DBT Week in Review - 1/14/11

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Read the rest of Beantownbubba's inspired post about last night's Rock Show at 3DD:

Three Dimes Down • View topic - Athens January 13, 14 & 15 2011

The fourth floor of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris houses the greatest collection of impressionist art in the world. It's not even close. To my knowledge, there is no second place. I have had the good fortune and privilege to spend a fair amount of time there across a number of visits and every visit since my first has been somewhat similar:

First there is the sense of being in the presence of greatness. Of seeing things that represent the finest in the human spirit and the greatest aspects of our evolution. But after a while it's just overwhelming. The eyes, the mind just can't process any more, just doesn't compute. One monet starts to blend into another. And along w/ the highest high, that feeling of a supreme aesthetic experience , comes a kind of depression.

There is the knowledge that no matter what i do, i will never achieve a single moment of brilliance that approaches even the average of these great artists. That the very best i can do is simply ordinary. There is the certain knowledge that i will never touch people, move people, reach people in any way remotely like what these artists did routinely. I am not w/out ambition or w/out ego. Nor am i w/out talent. So this realization is, like i said, depressing, even amid the celebration, the glory, the rush of being surrounded by greatness and wondrousness.

Tonight was kind of like that. ...

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The Go-Go Boots Episodes - Episode 2 - Drive-By Truckers from Drive-By Truckers on Vimeo.

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Cartoon Gold - Acoustic - Go-Go Boots - Drive-By Truckers from Drive-By Truckers on Vimeo.

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The Go-Go Boots Episodes - Episode 3 - Drive-By Truckers from Drive-By Truckers on Vimeo.

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I Hear You Hummin - Acoustic - Go-Go Boots - Drive-By Truckers from Drive-By Truckers on Vimeo.

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Fricke's Picks: A Personal Top 10 | Rolling Stone Music | Alternate Take by David Fricke:

"The Drive-By Truckers, The Big To-Do (ATO)
When these Southern avengers ripped into 'This Fucking Job' in New York last spring, it was with the righteous incandescent anger and mutinous �lan that have made the Truckers the most dangerous cult band in America. It's time they got the breaks and lost the 'cult.'"

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Anderson Hood, member of DBT.

REEL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2011: The Secret to a Happy Ending: A Documentary About the Drive-by Truckers — Saturday | Oregon Music News:

"David Hood, the house bass player describes his crew as “just some average-looking guys doing unusual things.” And so when Hood’s son, Anderson, turned out to be “not quite like the others” he wasn’t discouraged from letting his unusual habit of writing, constantly writing songs and poems—even if it meant that very little schoolwork got done."

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Several new screenings listed for the DBT documentary:

The Secret to a Happy Ending

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Features: The Drive-By Truckers' Jay Gonzalez - Flagpole Magazine: Colorbearer of Athens, GA

Drive-By Truckers at Brighton Concorde 2 - a set on Flickr

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DBTweets

Twitter / Gary Parrish: @rodneylipps Seen the @dri ...:

"@rodneylipps Seen the @drivebytruckers many times. I use Carl Perkins' Cadillac on my radio show."

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William Kitty, III (LionelKitty3rd) on Twitter:

"@drivebytruckers I've put more squirrels in the ground than AL laid CottonSeed; tell my lames ass 'rents to bring me w/ them to the Lyric"

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Ready Sophomore Album | American Songwriter

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Music

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Broadcast singer Trish Keenan dies of swine flu after contracting disease in Australia | Mail Online

Alabama in the spotlight: We join others in yearlong celebration of music-makers | al.com

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A 'Conversation'

Yes, we should continue to compromise our values for these bat-shit insane people.

This tragedy will assuredly spur Democrats to cave even more in the spirit of... fuck if I know, but I'm positive on the additional caving. Wish I was joking. Not.

Unfriending Rage

Preach it, David Lowery. Preach it.

Why you should Unfriend Me. A Raging Moderate's Manifesto: Let's drop the F-Bomb.:

"Yes it's time for us moderates to get uncivilized."

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William Rivers Pitt | The Wrath of Fools: An Open Letter to the Far Right:

"You who worship Jesus at the top of your lungs (in defiance of Christ's own teachings on the matter of worship, by the way) helped put several churchgoers into their graves and into the hospital. You who shriek about the sanctity of marriage helped cut down a man who was about to be married. You who crow with ceaseless abandon about military service and the nobility of our fighting forces helped to critically wound the wife of a Naval aviator who fought for you in a war. You who hold September 11 as your sword and shield helped put a little girl born on that day into the ground.

You helped. Yes, damn you, you helped."

