DBT Week in Review - 4/30/10

DBT!

3DD is the place to be... especially hit that front page before you mosey to the new and improved forums.

threedimesdown.com

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Gretsch Guitar Signed by all Members of DBT to be Auctioned - Drive-By Truckers's MySpace Blog |

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Best review of the year and English is the writer's 2nd language AND this is the first time writer has seen the mighty DBT. American music 'writers' take note:

rockerparis: Drive-by Truckers @ L' Album de la Semaine Canal , Paris April 28th 8:00PM:

"Back at the famous Canal tv show L' Album de la Semaine to see , completely unknown over here, American band from Alabama ( and based in Georgia) Drive-By truckers."

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Drive-By Truckers deliver big tales worth stopping for - Go! Magazine | ColumbiaTribune.com:

"Driven largely by the stirring writing of Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, “The Big To-Do” is an album with evocative mini-narratives and tight yet unrestrained sound that grow more resonant by the listen, proving DBT the rare band that can string together 13 tracks without a single second of filler. One of the best records so far this year, it burnishes their reputation as first-rate rockers sensitive enough to color their songs with a cinematic brush."

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Encore performance this weekend on your local PBS.

Austin City Limits - (3412) Drive-By Truckers / Ryan Bingham

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Reel Fanatic: Atlanta Film Festival report No. 4: "The Secret to a Happy Ending" with the Drive-By Truckers

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Wait for it....

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Bettye LaVette

Great read but just a little bit more actual research needed. Not hard to do.

Bettye's new record is going to be the absolute tits, ya'll.

Leonce Gaiter: Bettye LaVette: The High Priestess of R&B, Too Long Ignored:

"Then someone comes along and reminds me of what we can do in other forms. Bettye LaVette has been around since she was a teenager in the early sixties, largely ignored. She never, as she put it, 'crossed over.' Opportunities were lost, missed, unrecognized or unfulfilled. Then, in 2005 she released 'I've Got My Own Hell to Raise.' The great Joe Henry produced. The songs came from a slew of fine female writers: Aimee Mann, Dolly Parton, Joan Armatrading, Lucinda Williams. Immediately, that voice slapped you. Unashamedly aged, rough, ragged and under absolute control. On the song 'Just Say So,' she proved that she could find depths of longing and desperation in a lyric that the songwriters probably didn't even know existed.

She then released the brilliant 'Scene of the Crime' with the Muscle Shoals rhythm section."

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FREE MP3: Betty LaVette - "Salt of the Earth" :: Featured Videos :: Paste

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ANTI- Bettye LaVette Invited By Robert Plan To Open On His July Tour:

"The stars are aligning for Bettye LaVette and the May 25 release of Interpretations: The British Rock Songboo, as Robert Plant has invited Bettye to open for his July tour. Bettye's 3rd album for Anti-, and the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated Scene of the Crime, is earning considerable praise from both the press and her artist peers, and she’s already booked for a performance on The Late Show with David Letterman for June 23.

The request to join the legendary Led Zeppelin vocalist on tour is not so much a notch in Bettye's belt as it is another link in the chain: Her latest work is an impassioned dissertation on the much-documented influence that American blues and soul had on British rock n' roll – but more than that, it's an exploration of how those echoes from a foreign shore in turn influenced and reshaped American blues and soul. Fittingly, Bettye’s rendition of the Led Zeppelin classic “All My Love,” will premiere exclusively on AOL’s “Spinner” April 27."

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Dexateens

Get yo momma a present from Elliott this year.

FOR SALE : LIGHTBOXES : ELLIOTT McPHERSON : CORNELIUS CHAPEL BUHL, AL

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Music

Diabetic and sleeveless. Classic.

DUDE, DON’T DIE. | The People's Music:

"Bret seems like a nice guy and has always done what most any other average American guy would do given the opportunity and selection of cowboy hats. In fact, Bret is America. He’s diabetic, sleeveless, and just trying to get back to his success from the 80’s. Bret Michaels is Mr. America, which is all the more reason he cannot die while under contract with Donald Trump."

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Justin Townes Earle live at The Guest Apartment on Baeblemusic

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OK, I'm ready to take you on now... what, you're quitting?

A-ha Breaking Up After Three Decades Together | PopEater.com:

"A-ha are ending their 30-year run.

The '80s band, who gave us the memorable video for their greatest hit 'Take on Me,' have decided to call it quits, EOnline.com reports.

Morten Harket, Magne Furuholmen and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy will tour one last time together this year, but it will be their last."

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Pitchfork: Record Store Day Sets, Uh, Records:

"Billboard reports that according to Nielsen Soundscan, this year's Record Store Day marked the biggest single day for vinyl sales in the history of Soundscan, which started counting things in 1991. According to Billboard, RSD's co-founder, the Music Monitor Network's Michael Kurtz, also reports that stores including New York City's Other Music, Seattle's Sonic Boom, and New Jersey's Vintage Vinyl, had their most successful days ever. And sales were up all across the board.

