist to seek congressional earmarks. According to the Post, she won a total of $6.1 million in earmarks for the city of Wasilla in 2002."

Both numbers need to be placed in some perspective. Fiscal year 2008 was the first year for which there was a complete listing of all earmarks contained in all appropriation bills. That information was loaded into several databases, including the one developed by Taxpayers for Common Sense. According to that data, the average state got about $50 per person in earmarked funds in 2008. Alaska, represented by Ted Stevens, the Senate’s earmarker-in-chief, got $506 per person—about 10 times the national average. Wasilla between 2000 and 2003 was getting well over $1,000 per person—twice the Alaska state average in 2008.

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But the mean ol' new media needs to stop trying to ask her questions. Just shut up and parrot whatever the McSame campaign tells you to say. Haven't you learned anything over the past 8 years.

Why the media should apologize - Roger Simon - Politico.com:

"ST. PAUL, Minn. — On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.

On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.

We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.

We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?

Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.

It is not our job to ask questions. Or it shouldn’t be. To hear from the pols at the Republican National Convention this week, our job is to endorse and support the decisions of the pols."

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Hopefully the putzs in the traditional media will do their damn job this time around.

Not holding my breath, though.

Angry Amateurs - Swampland - TIME:

"The second thing is more insidious: Steve Schmidt has decided, for tactical reasons, to slime the press. He wants the public to believe that there is an unfair--sexist (you gotta love it)--personal assault going on against Palin and her family. This is a smokescreen, intended to divert attention from the very real and responsible vetting that is taking place in the media--about the substance of Palin's record as mayor and governor."

There is a tendency in the media to kick ourselves, cringe and withdraw, when we are criticized. But I hope my colleagues stand strong in this case: it is important for the public to know that Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local library and thinks the war in Iraq is "a task from God." The attempts by the McCain campaign to bully us into not reporting such things are not only stupidly aggressive, but unprofessional in the extreme.

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Whenever I think of V-PILF this song pops into my head...

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OK, some funny....

If They IM'd: the Republican VP losers - 236 - News

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DBT Week in Review - 8/1/08

Glossary

It took me two weeks to edit down the pictures from the Glossary show I attended in Tempe, Arizona.

Finally, I got 'em finished.

It was 20 years since I last laid eyes on Todd Beene, Glossary's guitar playing, pedal steel pickin', song singing class act extraordinare. (had no idea that Todd sings 'Bitter Branch' on Angels until he busted it out live, on stage right in front of my face. For someone who likes to know all things hip and now I can be surprisingly clueless sometimes.)

Once I got to the venue I called Todd and he and Bingham, Glossary's bass player, came out to greet me. We bellied up to the bar and ordered some drinks and caught up on old times.

Todd and I shared an acting agent way back when in Florence, Alabama. We, along with Chris "Monster" Quillen, participated in an after school special produced by Bell South in the mid 80s called, ironically enough, 'Discover Your Own Song'. I've got a video (vhs, of course) that, hopefully, I'll soon have digitized and Youtubed so we can compare who had the sweetest Simon Le Bon hair cut between Todd and I.

Glossary has had one hell of an adventurous year, in my opinion. They've toured behind their 2007 offering 'The Better Angels of our Nature' which was my favorite record of 'aught-seven'. They toured with the Drive-by Truckers, This is American Music, The Drams, and they were an opener a few weeks ago for the Slobberbone reunion show. In other words they've been keeping some damn good company.

Being the fans that we are we all concurred on the greatness of Patterson Hood and the Truckers, Brent Best and the Drams/Slobberbone, Jenn B., and all of the freakishly consistent great folks who orbit all of these bands. We talked about the small, small world in which we live and connections made through bands and fans across the U.S. and globe for that matter.

The band hit the stage and tore into their set with wild abandon. Todd told the tale of 'Bitter Branch'. His family owned a cattle ranch in Lauderdale county back in the day and, like so many other family farms, had to sell it off due to the diminished economic viability of maintaining such a ranch.

After the ranch sold Todd's dad, Dan Beene, decided to try his hand at acting. To relate a small world story, in 2000/2001, I received a phone call from my good friend Steve Zapotoczny. Steve is the VP of Wheelhouse Productions. Before Steve became a Hollywood hot-shot he was the co-writer/producer/director of a feature indie film produced while he was at Duke University. The lead actor in this film, title, 'Summer's Gone' was yours truly.

Steve had just finished casting for the movie We Were Soldiers staring Mel Gibson. Steve rings me and says "Hey, we just cast someone from Florence, Alabama to be in WWS". I asked who and it was none other than Dan Beene.

Check out Dan's resume here. He's been in a ton of stuff.

Glossary is a joy to watch on stage. Bingham told me that he and Joey's background is in punk. This is apparent in Glossary's stage show as they lay all that they have on the stage during a performance.

Lead singer Joey's physical flexibility is something to behold as his bends and twist and pounces all over the stage.

Joey's wife, Kelly, and no disrepect intended, is soooooo beautiful... I mean, damn. Her harmonies are on par with her looks. And she was a sweet as can be as I chatted with her for a moment at the merch booth.

"The Falconer" on keys is as entertaining as they come.

Bingham and "Yellow Magnetic Seed" on the drums comprise one tight as hell rhythm sections.

To sum up my rambling, Glossary is a great, great band who, I hope has much success awaiting around the bend.

Go see 'em live!

Thanks for a hell of a show, Glossary!

Would A Slobberbone By Any Other Name Still Rock Your Face Off? | slackercountry.com:

"They went way back and played lots of old stuff. Stuff I haven’t heard them play in a long time. They even resurrected the banjo, which Brent Best explained was the real reason they broke up. He said when you make the decision to tour with a banjo there’s no going back. And a banjo will fuck you up. Every night it will say “you just try and make me work,” so when you finally decide it would be a lot easier to tour without the banjo everyone gets all pissed off."

There were two opening acts, Glossary and The Magpies. Originally it was just gonna be the Magpies but Glossary was in town opening for Lucero on Sunday night and they managed to get a night off from the tour and secure a spot on the bill. So that made for a night that got progressively better as it went on. Glossary is a six piece band from Murphreesboro, Tennessee that’s probably one to watch. Scratch the probably.