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Some good news:

Tom DeLay Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison

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Delicate Flowers

Congrats, Auburn Tigers on the NC win. Fun game to watch. Five in a row for the SEC.

Dyer, Tigers reaffirm SEC’s stranglehold - College Football - Rivals.com

However, any dumbass coach or player who attributes a win to their 'god' really doesn't understand that concept. By making such a statement you are implying that your 'god' did not favor the opposing team. Your 'god' chooses sides'. Your 'god' is kinda a dick, then.

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Guns don't kill people. It is the bullets that come out of the guns. Duh.

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Bloodshed and Invective in Arizona - NYTimes.com:

"It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members. But it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats, setting the nation on edge. Many on the right have exploited the arguments of division, reaping political power by demonizing immigrants, or welfare recipients, or bureaucrats. They seem to have persuaded many Americans that the government is not just misguided, but the enemy of the people."

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If, again, the most devastating attack he can muster is a finger wag, not much is going to fucking change.

Republicans must laugh themselves to sleep every night over how easy it is to roll OA+Dems.

Obama to GOP: Stop the ‘symbolic battles’ in Congress | Raw Story:

"WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama urged newly empowered Republicans on Saturday not to wage 'symbolic battles' against him but to instead work together to help spur job growth and economic recovery."

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When Do We Fight Back?

If the good guys do not start fighting back in a very meaningful way, we'll all have bullets in our heads before too long.

Repeat after me "Both Sides DO NOT do these types of things". Blood is on the hand of every conservative in this country.

Dems will 'nice' us all to death.

Arizona Rep. Giffords shot, 6 killed in rampage - Yahoo! News:

"During his campaign effort to unseat Giffords in November, Republican challenger Jesse Kelly held fundraisers where he urged supporters to help remove Giffords from office by joining him to shoot a fully loaded M-16 rifle. Kelly is a former Marine who served in Iraq and was pictured on his website in military gear holding his automatic weapon and promoting the event.

'I don't see the connection,' between the fundraisers featuring weapons and Saturday's shooting, said John Ellinwood, Kelly's spokesman."

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Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service for death threats against Barack Obama - Telegraph:

"Sarah Palin's attacks on Barack Obama's patriotism provoked a spike in death threats against the future president, Secret Service agents revealed during the final weeks of the campaign."

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Daily Kos: Bone-chilling prescience from Matt Taibbi

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Look at the related posts.

ThinkProgress � Home Page: "Related Posts:

* Rand Paul Supporters Drag MoveOn Supporter To Ground And Stomp on Her Head
* Republican House Candidate Calls For Violent Government Overthrow If GOP Loses Election
* Self-Described ‘Christian Counterpart To Osama Bin Laden’ Arrested In Plot To Bomb Abortion Clinic
* Boehner Admits Some Tea Party Attendees ‘Want To Kill All Of Us In Public Office’
* Tea Party Sells ‘America’s Most Wanted’ Playing Cards With Pictures Of Federal Lawmakers
* GOP congressman: Palin’s ‘reload’ map with crosshairs targeted at House Democrats is ‘inappropriate.’
* Vandals hit at least five Dem offices nationwide, threaten to ‘assassinate’ children of pro-reform lawmakers.
* Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist
* Rep. King Justifies Suicide Attack On IRS: Sympathizes With Hatred Of IRS, Hopes For Its Destruction
* GOP congressional candidate pretends to shoot at Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
* REPORT: ‘We Will Overthrow The Government’ — Calls For Violence Repeatedly Stoked By Conservative Voices
* FBI Arrests White Supremacist Blogger Hal Turner For Threatening To Kill Federal Judges
* DHS Report: After Obama’s Election, Right-Wing Extremists ‘May Be Gaining New Recruits’"

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DBT Week in Review - 1/7/11

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Drive-By Truckers @ Brooklyn Bowl�|�TheMST.com | The Music Street Team:

"Given the desolate location, terrible sight lines, and cavernous Thunder Dome-esque space of Terminal 5, it would have been worth it to buy tickets to the New Year’s Eve show just to get tickets to the Brooklyn Bowl show, and skip the Terminal 5 show entirely. Unless you really love the Drive-By Truckers. And given the crowd reaction at Brooklyn Bowl, it didn’t seem like many of the fans planned on skipping a Drive-By Truckers show. Ever."

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Top 10 Albums Of 2010, by Paul Shirley:

"I could make the case (once again, to myself, because, once again, no one else would care to hear the argument) that the Drive-By Truckers managed to write my favorite AND second-favorite songs of the year, with “Birthday Boy” and “This F*cking Job”.