Good work, people."

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Beer

Went to high school with Dale. Yet to get my hands on any of his brew.

50 Beers to Try Before You Die - The Early Show - CBS News:

"Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale - $9 (6-pack cans)
Packed with tons of citrus from a heavy dose of American hops, this is the quintessential stateside IPA. Like most pale ales, it's on the hoppier side-which means its slightly bitter and sour. You know hops when you taste em. However, it's not as hoppy as a IPA (Indian Pale Ale). And we really like the can, which makes it easily transportable, great to bring to a picnic or barbecue or the beach. Technically speaking, beer lasts longer in a can because no light is allowed in."

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DBT Week in Review - 1/22/10

Update!

New Drive-By Truckers - "This Fucking Job" (Stereogum Premiere) - MP3 - Stereogum

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Still trying to catch up from the Athens excursion. I'll be editing my booty off this weekend to have stuff up next week. In the meantime....

Go to NineBullets.org for all kinds of reviews, pics and video.

Here's to people who.....

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Patterson Hood:

"No final tallies yet on the Nuci's Space fundraiser, but I'm suspecting it will end up in the $20,000 range. I will keep everyone posted as those figures come to me.
Thanks to everyone who bought tickets to the show and to everyone who came out to Nuci's Space and made bids on the fine art and memorabilia there. I'd also like to thank all of the artists who donated their wares to the cause.
Kudos to the Camp Amped Sampler Band that opened Thursdays benefit show. They were amazing. I look forward to seeing what each and every one of them do in the future."

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Truckin' on: The Hoods share a legacy in music || OnlineAthens.com

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The War On Pop: DBT's Return Home for Three-Night Stand: Drive-By Truckers at the 40 Watt (1/15/10):

"While the band played nine new tracks from The Big To Do as well as this tribute 7”, they also ensured that the hometown fans received more than their money’s worth, as they played an assortment of songs from across their catalog. Singers Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley alternated on lead vocals for fan favorites including “Three Dimes Down,” “Lookout Mountain” and “Women Without Whiskey,” providing the crowd with plenty a number to sing along with."

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Ummmm.

Nr. 29 - Drive-By Truckers: Southern Rock Opera | diskant.dk:

"Efter udgivelsen af debuten Gangstabilly i 1998 stod det ikke ligefrem skrevet i stjernerne, at Drive-By Truckers skulle g�hen og blive et af de vigtigste amerikanske southern rock bands i nyere tid, men det er lige pr�cis hvad der er sket!"

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DBT's documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending is being screened at the NoisePop festival in San Francisco. Woot!

** Noise Pop 18 || February 23rd to March 1st, 2010 || San Francisco CA **

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Facebook | Help Patterson Hood win an Oscar!!! Watch short video and repost

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Patterson Hood:

"Sign up for Patterson Hood's mailing list and get a free download of 'Depression Era' from the movie That Evening Sun"

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Drive-By Truckers:

"THAT EVENING SUN
Opening in theaters in Atlanta and Athens this Friday, January 22nd!

Grand Jury Winner at the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival
Starring Hal Holbrook, Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Carrie Preston, Mia Wasikowska, Barry Corbin, and Dixie Carter
Featuring music by Patterson Hood of 'Drive-By Truckers' (DOWNLOAD 'Depression Era')

This is a limited engagement so be sure to see it before it leaves theaters!"

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How awesome is this:

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Who Made You God? 1-14-2010 - SignOnSanDiego.com:

"The only thing hotter than the triple-digit temperatures at last year’s Coachella festival in Indio was the music produced by some of the event’s most potent artists. Few of them sizzled as much (or seemed as effortlessly cool) as Memphis soul legend Booker T., who performs Saturday at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts. The results were so joyous and exuberant that it was difficult to determine who was beaming more, the sweat-drenched members of the audience or Booker T. and his band (which at Coachella just happened to be top Southern rock band Drive By Truckers)."

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Jason Isbell

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Browan Lollar

Facebook | Videos Posted by Browan Job Lollar: "Closing Down My House" [HQ]

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Will Johnson

Magnet Magazine | GUEST EDITOR

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Vic Chesnutt

Southern Shelter � Undertow Orchestra @ 40 Watt 2/8/06:

"Undertow Orchestra was a songwriters “supergroup” featuring David Bazan, Vic Chesnutt, Mark Eitzel, and Will Johnson (assisted by multi-instrumentalist Scott Danbom)."

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Glossary

Last Chance Records and Tapes - Little Rock AR:

"GLOSSARY 'Better Nature' 180 gram deluxe vinyl LP

Limited pressing!