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DBT!

NineBullets.org - Message Board • View topic - Oslo:

"Hey y’ all,

just returned from Oslo. Strings still ringing, words still rhyming. Great crowd. Nearly went nuts when Shonna was singing “Home Field Advantage”.

The show exploded with a string of four absolutely crowd pleasers:"

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Have you seen this bass? � Pointy Pointy:

"Patterson just sent this cool video of his dad David playing bass for Traffic in 1972 here:"

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Via 'rjnss' on the Yahoo List. DBT and Slobberbone get shout-outs.

Living With Music: A Playlist by George Pelecanos - Paper Cuts - Books - New York Times Blog

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YouTube - Mrs. Dubose

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In case you missed it yesterday, DBT got a mention on Red State Update.

YouTube - Red State Update: Obama's German Crowds There For The Bands?

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MySpaceTV Videos: John Neff and Doug the Talking Dog by Scott Baxendale:

"Athen's musician and Drive By Trucker John Neff at home with his talking dog Doug. I Videoed this while visiting Athens to record with John Neff, Brad Morgan, John Mills and Dave Barbe.

John Neff and Doug the Talking Dog

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Muscle Shoals Sound

Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section musicians say being white surprised many who heard their music | TimesDaily.com | Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"A few days after his return from performing in the United Kingdom, veteran music producer and guitarist Jimmy Johnson sits in his small Sheffield recording studio and plays a CD of one of his artists, Shelly Bonet.

The CD, a collection of Bonet’s demo recordings, soon fills the room with the smooth, classic sound Muscle Shoals was known for in the 1960s and ’70s."

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Black & gold | TimesDaily.com | Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"As a young disc jockey in the African country of Senegal, Idrissa Dia said he discovered in a stack of records, only by chance, the music of Wilson Pickett and other black American soul singers. He played them on the air.

The music — a change from the salsa and French pop music the station normally played — created an overnight storm in Saint-Louis, where the station was based. The same thing happened when Dia took the music to a station in Dakar, the capital of Senegal.

Dia, now director of the French-to-Africa service for Voice of America in Washington, D.C., said the driving force of the music, which was recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, was the “righteous” performance by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section."

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Music

The Orstrahyun:

"It's hard for any die-hard AC/DC fan not to shudder at this news, from UK's Popbitch, that a new rock musical is in the works, based on the career and music (obviously) of Australia's most successful and influential hard rock band."

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The Top 20 Albums of All Time (For Real) - The Y! Music Playlist Blog:

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Via Roger Johnson.

This little girl is amazing.

A Video I Truly Love:

"I am usually loath to post videos discovered during my extensive hours of internet “research” for obvious reasons. This one is different. The equation is as follows: Ten year old Japanese musical prodigy in feather boa Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas = Sheer bliss

Trust me, turn up the volume and give it at least 50 seconds."

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DBT Week in Review - 7/11/08

Big Ass Congrats to the Swampers/Spooner et al.

They've been know to pick a song or two.

Pick me when I'm feeling blue... how 'bout you?

Just a Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T | TimesDaily.com | Florence, AL:

"The legendary Muscle Shoals music sound will be center stage again in October when the 2008 Musicians Hall of Fame class is inducted."

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Kudos are rolling in for our boys and girl. Some stiff competish. But it's gotta be pretty damn cool to be nominated along side Plant and Krauss.

Yo, Allison.... call me!

Plant/Krauss disc snares multiple AMA nominations on Nashville City Paper:

"The seventh annual Americana Music Association Honors & Awards show will be held Sept. 18 at the Ryman Auditorium. Once again the show will be hosted by Jim Lauderdale and feature a house band led by Buddy Miller.
.......

Steve Earle joins Lauderdale, Helm and McMurtry as Artist of the Year nominees. The Drive-By Truckers, The Avett Brothers, and the tandem of Kane Welch Kaplin are the other Duo/Group of the Year nominees along with Krauss and Plant."

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Via Will @ Nine Bullets

Tenacious D 'One-And-A-Half Songs' Into Next Album:

"Gass is spending part of the summer with General Motors' GMnext Plug In program, for which he's traveling to music festivals around the world to shoot 'hilarious video clips' of him interviewing and jamming with bands, which are then put up on the GMnext.com Web site.

He was most recently at the Rothbury Festival in western Michigan, where he hosted 311, Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood and the Wailers, among others, and he next goes to Lollapalooza in Chicago."

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Not sure if I posted this before so I'm posting it again.

The Media Equation - Live Music Thrives as CDs Fade - NYTimes.com:

"“The collapse of the record business has been good for us, if anything. It’s leveled the playing field in a way where we can keep slugging it out and finding our fans,” he said while toweling himself off after the set."

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NineBullets.org - Message Board • View topic - Help needed getting DBT into Rock Band

Here's the deal boys and girls...these a damn amazing game out there that I'm sure most of you have heard of - Rock Band. For the uninformed Rock band is a Xbox 360/PS3 game where each player plays specific parts of a song (think karaoke on steroids) with custom guitar/mic/drum controllers...Each week there are new songs (almost all are the actual original recordings) from bands big, medium & small added that you can download and play. The company closely watches it's messages boards to gauge interest in what songs to add...which is where I hope those interested on here might be able to help....

http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52941

The thread, which isn't even mine, is already 5 pages long and there are a lot of fans sorta coming out of the woodwork over there - I thought some of you who play games might be interested in hopping over and sharing the love...registration is easy, and theres not even a activation email link or anything.

It would be great for both parties involved and certainly expand the DBT reach (the game and its community are huge)...again, not trying to spam or anything, just thought some of your might be interested

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Bit of a Weeds fan. I've always thought DBT would be a great choice to cover the theme song.

Went to do a little research on the tune and found out something cool.

Little Boxes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"'Little Boxes' is a song written by Malvina Reynolds in 1962 that lampoons the development of suburbia and what many consider its bourgeois conformist values. It is best known through Pete Seeger's performance of the song. The group, The Shins, also recently covered the song.