List Price: $20.00
Our Price: $16.99
You Save: $3.01 (15%)"

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Music

A. R. Kara: Amazing Photos from 'Elvis 1956': Celebrating The King's Birthday (PHOTOS, POLL)

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Blogger bags Big Music game - NYPOST.com:

"Meet the most influential man you've never heard of.

Bob Lefsetz, a 56-year-old blogger, is to music what Nikki Finke is to Hollywood -- a reclusive, sardonic writer who has the ear of every exec in the industry, but is little known and of little consequence outside of it.

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Jackson Thriller film picked for U.S. registry | Reuters:

"The 14-minute 'Thriller' is among 25 films the Library of Congress on Wednesday named to the registry, and it became the first music video included in the 2009 list of cultural treasures that will be preserved for all time."

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Top films of the decade:

"2. 25th Hour (2002): Spike Lee filmed this screen version of David Benioff's novel, about a New York drug dealer (Edward Norton) on his last day of freedom, just months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The first great 21st century film made about a 21st century subject, Lee's movie was a meditation on New York and America, and it captured for all time the spiritual misery and confusion that followed that tragedy. Misunderstood as just a pretty good movie in its time, it's an American masterpiece."

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Decade in review: The 10 best TV shows:

"7. 'Slings and Arrows,' Sundance Channel. Three smart, funny, subtle and emotionally rewarding seasons made this Canadian series one of those rare finds worth seeking out. Set at a troubled Shakespearean theater company, the literate and witty story lines revolved around not only the performers and their backstage antics and offstage personalities but also the overwhelming transformative power of the Bard himself, played by people who really felt the words. A gem."

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Bonus Tracks

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DBT Week in Review - 9/25/09

Rock star with a green thumb AND hot model. Oh, Shonna, is there anything you can't do.

Songbirds Page 6 | Alabama Chanin

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"Video for the Inflatable Orchestra (aka Jay Gonzalez) song, 'Into the Culvert.' This is actually something I shot a couple years back, which Jay and I have long discussed putting music to. Finally, this song clicked."

That's Don Chambers as the lead role.

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Haven't gotten mine yet, but you should get yours pronto.

However, I did watch The Accountant the other day... again. Never gets old.

Amazon.com: Randy and The Mob: Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins, Lisa Blount, Burt Reynolds: Movies & TV

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Via Jenn:

50 STATES: Alabama:

"How a place as nondescript as Muscle Shoals became such a musical mecca — the area is home to the growing Alabama Music Hall of Fame — is hotly debated by locals and tourists alike.

Four neighboring towns comprise the region that most people refer to as the Shoals: Florence, Tuscumbia, Sheffield, and Muscle Shoals are all clustered along the banks of the scenic Tennessee River, which used to be impassable here; giant boulders jutted out of the water and spelled doom for passing ships and barges. The Native Americans actually called it the “Singing River” after the sound of water passing around the stones."

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Singing River Records seeking third artist | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"Singing River Records is a record label managed by UNA students who are involved in every phase of the operation, from selecting an artist, recording the music, mixing the tracks and marketing and releasing the finished product."

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Interesting promo/release idea.

Smashing Pumpkins dot com | announcement from billy corgan about new smashing pumpkins album

I'm happy to finally announce the plans for the new Smashing Pumpkins album.

Recording began yesterday, September 15th, 2009 on the new record which will be entitled 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope'. The album will feature 44 songs, 4 of which are now being recorded. My desire is to release a song at a time beginning around Halloween of this year, with each new release coming shortly after until all 44 are out. Each song will be made available absolutely for free, to anyone anywhere. There will be no strings attached. Free will mean free, which means you won't have to sign up for anything, give an email address, or jump through a hoop. You will be able to go and take the song or songs as you wish, as many times as you wish.

We will however sell highly limited edition EP's (of 4 songs each times 11), and details of how those EP's will be made available are still being worked out. Because the songs themselves will be free, the EP's will be more like collectors items for the discerning fan who will want the art itself, along with the highest possible audio quality available. The EP's will be more like mini-box sets rather than your normal cd single. We may also offer other variations for sale, say for example a digital single with a demo version of a song. The commitment that is most important is the one I'm making to you: that the music of 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope' will be available for free to everyone. All 44 songs: free for ALL.

When the entire album is finished, it will be compiled into a deluxe box set which will also be made available for sale. Those who have bought the EP's need not worry, as the box set will not be a recompilation of the limited edition pieces.

The story of the album is based on 'The Fool's Journey', as signified in the progress of the Tarot. It is my intention to approach this by breaking down the journey of our life here into four phases as made by these different characters; the Child, the Fool, the Skeptic, and the Mystic.

The music of 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope' harkens back to the original psychedelic roots of The Smashing Pumpkins: atmospheric, melodic, heavy, and pretty.

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DBT Week in Review - 9/4/09

Peter Grumbine is a DBT uber-fan. Best. Press. Ever.

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Peter posted a very nice blog about TFP, too.

Buy this now: Drive-by Truckers 'the Fine Print' | Current_Music:

"Only Jason Isbell could so eloquently explain the significance of and provide contemporary context for the Tennessee Valley Authority as an early arm of FDR’s New Deal while also singing about rounding second base for the first time in the same song."

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It pains me that I do not have the capability to write anything close to the following. An incredible piece of writing:

Gangstabilly

What most impacted me about Patterson’s artistic vision was that it helped me understand being a white man in the south. Pride and guilt expressed to the sound of Crazy Horse with a few other guys sitting in. There is an apology that many southerners have prepared for the world. It’s an explanation to outsiders about how this place isn’t at all what they think it is, and if it is, then it has nothing to do with them. And then there is the tough, conservative old southerner types with their hands clenched to the stars and bars and a dedication so dear to the past that they’d probably tell you they’d ride a horse to work if somebody else didn’t have a problem with it. And if the past was that good, we probably should all ride horses and shit in the woods. Those rights are, after all, somewhat protected. And then there is that person, much like a Patterson Hood, who is self-aware as an individual and clever as an artist. His take on being born here shrugs the shame and guilt away, embraces the people and the will that has endured unwarranted ridicule and deserved blame, and understands that, either way, this is who I am. I think that much of his brilliance is in the personal concern for his geographical place in the world and the ability to treat it with an objective and educated, yet loving and compassionate hand. It is a painterly stroke that has, finally, made a musical connection from my father’s south to mine.

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Yay, Shonna!

Express Night Out | Arts & Events | Line by Line: Drive-By Truckers' Shonna Tucker Reads 'The Fine Print'

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Drive-By Truckers, 'Mama Bake A Pie': A Music Mix exclusive stream | EW.com:

"Do the Drive-By Truckers know something we don’t?"

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Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Drive-By Truckers: The Fine Print (A Collection Of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008):

"In March 1999, George Jones slammed his SUV into a bridge abutment, and Drive-By Truckers got a song out of it. Jones wasn't reeling from alcohol, nor was he being chased by an angry ex, nor did any of the hard-living country tropes play into the crash. Instead, he was simply talking on his cell phone to his daughter. He was in critical condition but recovered eventually. Which is fortunate, because a legend like Jones shouldn't go out that way. Part joking and part shaming, the Truckers' 'George Jones Talkin' Cell Phone Blues' acts as a biopic of sorts, framing a consideration of his life and legacy with details from the crash. 'He almost stopped loving her today,' Hood sings, before admonishing the legend: 'Better leave that cell phone alone.'"

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Drive-By Truckers, 'The Fine Print (A Collection of Oddities and Rarities (2003-2009)' (New West) | Spin Magazine Online:

"Clich�or not, Drive-By Truckers’ leftovers really are better than most bands’ main course."

Drive-By Truckers: The Fine Print (A Collection of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008) < Reviews | PopMatters:

"In the wake of the Drive-By Truckers’ split with New West Records this past spring, it’s hardly a surprise that the label is churning out whatever previously unreleased DBT-related material they can scrounge up. And after all, who can blame ‘em? Since picking up the Alabama-bred, Georgia-based band in 2003, the Drive-By Truckers have gone on to become one of, if not the most popular band on the label’s roster, and with a large fan base built solely from years of extensive touring, the demand for new product is definitely there."

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The Fine Print: A Collection of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008 by Drive-By Truckers on Blurt Online

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Drive-By Truckers Explore the South With Warren Zevon Cover - Spinner

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Very nice pics:

Drive By Truckers at the Visulite Theatre - AdamSchultz's Photos- powered by SmugMug

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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS > Live from Austin TX | American Songwriter:

"If ever a band seemed to demand a full bio documentary, shedding light on member comings and going, musical evolution, et cetera, it’s the Drive-By Truckers, but pending that ever happening, we get performance DVD"

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Centro-Matic

Centro-matic World August 16-18, 2009

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Music

Shazam on iPhone

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Police review Rolling Stone Brian Jones death after MoS reveals new evidence | Mail Online:

"Police are reviewing the death of Rolling Stone Brian Jones – 40 years after his body was found at the bottom of a swimming pool.

The dramatic move by Sussex Police follows new evidence unearthed by The Mail on Sunday about the mysterious death of the rock legend which suggests he was murdered by his minder"

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Via Peter Grumbine's Twitter feed.

I'm not all that familiar with Frank Turner. But when Brit musician crosses the pond and decides to do a show in someones basement, he's way OK in my book. Doesn't this look like a damn fine time?