Little Boxes was inspired visually by the houses of Daly City, California. Nancy Reynolds, daughter of Malvina Reynolds, explains:

'My mother and father were driving South from San Francisco through Daly City when my mom got the idea for the song. She asked my dad to take the wheel, and she wrote it on the way to the gathering in La Honda where she was going to sing for the Friends Committee on Legislation. When Time Magazine (I think, maybe Newsweek) wanted a photo of her pointing to the very place, she couldn’t find those houses because so many more had been built around them that the hillsides were totally covered.”[1]"

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A 'Tube of 'Wallace' via Marina.

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Newbie fan that couldn't wait to put up a cover.

YouTube - Suhnami Sings Self Destructive Zones:

"I've recently discovered the drive by truckers and they are the sho' fizzle."

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Lauderdale

Great article on Lauderdale in Flagpole.

Flagpole: Lauderdale

"Let’s use this space to advance the notion that the Drive-By Truckers have single-handedly raised the Southern rock bar to heights other like-minded artists will never attain, and in doing so have rendered their contemporaries obsolete. To be fair, after immersing in the DBT catalog, even the most irrefragable redneck appetite would be satiated, no? It could be argued that the Athens-by-way-of-Muscle Shoals band is responsible for the renaissance and simultaneous marginalization of the genre… But that was before Lauderdale, their 20-something neighbors from the Shoals, independently released their self-titled debut in 2007.

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MySpace.com Blogs - lauderdale MySpace Blog

And last, but not least, we will start tracking next week for our second album which has yet to be titled. I speak for all of us when I say that we're very excited about this one. We're very proud of our firstborn, but feel like the second effort will be a much greater depiction of who Lauderdale is as a band and a live show. Right now we've got somewhere between 15 to 20 song ready to record. Of course, all of those will not make it to the album, so we're planning on giving out some freebies that won't be released. Check back often, because those might be popping up real soon. Untill then, which will hopefully be around the new year, we're gonna take it a little easier for the next couple of months so we can record an album and do some "real world" stuff like pay bills, and work ourselves to death.

In the meantime, we'd love to meet you at a show; so check our calendar, let us know where we need to be, and support independent music!

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Check out this embarrassment of talented riches on stage together.

I could watch Jason Isbell play the guitar for hours upon end. He may just be my favorite guitar player ever.

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Speaking of Mr. Isbell and the 4-hunnerd Unit

Jason Isbell | Tourdates

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Finest guitar maker in the U.S.

Myspace.com Blogs - guitars, movies, and rock - Scott Baxendale MySpace Blog:

"I have been light on the bloggin' lately as I have been very busy trying to build 6 guitars, film two movies, score one other film, and play rocabilly with the Velvet Elvis.

I have a new updated website for www.colfaxguitarshop.com

And I have posted two new songs 'Prison Song' and 'String Changin'

Lots of new pictures as well"

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Music I Like

Via Jenn. I dig this band. Weekend Tongue is a fun summer tune.

MySpace.com - Donora - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Pop / Indie / Rock - www.myspace.com/donora

They do a kick ass cover of Hot Blooded. Also a version of M.I.A.'s Paper Airplanes. Post-Secrets used a song for one of their videos.

Here's Hot Blooded.

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Here's some pretty bluegrass that caught my ear via a MySpace friend request. If the Friday gets too long give her a listen at the end of the day. Assuredly will make things much better.

MySpace.com - Carleigh Nesbit - IVY, Virginia - Americana / Folk / Country - www.myspace.com/carleighnesbit

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DBT Week in Review - 6/20/08

DBT!

Great news! Congrats Wes!!

PIR Teams with Rock and Roll Artist Wes Freed to Promote NASCAR's Semi-Final Showdown - Phoenix Raceway:

"Richmond-based artist/musician Wes Freed – best known for his album cover art for alt-country rockers The Drive-By Truckers (including 2008's Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, which peaked in the Billboard Top 40) – was commissioned by PIR President Bryan R. Sperber and has produced a limited edition promotional poster for Phoenix’s upcoming race in NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup.

'Many NASCAR fans have come to enjoy the artwork of Wes Freed after being exposed to his work through the Drive-by Truckers,' Sperber said. “We reached out to Wes and also discovered he was a huge NASCAR fan - becoming thoroughly excited when he agreed to develop a special project with us that presents his unique perspective on the excitement of NASCAR racing at Phoenix. Wes’s work of art will commemorate the Checker Auto Parts 500 in a special way and make this November’s race even more memorable.”"

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Backstage at Bonnaroo: Drive-By Truckers:

"Thanks to the band's fans, we received a ton of fan-generated questions for Drive-By Truckers, and our William Goodman asked a few to Drive-By Truckers' Pattersoon Hood."

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PopMatters | Columns | Andrew Gilstrap | Field Studies | Righteous Paths:

"This column’s regular readers have probably noticed that I usually find a way to mention the Drive-by Truckers. What can I say? They’re one of my favorite bands. Their best songs contain the best kind of lyrics—the sort that kickstart your noggin on some creative path of its own. And then there’s that three-guitar attack of theirs: the last time I saw them live, it was after a day of sitting through a 401(k) meeting, and those road-caked chords washed over me like summer rain on a parched landscape. Heck, it doesn’t even have to be that dramatic. Sometimes after listening to CD after CD of brittle indie rock, it’s just time for an epic guitar solo."

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Bonnaroo: Southern Stories from Drive-by Truckers - ArtsBeat - Arts - Music - Theater - TV - Movies - New York Times Blog

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My friend Kimtucky recently visited Vietnam and had the following to report:

"I forgot to tell you that when I was flying on Cathay Pacific to Vietnam, one of their in-flight radio channels was playing songs with days of the week in the title...and guess what song was on there....Wednesday by DBT!! Pretty funny."

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Drams!

Ms. Jenn B. went and had herself and rock and roll adventure recently with The Drams and Glossary.