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DBT Week in Review - 8/7/09

DBT/Patterson Hood

Our own Lurleen (Beth) McQueen produced a great interview with the lovely Shonna Tucker. Excellent interview and some really interesting responses from Shonna.

Great work both!

Jackson Free Press: Jackson, Mississippi - Music - Music Features - ‘Southern Female Attitude’

I've got a huge garden this year.

• What all are you growing?

I'm about to go pick okra right now. It's an everyday thing. I've got okra, onions, garlic, carrots, tomatoes—they are awesome right now—peas, beans, cucumbers, watermelon, six different lettuces. … I've got 11 chickens, so I kind of work and play in the dirt all day outside with my animals."

On music:

"It) makes people feel good sometimes to hear somebody say something that they wanna say and can't."

On valuing the fans:

"• The Drive-By Truckers often stick around after shows and give autographs. How would you describe your relationship with your fans?

Well, I hope it's great. I think that just relating to people is very important. You can't get up on stage and think, 'I'm gonna put on a great show tonight,' and then just walk away from these people who came out here and dropped everything and bought a ticket and drove forever and got a babysitter and whatever to see you play your guitar. You can't forget how lucky you are to be able to play music as your job. It blows my mind, still to this day. It's crazy that I can say that, and it's all because of fans. … I don't think any of us try to do it, or try not to, it's just I like to talk to people and see what's happening with them. I think it's very important."

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Patterson Hood and the Screwtopians: Collateral Damage And Then Some recorded Aug 6, 2009

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Someone on the Nine Bullets board caught this.

How weird.

Music Listings | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, Mississippi:

"Hal & Mal's Big Room - The Dexateens, Drive-By Truckers 9 p.m. 18 , $20 drivebytruckers.com

Reed Pierce's - Adam's House Cat 9 p.m. free"

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Isbell/Truckers

Isbell and Drive-By Truckers get us closer to real country - ESPN:

"Strange, then, that country music is making a resurgence in my life. For that, I blame the Drive-By Truckers."

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Music I Like

Check out these boys from the Shoals.

PLANET INK on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads:

"LOUD, CROWD PLEASING, FURIOUS, BLUES INJECTED MUSIC IS WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT. Planet Ink, from the legendary music scene in Muscle Shoals Alabama, has developed their own unique sound echoing riffy 60's groove, psychedelic, electric blues, and vintage rock flavor. Energetic, foot stompin’, head jolting live performances are all part of the Ink experience. The trio comprised of brothers Alexander and Micheal Bowling, and cousin James Sherrill has been providing audiences with slamin’ tunes and solid performances since the late summer of 2006. Thanks for checkin out our music, we hope you enjoy it"

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Music

Both sides of the argument:

Op-Ed Contributor - Radio Free America - NYTimes.com:

"WHEN I hear great American standards on the radio, I think of all the songwriters, artists and musicians whom my father, brother and I have worked with over the years. It reminds me that every recording has two parts, the composition and the performance. It also reminds me how many wonderful artists and musicians have not been paid fairly for their work."

NoPerformanceTax.org: Oppose the Record Label-Led Performance Fee on Radio.

What is a performance tax?
A performance tax is a fee that record labels want the government to impose on local radio stations simply for airing music free of charge for listeners.

In recent years, the record labels have seen sales of albums decline as more listeners opt for digital downloads. However, radio remains the number one promotional vehicle for music – it’s not responsible for the label’s resistance to the digital age, and it shouldn’t be on the hook to fix it. Radio already provides between $1.5 to $2.4 billion dollars annually in music sales for artists and record labels. By pushing a tax on local radio, record labels are biting the hand that feeds them.

Where does the money go?
In short, the money would flow out of your community and into the pockets of the record labels – the great majority of which are foreign-owned. The record labels would like for you to think this is all about compensating the artists, but in truth the record labels would get at least 50% of the proceeds from a tax on local radio.

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Very cool.

Sacramentan buys old vinyl 45s, finds out they were his mom's - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

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DBT Week in Review - 4/3/09

DBT!

Check out Booker T and DBT in the studio:

Then, listen to Native New Yorker:

Booker T. Jones: HuffPost Premiere: "Native New Yorker"

You're welcome.

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Why can't paid 'journalist' do just a little bit of research. Few people would associate DBT with soul music? Really? Soul is the teat from whence they suckled as babes.

WHEN I'M 64: BOOKER T. JONES:

"Two years ago, Booker T. Jones went to South by Southwest and ended up performing with his old band and connecting with a new one. After playing a showcase with the MG's—the Stax Records house band that backed Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and others and became famous for instrumentals like 'Green Onions'—Booker met a member of the group that would back him on his first solo album in almost two decades.

The band he found is one that few would associate with soul music: the Drive-By Truckers.