BBQ and Pond AIDS Tour � Pointy Pointy

MySpace.com Photos - Jenn - The Drams: BBQ and Pond Aids Tour, June 2008

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Music

Mike Ragogna: The Saga Of The Protest Song - Entertainment on The Huffington Post: "

About a month ago, while running some errands in the car with my nephew, we were listening to one of several interchangeable Clear Channel stations and by about the fifth song, I was amazed at how much this 'rock' did not. Whatever, I remained smiley and quiet so the young'un could enjoy his ride but predictably, by the next guitar-driven slice of angst, I could no longer contain myself and proceeded to abuse it with fervor"

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Enough already. It'll never meet the expectation of over a decade wait.

SFGate: Daily Dish : Guns N' Roses Hit Back at Internet Leaks:

"Rockers Guns N' Roses have moved to halt a series of Internet leaks, which threatened to disrupt the launch of their new album, 'Chinese Democracy.'"

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I dig M.I.A..... or, I dug M.I.A.

Bonnaroo: M.I.As Last Gig Ever?

YouTube - Sunshowers by M.I.A.

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Biafra celebrates 50th with pair of concerts:

"Angry and articulate, Jello Biafra has made as many enemies as influential records. Next week, the former singer of the Dead Kennedys turns 50, and he celebrates with a pair of concerts at the Great American Music Hall. He also celebrates a career that has seen the singer/raconteur/spoken-word artist lead the West Coast punk charge, run for political office and get beat down on more than one occasion."

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Bama News

Tuskegee Airmen to be subject of George Lucas film:

"MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The black airmen whose lives will be the basis of a George Lucas movie know the picture will highlight their record of successfully escorting thousands of U.S. bombers in World War II"

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Mussel vs. Muscle gets feedback | TimesDaily.com | Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"I've gotten a lot of good responses from last week's question about the origin of the name Muscle Shoals.

If you recall, someone had asked why the spelling is 'Muscle' instead of 'Mussel,' if the city were named after the mussels in these parts of the Tennessee River."

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DBT Week in Review - 5/9/08

AAW Fund Raiser.

Read all about it here.

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DBT

DBT is back on the road spreading rocky goodness across the U.S. of A.

Check out DBT's Website for tour dates and updates.

DBT's MySpace for fan love from the current shows.

And, of course, Nine Bullets for show reviews and views from the front lines.

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Shonna Tucker of the Drive By Truckers: Interview:

"What are you listening to right now?

There are so many things, but I really stick to the classics. I’m listening to lots of Eddie Hinton right now, and the Band is a constant. I also loved the new Levon Helm album. As far as newer things go, the Dexateens have put out a new record, and they’re always great. We recently played a concert with the Felice Brothers in New York, and I’m a big fan of theirs now. They sound a little bit like the Band, but with the Pogues thrown in."

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Interview with new poppa EZB.

Drive By Truckers play two in Greenville

"MS: Several DBT songs have a political meaning. New songs like “The Home Front” and “That Man I Shot” can be taken that way. What do you feel about the current relationship between music and politics?

BM: Most people are politically minded and that’s always come out in our stuff. Patterson definitely has a message with his songs sometimes, but in general we meet a lot of fans that are in the military that are affected by war. We’ve met people at our shows who are about to go to Iraq and they want to see us play before they leave. We’ve met people whose husbands and brothers are huge fans who are turning people on to our music in Iraq. That’s great, but then we have one guy who was supposed to come back from Iraq for one week to see a show and he ended up getting killed. His family came to the show and we talked to them for a while. It’s heartbreaking to see families like that while we’re playing music for a living. I don’t feel that we’re compelled to be political, but war and politics are so central on people’s minds that it’s hard not to filter it into songs."

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Video: Patterson Hood - Biff! Bam! Pow! - al.com:

"Patterson Hood ended his short solo run in between legs of the Drive-By Truckers' spring tour on Sunday at the Workplay theatre, treating a seated crowd to an acoustic set that showcased material from his albums Killers and Stars and Murdering Oscar (unreleased as of today)."

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Drive By Truckers Dirt Underneath Photoshoot Daddy's Cup

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DBT and Anime?

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Jason Isbell

Isbell and the 400 recently returned from their European tour and Jason blogged all the tasty details on his MySpace page.

Myspace.com Blogs - Back from Europe!! - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit MySpace Blog:

"Hello there, ladies and gentlemen. Hello there ladies and gentlemen. We are finally home, after one of the most grueling workdays of my career, and perhaps the most fun I've ever had on one continent. We played our last Euro show in Bergen, Norway at 1 a.m. on Wednesday night. The show was over around three, and we had to be on a plane at seven, so we played through like grown-ass men. Loaded our gear, headed to the hotel (the Radisson where Amy Winehouse got busted, or I should say, ONE of the Radissons where Amy got busted) showered up, put on our cleanest dirty shirts, and headed out. The flight to Frankfurt was about 3 hours, then there was a 2 hour lay-over and a 9 hour trek to Atlanta. We were picked up in Atlanta and rode the 5 hours home. That's travelin' folks."

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Music

sweeeeeet � Pointy Pointy:

"Got a message from my friend Shawn Kyle this morning, and it looks like his excellent band The Beauvilles have a new teaser for their upcoming video for their song “Snow”. And what a teaser it is:"

MySpace.com - the Beauvilles are rock and roll - FL-NY-MA, Florida

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April in Alabama

"Nothing could be more beautiful than April in Alabama and, in my case, nothing could be more exciting. I recently returned from the Alabama Studio Weekend in the Quad Cities—just forty-forty five minutes from my home on Elk River—and I feel as if I have spent two days in a kinder, gentler (and definately greener) New York City."

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Guest Blog by Dick Cooper: Delbert Needed a Drummer

"I was wired. Vickie and I were in the front bucket seats, Delbert and his wife were in the next seat and Billy was all alone in the back. Before we cleared the County Line Billy found an acoustic guitar case stashed under the seat, pulled out the guitar and handed it to Delbert.

Next thing I know Delbert is playing and singing. Billy is harmonizing, and I’m keeping it between the ditches. Pretty soon, there’s flashing lights in the rear view mirror.