'I knew I wanted that attitude before I found the band,' Booker, 64, says over a glass of red wine at a bar in Manhattan's East Village. 'This album has a lot to do with attitude. The MG's were never an in-your-face band—the MG's is a groove band. But this is in your face, this raw, gritty sound that's too loud.'"

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Turn off the shuffle: 25 great albums that work best when listened to from start to finish | Music | A.V. Club:

"24. Drive-By Truckers, Southern Rock Opera (2001)
Neo-Southern-rock act Drive-By Truckers had only two obscure indie records and one incendiary live album under their belts when they decided to swing for the fences. Raising money from a group of colleagues and fans, the band recorded the double-disc Southern Rock Opera, a sprawling meditation on redneck identity politics and how the looming specter of mortality makes life—and rock ’n’ roll—more meaningful. Though less song-oriented than the DBT albums before and after it, Southern Rock Opera is no less fiery, and it contains some of Patterson Hood’s most personal reflections on how he’s come to embrace his Southern heritage while rejecting some of its more negative connotations. In the spoken-word piece “The Three Great Alabama Icons,” Hood weaves together his personal histories with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bear Bryant, and George Wallace into a complex statement on prejudice that’s like a rock ’n’ roll version of Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis. Like the album as a whole, it’s storytelling on a much higher plane than most shit-kicker rock bands ever aspire to."

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A rarity: Purgatory Line live:

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Check out Wyontt Meanler doing a couple of inspired DBT covers from the comfort of his dining room:

YouTube - Willieneis1's Channel

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Dexateens

email : Webview

THE DEXATEENS ANNOUNCE TOUR SUPPORTING NEW ALBUM

"The Dexateens nod to Crazy Horse, The Flying Burttio Bros and Exile On Main Street-era Stones while weaving their own distinctive spell." 4 stars Mojo

Tuscaloosa, AL - The Dexateens announce their first tour in support of their new album, Singlewide, due May 12th on Skybucket / Cornelius Chapel Records. The seventeen-date tour starts in their hometown of Tuscaloosa, AL and wraps up in Nashville, TN. The tour will be a co-bill with The Features. Those Darlins will open on select dates.

Singlewide will contain a download card of alternative versions of several of the songs on the album as well as video content. "Down Low" and "Trail" are available for preview on the band's Myspace page: www.myspace.com/dexateens.

Promotional video for Singlewide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHun18Uj8fM

Tour dates:
May 2 Tuscaloosa, AL Mellow Mushroom
May 8 Birmingham, AL Zydeco
May 9 Atlanta, GA The Earl
May 11 Charlotte, NC The Milestone
May 12 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel
May 13 Charlottesville, VA iS Venue
May 14 New York, NY Pianos
May 15 Cambridge, MA TT the Bears
May 16 Philadelphia, PA Khyber
May 17 Brooklyn, NY Union Hall
May 19 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
May 20 Chicago, IL Schuba's Tavern
May 21 Newport, KY Southgate House-The Parlour
May 22 Lexington, KY The Dame
May 23 Knoxville, TN Barley's
May 24 Nashville, TN The Basement
Jun 6 Chattanooga, TN Riverbend Festival Bud

May 8th The Features open
May 11th - May 23rd co-bill with The Features
May 11th - 13th & May 19th-23rd Those Darlins open

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MySpace.com Blogs - DEXATEENS tuscaloosa CRUSH CANCER april 10th - Dexateens MySpace Blog:

"Brian is raising a family with three girls and he is one of the kindest people I know. He is still working his job and carrying on with life, despite the sickness that is coming from his chemo. I just found out that the Penetrators have had a show on the books, at Egans, for many months prior to his diagnosis. They have decided to play the date and will be performing the week after our benefit, on April the 18th. Punk rock.

If you cant be one of the 100 to fit into egans on april the 10th, and you feel led to do so, please donate via paypal at crushcancer@hotmail.com."

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Tuscaloosa Trifecta: Dexateens, Cecil Hurt, and Deontay Wilder - TideSports.com

I'm not sure if you guys are really paying attention, but Tuscaloosa is on a roll.

Immediately you think I'm talking about UA athletics. Sure, it's easy to point to the football program and use it as a shining example with a recent undefeated regular season and back-to-back No. 1 recruiting classes. You don't have to look much further to bring up an SEC Championship in gymnastics, a top 5 showing in softball, a baseball team that simply mashes the pea, a golf prodigy committing to Alabama, and an obvious attempt at scoring a hot commodity as a men's head basketball coach. Anthony Grant or not, Mal Moore and Co. have made their statement.

But something else has risen from the soil of Tuscaloosa featuring three local staples that speaks volumes to where T-Town is in the whole order of things.

I'm talking about the Dexateens, our own Cecil Hurt, and bronze medal-winning boxer Deontay Wilder coming together for a few minutes of video utopia.