The Rogersville Police pulled us over for running 74 in a 55 MPH speed zone. I got out and walked back to the cops before they reached the van, and Delbert never stopped singing."

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What do you think?

What do you think about this band from SC? One song posted on their MySpace and it is a goody.

MySpace.com - Sweet Six Bullets - BELTON, South Carolina - Southern Rock / Americana / Rock - www.myspace.com/sweetsixbullets

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Rockumentary

Watched a great rockumentary on Roky Erickson recently. If you rent it be sure to watch the follow up in the special features.

You're gonna miss me

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Birthday Wishes and a Grab Bag

Happy Birthday to the coolest, hottest, bestest, smartest, I'm-running-out-of-ests, woman I know!

Jenn Bryant came onto the scene some 29 years ago (I got yer back, girl) and the world is a much, much better place.

Go drop some birthed love on her MySpace.

For you, Jenn:

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Didn't really collect enough content this week for a DBT Week in Review, so I'm dropping all of the holdover articles from the week.

The Boss' backs Obama:

E Street Band mamber Danny Federici dies at 58

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When you get something stuck up your butt... literally, certainly you wouldn't want the doctor to film it on his iPhone:

Hospital in hot water over YouTube video of rectal surgery:

"Staff at a Philippine government hospital are under investigation after a former patient threatened a lawsuit over a YouTube video clip of his rectal surgery, officials said Thursday.

The clip showed hospital staff, including nurses and surgeons, laughing and cheering as a blue canister was removed from the male patient's rectum during the January 3 operation at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Centre in the central city of Ceb"

Romanian fined for allegedly making 6,442 profane calls

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ABC sucks ass.

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Love this guy.

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Love this song. Ole!

Whiskey River Take My Mind

"....meanwhile the whole world suffers from hunger and meanness
but we’re more concerned with the President’s penis”
-The President's Penis Is Missing - DBT

As $110-million-dollars-in-the-bank-account-over-the-past-8-years and 30 years inside the D.C. bubble Hillary attempts to paint Obama as some sort of 'elitist' *snort* she's also desperately attempting to cast herself as some 2nd Amendment loving, whiskey drinking, GRITS.

First Annie Clinton-Oakley. Convenient:

Clinton Becomes A Gun Lover:

"Clinton said she has hunted ducks."

She didn't kill any because she couldn't get off a shot with all of the sniper fire and evasive maneuvers and such.

Obama nails her on it:

'Shame' on Clinton: Obama hits back in guns and religion row :

"'Hillary Clinton is out there like she's out in a duck blind every Sunday, she is packing a six shooter -- come on she knows better,' Obama said in Steelton, Pennsylvania"

But 'The Google' nails her even harder.

'Annie Oakley' changes her tune:

"Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who has cast herself in the past few days as a champion of gun owners, had a very different message when she spoke eight years ago to the Newspaper Association of America.

“CLINTON TAKES AIM AT GUNS,” said the all-caps headline on the group’s Web site after she told members in May 2000, during her Senate campaign, that “there isn’t a more important task” than passing gun-safety laws."

Say anything, do anything Clinton. Anything to grab all of the pow-wah.

Speaking of 'do anything':

Clinton Becomes A Gun Lover

"Clinton stood by the bar and took a shot of Crown Royal whiskey. She took one sip of the shot, then another small sip, then a few seconds later threw her head back and finished off the whole thing."

(Hill, you'll never live this one down)

First, Crown Royal is a Canadian Whiskey. You'd figure she could have at least ordered some good old American Jack Daniels.

Also, do we really want another crossed eyed whiskey craver as Preznit? Again?!?

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Straight up racism directed at Obama by an inbred Kentucky Senator. It's only going to get worse:

Obama hits back at inexperience charge from GOP lawmaker:

"A Republican congressman used some of the most racially charged language of the election season to attack Barack Obama's fitness to be president, causing the Illinois Senator's campaign to issue a sharp rebuke Monday.

Rep. Geoff Davis was speaking to about 400 donors at a fundraiser in Kentucky, when he said of Obama, 'That boy's finger does not need to be on the button"

Of course he later profusely apologized, but you got out into the ether, didn't you Geoff Davis (ironic, huh) you racist piece of in-bred shit.

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JennB uncovers one of the coolest stories I've read in a while. There's a really good movie or a DBT song in here somewhere:

She’s a… plural? � Pointy Pointy:

"They’re interviewing a woman who discovered that her children - the ones that came out of her - were not hers. They simply did not have her DNA. Turns out, the poor mother was actually… two people. A plural."

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DBT Week in Review - 2/25/08

Help a fellow DBTer and really cool chick fight cancer.

Way off topic, I know. But since it's quiet here in DBT land, I figured I'd send this out to you guys. Cancer has hit us on this board before. We've all been affected by cancer one way or another and I've finally decided to do something about it.

I ain't no super-hero but I'm temporarily dropping the bon-bons and the cigarettes and slapping a sports bra on these cancer-free boobies and I'm running my first marathon!!! If you'd like to donate a buck or two on my team's behalf (Team Jugs), I'll let you take a quick peek at my lady lumps at the next show in a town near you. You can even cop a feel! Just click on the link below:

http://race.komenatlanta.org/site/TR?pg=personal&fr_id=1000&px=1021426

P.S. You're not really sneaking a peek at my lady lumps. Or touching them. But hey - they say sex sells. Hit me off-list if you're having trouble with the link.

Let There Be Rock and Boobs,

Andrea Gómez

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Swampland - Water, Water everywhere....

"Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers expresses his gratitude to Black Warrior Riverkeeper in his YouTube video. Hood says that it is time for us all---liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, to take a stand to protect the Southern way of life which has always been involved being outdoors and on the rivers and in the woods. He says they have “strip-malled and strip-mined our land.” They have “cut down the trees and polluted all the rivers.” On the Drive By Truckers' 1999 album Pizza Deliverance, Mike Cooley writes about “Uncle Frank” who had nothing but just had a little piece of land. This land was flooded by TVA in the 1930s. Here is the opening stanza of “Uncle Frank”: “They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice./ Now we got more electricity than we can ever use./They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved out,/but they got paid so there ain’t nothin’ else to think about.” Uncle Frank, who couldn’t read or write, left no suicide note but “Just a rope around his neck and the kitchen table turned on it’s side.”"

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Pop culture is getting an injection of meth - Movies- msnbc.com:

"Not getting attention Patterson Hood, one of the singers and songwriters in the Drive-By Truckers, witnessed the effects of meth firsthand in his Alabama hometown, which “really got hit hard a few years back.” He penned “You and Your Crystal Meth” in response.

“At the time, nobody was talking about it,” said Hood. “There wasn’t songs about it; it wasn’t getting much attention from the press.”

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Swampland Patterson Interview

"GRITZ caught up with Patterson to get his thoughts on the latest Drive By Truckers album, his favorite music and the state of the Union."

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NineBullets.org - a DBT fansite :: View topic - Stories From the Road: 2/19/08:

"So Matt D, DBT's tour manager, woke up this morning and went up front to check with the bus driver, Kennedy, who'd been driving all night.

Kennedy says, 'I almost got hit by a star this morning.'

He goes on to tell about this giant ball of light that came down from the sky and landed in the median about 30 - 50 feet from the bus as they were driving down the road.

So they Google and find this:

Idaho Press-Tribune: "TREASURE VALLEY - Caldwell resident Glenda Nash was on her way to babysit her grandchildren early Tuesday morning when she saw a flash light up the sky. “I never saw anything like it before. The light was kind of blue-gray, then it turned orange,” Nash said. “I was just driving down the road and I saw a big light and a big flame and it just hit the ground. It was neat but kind of scary.”"

The Dragon that almost took out the mobile Muscle Shoals.

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

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Drive-By Truckers carry the torch for rock and roll | Entertainment Top | Idaho Statesman:

"I've got a question for you: I don't want you to get a big head, but I'm having my first child in about three months. I want to ask you about names. This has nothing to do with you, but one of the boy names my wife and I are considering -we don't know what we're going have - is Patterson. One concern with the name Patterson is: Did you ever get hit with Pat growing up?

Yeah, and I hated it. I still hate it. People still sometimes want to call me that, and I can't stand it. I don't care for the name. I've got some friends named that and it works for them, but ...

It's pretty much constant, you know, particularly for the first 35 years or so. It helped that my wife really loves the name Patterson and she would always get kind of red-assed when people would call me Pat in front of her. So it was nice to have somebody take that role for me, because I always felt kind of cheesy. So I would generally let it be and let it sit, so therefore I would continually get called that. But I never really felt like I was a Pat. I always felt I was a Patterson. Patterson's a family name. It was my granddaddy's last name, and I was named after that. I prefer to be called that."

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The Drive-By Truckers' rocky road turns brighter – February�2008:

"The process became even more alien for Tucker when she took her songs into the studio with the Truckers, as she had composed the songs with rudimentary guitar skills then had to switch back to her bassist role with the band during recording.

'I can't play guitar well at all, and we went in, and I had this bass, and I said, 'Oh, yeah, I gotta play bass and sing,'' says Tucker with a laugh. 'We had to figure it out, so it was a fun adventure. It changed my life, actually. I learned a lot about myself and that I could do things that I didn't know I could do or at least I haven't done them in a long time.'"

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Drive-By Truckers News on Yahoo! Music:

"The Drive-By Truckers are back on the road again and brought one of the most deeply probing and incendiary live rock shows out there to the Avalon in Hollywood on Tuesday night."

In a world of real justice, the Drive-By Truckers would at least be headlining a Gibson Amphitheatre-size venue. But calculated pandering rules the mainstream, and this brilliant rough-'n'-tumble outfit bravely travels the alternate highways as perhaps the best rock band in America right now.

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Exclusive Music Interviews - Music Artist Interviews - Band Interview

"'(The record has) a lot of first and second takes,' Hood said. 'I kind of like the way a song sounds when everyone's struggling to learn it more than the take when it's all polished. Sometimes there's more raw inspiration in those early takes, and we always kind of gravitated to those anyway, for better or worse at times.'"

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Drive-by Truckers - Recess:

"I can definitively say that the raucous 'The Man I Shot' is the best (and perhaps only) song I have ever heard about living with post-traumatic stress disorder"

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The Drive-By Truckers' Worst Song, Played on the Ugliest Guitar by Rob Harvilla

Spinner 3x3: Live Concert from the Drive-By Truckers - Spinner.com

dbts : Message: 2008 Grammys and Drive By Truckers @ HOB Anaheim

Seattle Pics:

MySpace.com Photos - Meramore for Prez - Feb 17, 2008

MySpace.com - Travis - 29 - Male - Seattle, US - www.myspace.com/travduke

SimpleViewer

Myspace.com Photos - Scott Baxendale

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Myspace.com Blogs - Cast your vote: Dexateens nominated for two BAMA awards
:

"Cast your vote: Dexateens nominated for two BAMA awards

The Dexateens were recenlty nominated for two BAMA awards presented by the Birmingham Weekly. Categories include best rock band and album of the year for our Hardwire Healing LP. The BAMA's are sort've a local affair, but voting is open to anyone anywhere. Stop by Birmingham Weekly to cast your vote. Not sure about the other categories? Leave em' blank or write yourselves in! The polls are open for a couple weeks. Stop by and vote if you can."

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Music

Fritts inducted into hall of fame | TimesDaily.com | Florence, AL:

"Hours before the he was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame on Friday, Donnie Fritts sat down with his longtime friend Kris Kristofferson and talked about music, and their relationship.

Kristofferson was in Montgomery to induct Fritts into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, along with Muscle Shoals native Boyd Bennett, Ernie Ashworth, Cleveland Eaton and Styx guitarist Tommy Shaw."

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After the music dies � Pointy Pointy

2. The internet will have been harnessed, and will be regulated and policed by “government” (Big Business) (probably under the guise of “saving the children”) so that you will have very few outlets for originality, as exists in the record industry and radio these days.