On May 12, the Dexateens release their latest album "Singlewide," and put together a little promotional video at Skyy Boxing featuring the members of the band, Cecil, and Deontay. You can find it on YouTube, TideSports, Tuscaloosanews.com, and right here in this little blog here.

Talk about a combined representation of sheer awesome. Really look closely at it. You've got a local band quite possibly on the cusp of taking the leap to national recognition (good luck, fellas), a local Olympic hero on the path to professional boxing success, and a well-known, well-respected, local sports authority that has been a cornerstone of The Tuscaloosa News sports department since 1982. It's the true Tuscaloosa trifecta.

The more I watch it, the more I absolutely love it. So I will share this with you. I will also add a couple more video items for your perusal ... one a T-News product following Deontay's Olympic journey and the other a terrific Dexateens music video shot at the Capitol School.

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Muscle Shoals Sound

Warm sendoff for hall inductee Oldham | TimesDaily.com - Florence, AL:

"TUSCUMBIA - It's been more than two months since Spooner Oldham learned he would be inducted in the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

On Saturday, prior to an event held in his honor at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Oldham admitted that the news still hasn't sunk in.

'This helps me get in the right frame of mind,' Oldham said. 'There are so many good choices, but they chose me.'"

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Studio success due to the people, songs | TimesDaily.com - Florence, AL:

"One of Johnson's partners in the studio, bassist David Hood, said it was the people who worked inside the concrete block building who made the studio so successful."

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A little bit rock 'n' roll | TimesDaily.com - Florence, AL:

"Pop/rock artist Stephen Craig never went to senior prom and didn't play organized team sports like most boys.

But he said his life, which is deeply rooted in a musical legacy, was completely normal.

Craig, the 25-year-old son of Marie Osmond and nephew of Donny Osmond, released his debut album 'That's What You Get' in 2003 in Japan. The album was recorded in the Shoals at Noise Block Studios in Florence."

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Music

Of course I'll go see this.

Green Day's 'Idiot' heads to the stage - Entertainment News, Legit News, Media - Variety:

"A legit tuner version of the 2004 Green Day album 'American Idiot' will open the 2009-10 season at Berkeley Repertory Theater.

Michael Mayer, who picked up a 2007 Tony for his direction of 'Spring Awakening,' will helm 'American Idiot.' Mayer co-writes the book with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who conceived the punk-opera album and wrote most of the lyrics. The band -- comprising Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool -- is credited with music for the show."

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Country star Merle Haggard stands tall

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Best. Excuse. Ever.

Method Man was too high to pay back taxes:

"Method Man was going to pay his bills ... but then he got high.

Despite recent reports that the rapper is so broke that his 2008 Lincoln Navigator was repossessed to pay back taxes, Method Man — whose real name is Clifford Smith — insists his cash flow is just fine. In fact, he says, his penchant for marijuana is to blame for the mishap."

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DBT Week in Review - 9/12/08

DBT!

We'll start off with Righteous Path from the Paradiso in Amsterdam:

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Ain't Shonna just the grandest thang ever:

MLB.com/Entertainment: News | MLB.com: News:

"'Since I was a little baby,' she says. 'Literally. I learned to walk with a baseball bat in my hand. My momma played in a league until I was a teenager. My daddy coached my brother's team.'

And Tucker played in her Killen, Ala., youth softball league from the age of 5 until the age of 11, when she decided she'd rather play hardball.

'I was the only girl in the baseball league,' she says. 'I played third base and first base. After that, I went back to softball in junior high and made varsity in high school.'"

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Creative Loafing Charlotte | Music | Features | Keep on Truckin':

"'I'm Sorry Huston' was written in 20 minutes after an odd experience at her house one day. 'I live out in the country in Alabama and the people that do know me know that I'm on the road most of the time,' she says. 'So, I don't get people just stopping by, especially at seven o'clock in the morning. There was a knock at the door and there was this little man and he was so intense and so wanting me to help him with the neighbor's horses so bad. I couldn't help him at all. I was in my pajamas and he wanted me to walk across the street with him over there and make sure he could read the address on the mailbox right.'"

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Check out the nice pics of DBT performing at The Green Man Festival in Wales:

Smashing Mag / Drive-By Truckers（ドライヴ・バイ・トラッカーズ）in The Green Man Festival @ Glanusk Park, Crickhowell, Brecon Beacons, Wales, UK (15 to 17 Aug '08)

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Awwwww, cute....

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Don Chambers + Goat

Don recently released his new album which was co-produced by Patterson.

Falling off the Edge of the World rocks mine and Highwater is like shittin' in high cotton.