It’s all up to us, and who we elect, and how much attention we pay to what is going on.

If you think the internet will always be free and easy, you’re wrong - it’s gonna be a fight, believe you me.

I’m opinionated about my music and I have a definite idea of what is good and what isn’t, but I don’t try to force it down anyone’s throat any more (well not much). I do believe with all my heart that some music transcends all barriers, and unless you’ve been molested to country music or had some terrible experience with music in general, you , my friend, will like most of what I like. I believe that if you aren’t a DBT fan, then you haven’t really listened to DBT. If you aren’t a Slobberbone fan, you have not really listened to Slobberbone. If you are not a Centro-Matic fan, then you haven’t ever really listened to Centro-Matic. I think that good music like this will break through most barriers and if you listen to it correctly, you can’t miss the genius. There’s enough variety for anyone to find something they bind to.

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Springsteen, Young join anti-war soundtrack

Rocker tells Huckabee to lay off song

Apple - Trailers - Young At Heart - Trailer A

People of the Web - How to Become a Rock Star

Black Crowes Say Maxim Review a Fraud

'My lost weekend with Lennon': May Pang breaks her silence over their relationship | the Mail on Sunday

Neil Young: Music Can't Change World

French crooner Henri Salvador dies at 90 - Yahoo! News:

"PARIS - Henri Salvador, the velvet-voiced French musician credited with inspiring the bossa nova, bringing rock 'n' roll to France and helping create the music video, died Wednesday, his record label said. He was 90."

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Rock Show!

Woo-hoo! Rock Show tonight.

When the Rock Show comes to your part of the world be sure to pick up some fine merhandise from the band. They have some really sweet t-shirts available:

Jenn B's got a great post on 'music':

After the music dies � Pointy Pointy

I’m opinionated about my music and I have a definite idea of what is good and what isn’t, but I don’t try to force it down anyone’s throat any more (well not much). I do believe with all my heart that some music transcends all barriers, and unless you’ve been molested to country music or had some terrible experience with music in general, you , my friend, will like most of what I like. I believe that if you aren’t a DBT fan, then you haven’t really listened to DBT. If you aren’t a Slobberbone fan, you have not really listened to Slobberbone. If you are not a Centro-Matic fan, then you haven’t ever really listened to Centro-Matic. I think that good music like this will break through most barriers and if you listen to it correctly, you can’t miss the genius. There’s enough variety for anyone to find something they bind to.

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Finally, do something to help keep the troops safe:

VoteVets.org | Join Our Cause:

"Last week, the New York Times reported that the Bush Pentagon had agreed to a contract for more Kevlar helmets for our troops from the very company that was being sued for cheating troops out of helmets that met military standards. Especially at a time when so many troops are in harm’s way, no such company should ever receive a new contract. Demand that Congress investigate how this could have happened, by signing our petition below. We’ll deliver your signatures to Capitol Hill."

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Alrighty, then I'm off to Rock the demons from my soul. So excited.

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DBT Grammy Week in Review - 2/8/08

Whew! Lots of goodness coming in the next few weeks.

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1st: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AVA HOOD (a day late).

Here's some Dolly for you, Ava!

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The Home Front Tour Kicks off next week. Rock Shows!

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It's Grammy time Y'all!

Via Daniel on the Yahoo List:

dbts : Message: Grammy Telecast Info:

"Just in from your friends at the Grammys. This came to me in an email this evening.

Daniel

'Dear Friends,

I am very pleased to announce that for the first time in GRAMMY Awards history, our Pre-Telecast awards presentation on February 10 will be broadcast live online. By logging on to GRAMMY.com from 1 - 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, Academy members and music fans will be able to view awards given in each category announced during the Pre-Tel. We now have a public platform to showcase artists and performers in categories announced prior to the 50th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast - providing Recording Academy members, in every genre, the opportunity to view the results in real time.'

Here's the link:

GRAMMY.com

Go get a little gold plated paper weight, Bettye and DBT!

Here's Bettye showing up on one of my favorite progressive blogs:

Crooks and Liars � C&L’s Late Nite Music Club with Bettye LaVette:

"A few days ago, one of my oldest friends, Denise, did a gut-wrenching story on blues singer Bettye LaVette and her new album The Scene of the Crime. Denise’s story is in the latest Crawdaddy and if the heartfelt blues is what rings your bell I want to urge you to listen to Bettye’s version of this Elton John-Bernie Taupin song from the 70’s and then go read Denise’s story."

Crawdaddy! - Feature Story - Bettye LaVette: When the Blues Catch up to You:

"I'd certainly heard of the battle of Bettye LaVette, a struggle that lasted for decades and ended with the singer's triumphant comeback, but I hadn't really heard Bettye LaVette until one day fairly recently. The morning started with me putting on The Scene of the Crime, LaVette's latest disc on which she's accompanied by the Drive-By Truckers. It ended with me hunched in a chair, sobbing into my hands."
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"Recorded at FAME Studios in Hood's hometown, he assembled the studio personnel, including his band as well as old-soul hands, like his dad and bassist David Hood (who played on LaVette's obscured Child of the Seventies album) and keyboard legend, Spooner Oldham. Together, they created a bed of Southern comfort upon which LaVette laid her smoke and honey voice.

YouTube - Bettye LaVette: "Take Me As I Am"

If Bettye/DBT win the Grammy then its the greatest award show in the history of the world.

If Bettye/DBT DON'T win the Grammy then that shite is rigged and it sucks arse fiercely.

Just the way things are gonna be.

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Please let us do take a moment to sing the praises of DBT Jenn. The greatest GSD woman out there.

the hoyden: And Now Let Us Sing the Praises:

"of DBT Jenn and other GSD (Get Shit Done) Women

You know what I'm talking about. I'm sure you have some in your own life. Women who, though they may not have the most high profile, well paying or glamorous jobs, are totally getting it done. They cut through red tape, speak the language and just in general make the world work. Women who personify that seemingly rarest of all modern qualities, complete competence.