MySpace.com - Don Chambers and GOAT - Athens, Georgia - Concrete / Gospel / Minimalist - www.myspace.com/donchambers

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allmusic ((( Zebulon > Overview ))):

"Don Chambers' blue-collar rasp may warrant comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, but the haunting, backwoods rock & roll that permeates Zebulon is more closely aligned with the distorted country-rock of the Drive-By Truckers. Appropriately, DBT frontman Patterson Hood lends his help to the effort, co-producing the entire album while adding backing vocals to a pair of songs. Brimming with muscled guitar riffs, twang, and fiery mesquite melodies, Zebulon is a passionate record, one that confronts the hardships of the South with an angry swagger. Yet the album is also lush, foregoing the ramshackle, breakneck pace of cowpunk bands in favor of a sound that crackles and burns. Chambers' hefty baritone is placed front and center, his melodies booming with reverb during tracks like 'Paint the Moon', while Hood's production captures a veritable swamp of guitars, pedal steels, and swirling organs. 'Highwater' is the highlight here, a slow-building mixture of harmonies and piano chords that eventually gives way to a guitar-filled catharsis, but Zebulon remains solid throughout."

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Got mine ordered. What about you?

Amazon.com: Zebulon: Don Chambers & GOAT: Music

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Jason Isbell

Jason speaking truth... much of it.

Myspace.com Blogs - The Shape We’re In - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit MySpace Blog

I'd like to start out by saying I'm not a politician, but that's not exactly true. Politics aren't limited to those who hold or seek office. Anyone who tries to bring people together toward a common goal is a politician. Anyone who understands or attempts to understand anything about group dynamics is a politician. By profession, as the wonderfully articulate James McMurtry would attest, "I'm a beer salesman," but I'm of the mind that if we want things to be different, we must affect change. We must be heard.

I'll give you some words I sang at the top of my range and voice, in repetition, most nights for six years, words I don't remember uttering even once since I began this phase of my life: "I'm scared shitless of what's coming next." Never has that been so true.

I miss singing those words. I miss singing all those words, but more than that, I miss seeing people in the audience who actually felt like they had some control over their individual and collective fates. It seems, in hindsight, that the folks I met on the road seven years ago were more hopeful, more convinced that they too had some kind of voice.

"You get the government you deserve." I've heard it said and I've said it myself. I'm not sure if it's true, but it's the kind of sentiment I can get behind. Cold, stubborn, rallying, almost. We don't, however get the education we deserve. We don't get the freedom to worship (and NOT to worship) we deserve. We don't get the health care we deserve. We don't get the renewable energy we deserve. I think this is because we aren't given the information we deserve.

It seems to me that the modern conservative movement treats the general American public like children. Because Americans can't raise their kids properly, they should have to pray in school. Because American women can't handle the responsibility of choice, they shouldn't be allowed to have abortions under almost any circumstances. Because some Americans are so strange and misguided that they have become attracted to members of their own sex, they should be denied the rights of heterosexuals until they clean up their loathsome act. I can't make myself see the logic in this last one. If marriage is so sacred, where's McCain's first wife? If family is so important, where is Cindy's half-sister and why does she keep referring to herself as an only child?

I believe that, if given enough information, Americans can make good choices. I think two daddies can have a perfectly normal life with a functional, sane, and well-adjusted child. I think atheists can be kind and generous. Every time I'm stuck in traffic in Atlanta or Birmingham or Boston, I am happy that abortion (and birth control) hasn't yet been outlawed. Sounds rough, I know, but how many people do we really need?

Are these the real issues, though? Maybe the help we need isn't in decision making, but in the creation of opportunity. Will pouring money (tax-cuts) on the top really cause the divide between rich and poor to reduce it's size? I don't know. I'm not an economist. I do know of, however, a lot of beat-up trailers with McCain signs in their front yard. These folks had Bush signs in their front yards a few years ago. Reagan signs when the trailers were new and shiny. I think the irony is lost. I think these people, for the most part, vote with bibles in hand while they starve to death. You might be able to roll a joint with that rice paper, but you can't eat it. Meanwhile the same government they support waits for the surplus to trickle down. We need a steady stream, not a trickle.

I'm going to vote for the man who doesn't hug W. in public. I'm going to vote for the man who Rudy Giuliani can't stand. I can't stand Rudy Giuliani. He mocks hope. Maybe Obama doesn't have a lot of experience. Neither did Thatcher. Maybe he has a strange name that sounds somewhat foreign. I'm not scared by that. I look at Obama, I listen to him speak, and I trust him. More importantly than that, I think he trusts us. I think he believes in our decision-making ability. Hopefully that will continue.

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Music

Heart to McCain/Palin: Back off on 'Barracuda' - Sound Effects - Boston.com

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Album leak welcomed by Metallica

Popularity of a Hallucinogen May Thwart Its Medical Uses - NYTimes.com

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Film

My grad school best bud R. Keith Harris in yet another Southern based film:

"A Brush With Murder" Trailer

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