This sprang to mind recently with the release of the new Drive-By Truckers' CD 'Brighter Than Creation's Dark'. (I'm still getting to know it, an actual review will be forthcoming.)"

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BTCD debuts at #37 on the Top 200 charts. This is the highest debut for any DBT record. BTCD peaked at #6 on the Independent Albums chart.

'Juno' Unseats Keys From Atop Album Chart:

"Other debuts this week include the Disney compilation 'Radio Disney: Jams 10' at No. 18 with 21,000, country newcomer Chuck Wicks' 'Starting Now' (RCA) at No. 24 with 20,000, Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers' 'Brighter Than Creation's Dark' (New West) at No. 36 with 16,000, Brushfire/Universal artist Matt Costa's 'Unfamiliar Faces' at No. 59 with 11,000 and singer/songwriter and 'One Tree Hill' star Kate Voegele's re-release of 'Don't Look Away' (MySpace Records) at No. 63 with 10,000."

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Drive-By Truckers: Light It Up on JamBase:

"The Drive-By Truckers are an American treasure. You could chisel their likenesses into rock's Mount Rushmore, somewhere next to Bruce Springsteen and The Black Crowes, and never flinch while working that hammer. Where the marrow and muscle have been drained from so much that calls itself rock, DBT stands dirty and defiant, solid as a brick shithouse and fragrant as your first backseat grope. They're as human as they come, stumbling towards redemption with one foot planted in joy and the other in fear. Their music will make you lose your freakin' mind and inspire fat, healing tears if you let it inside."
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"'That was a biggie,' says Hood, referring to their Fillmore debut a few years back. 'As a kid I grew up worshipping rock 'n' roll and reading all the big magazines. I grew up in the era of Creem and Rolling Stone was a little different then, or I perceived it to be anyway in my teenage head. The Fillmore was always the landmark. Each time we get to play there is a big deal. I don't take it for granted, that's for sure.'"

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PopMatters Music Feature | Drive-By Truckers: The Burrs in Rock 'n' Roll’s Saddle:

"“Morning, shithead,” Hood says with a hoarse laugh to his friend and musical partner of the last 22 years. “Technology’s how you got all them kids.”"

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Andy Gill wrote the following 5 star review of BCTD for The Independent;

Album: Drive-By Truckers, Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West) - Reviews, Music - Independent.co.uk

Gill was a member of The Gang of Four:

MySpace.com - Gang Of Four - - Other - www.myspace.com/gangoffour

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Papa Bear and the Fuck-up

Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark: Pitchfork Record Review:

"As guys wrestle with the encroaching responsibilities of work and family, they still often romanticize or cling to their shit-kicking youth; the Drive-By Truckers' principal songwriters, Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, represent each side of this coin. Using the broadest strokes imaginable, gravelly and grizzly Hood is the endlessly vigilant, fiercely protective papa bear, while laconic slick-talker Cooley the hell-raising, yarn-spinning fuck-up."

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Swampland : Reviews:

"The Drive By Truckers' latest CD, Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, marks a new era for the band. With the recent departure of guitarist/songwriter Jason Isbell, the Truckers replaced Isbell with Athens guitarist/pedal steel extraordinaire John Neff. Considering the wise addition of Neff, these songs carry a strong country foundation. This latest release contains a wider, more universal musical/lyrical scope that transcends north, south, east or west."

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DBT is showing up everywhere. Get use to it.

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Face-Off: A late wake-up call:

"This is true in the NCAA Tournament. This is not true in Olympic basketball. If we don't win every game by 20, the tournament is a failure. I don't care if that seems unreasonable or unfair. I don't care if 'the world is catching up,' or if Del Harris is coaching China, or if the best point guard in the NBA is often a Canadian who resembles the second guitar player from a Drive-By Trucker tribute band. This is just about the only thing we have left, and now we clearly don't even have this. Even if we somehow bounce back and win the gold, it's over for us as a nation; this is like when the Spanish Armada got iced in 1588. We might as well start caring about soccer."

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Current TV

Baby Dee Drive-By // Current

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Check out EZB rocking his kit.

MEINL CYMBALS... INSPIRE: Artists : Brad "Easy B" Morgan

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Music

Via Brad on the Yahoo List

KATU.com - Video - Video - Teen rises to fame channeling Johnny Cash

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But she will be playing via telecast for jolly old.

Amy Winehouse's request for visa denied :

"In October, Winehouse and Fielder-Civil, were arrested in Norway on charges of marijuana possession, for which they were fined. In November, Winehouse's Norwegian attorney, Ole Kvelstad, said her payment of the fine amounted to a guilty plea, which he said could have serious consequences if she sought to enter the U.S."

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Rich... bitch...es.

Madonna Is The Richest Woman In Music, But Who Is #2? - Entertainment on The Huffington Post

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Wouldn't the more obvious be Paul... or Ringo....

This Beetle Really Rocks:

"A new species of beetle that appears as if wearing a tuxedo has been named in honor of the late rock 'n' roll legend Roy Orbison and his widow Barbara.

Entomologist Quentin Wheeler of Arizona State University announced the discovery and naming of the beetle, now dubbed Orectochilus orbisonorum, during a Roy Orbison Tribute Concert on Jan. 25."

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Led Zeppelin guitarist wants world tour

"TOKYO - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said Monday he was ready to take the iconic band on a world tour after burning up the stage at last month's reunion concert in London. But it probably won't be before September.

'The amount of work we put into O2 was what you would normally put into a world tour anyway,' Page, 64, said of the intense rehearsing the band did for the Dec. 10 concert at London's O2 Arena."

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UB40's singer Ali Campbell quits after 30 years :

"LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Ali Campbell is leaving the reggae band UB40 after selling tens of millions of records worldwide in a career spanning nearly 30 years, a spokesman for the group said on Friday.

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major labels: the problem with music:

"Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end, holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed.

Nobody can see what's printed on the contract. It's too far away, and besides, the shit stench is making everybody's eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there's only one contestant left. He reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says, 'Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim it again, please. Backstroke.'

And he does, of course."

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