But I could be talked down from that position; those two songs might only be my third-favorite and fifth-favorite of the year. However, there is one thing of which I am positive: the Truckers wrote my favorite stanza of the year. From “Birthday Boy”, which is written from the perspective of a world-weary stripper:

“Got a girlfriend, don’t you, boy,

Nervous hands can’t lie,

Married men don’t ask how much,

Single ones ain’t buying.”

Even now, after something like 1,795 listens this year, the song gives me the chills; the Drive-By Truckers’ ability to cut to the heart of the human condition is one of the great musical revelations of the 21st century.

Drive By Truckers: Incisive."

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Deano Bravo's Modern Life

Drive-By Truckers Rock Brooklyn Bowl � brooklynbelles

Yfrog Photo : Good Dog

Picture This: � Blog Archive � 1. DBT on NYE in the NYC 2010/2011

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1 hour of the Rock Show from Spain this summer. Give it a minute to load.

TVE a la CARTA

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Justin Townes Earl w/Jason Isbell



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Elliot McPherson - Dexateens

Ram it, Jam it, Five Questions with The Dexateens' Elliott McPherson:

"EM: The best talent in Tuscaloosa is by far URI Horton. URI is unique and completely out of the box. He is sort of the godfather of the Tuscaloosa rap scene, but instead of being content with that, he has broadened his horizons and taken his craft to the stage with a band."

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Centro-matic



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Glossary

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David Lowery from Cracker



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Music

Bob Masse Studios

Pitchfork: Listen: Two New R.E.M. Songs:

"Alternative nation luminaries R.E.M. will release Collapse Into Now, their new album, on March 8 (March 7 in the UK) via Warner Bros. On their website, they've already debuted the opening track, 'Discoverer'. More recently, the band shared a lyric video for their Eddie Vedder collaboration 'It Happened Today'; you can watch that below. And on the NPR website, you can now stream another song from the album, the scaled-back ballad 'Oh My Heart'."

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OMB Staff – Best Albums Of 2010 | Oxford Music Blog

BBC News - Pink Floyd end EMI legal dispute

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I snagged the following via Velena V. on Facebook. This weird lump thing occurs in my throat when I watch. Weird.

Also, he plays the git-tar upside down.

Click over and read about him and his daughters.

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Crab Boil

Not so wild kingdom.

Mass bird and fish deaths becoming worldwide phenomenon | Raw Story:

"Update: 40,000 crabs have been found dead on England beaches."

Also, on the same beach a 300 gallon vat of clarified butter along with 3000 empty Corona bottles were discovered.

Seriously, doh, this could be a problem or it could be a bored media connecting dots that don't connect.

Never know these days... until it is too late, then how could anyone have predicted. Lawdy.

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'Chupacabra' Mystery Solved? Strange Animal Identified In Kentucky (VIDEO)

I've seen many a raccoon and this is one ugly raccoon if so, but....

"There's just no way around it.' When Mark Cothern spotted this bizarre creature in his yard, he shot it. Pictures of the animal spread like wildfire, as many fans eagerly thought it could be a chupacabra."

Chupacabra receives cult, mythical status in Mexico.

Chupacabra receives both barrels in Kentucky and almost made it to the stew pot (I'm betting).

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United State of California.

We build big shit, thus employing a lot of people:

The new Bay Bridge tower as seen from the - Media (1 of 22) Bay Bridge's new tower starts to rise

Granted, the steel comes from China because the nobody else does big shit in the U.S. anymore.

We are serious about protecting our environment.

California Cap And Trade Rules: Sweeping Regulations Set To Be Adopted:

"'AB32 was passed primarily to fill the vacuum created by the failure of Congress to pass any kind of climate or energy legislation for many years now,' said Mary Nichols, the air board's chairwoman. 'The goal was to lead by example, and being a leader you have to bring others along with you.'

California's cap-and-trade rules would set up the largest U.S. carbon trading market as the way to enforce the state's gradually tightening cap on emissions."

We are getting out of the damn car, too:

Calif. Amtrak ridership rising on state trains:

"'As I go around the country talking about Amtrak, I say we can't add trains fast enough in California,' said Marc Magliari, a national Amtrak spokesman in Chicago. 'That strikes people who believe California is the land of the car.'"

We also elect real Democrats who run the joint.

Be more like California, the rest of you.

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Suspicious Bagel

Again, thank jeebus for Matt Tiabbi. Our national discourse is flooded with these faux-Democratic 'moderate' pseudo-long-view, clueless-what-pragmatic-actually-means, status quo fluffers.

As long as they got there's, they'll spew any stupid shit imaginable in order to hold onto that shit.

Matt Bai's Post-Partisanship | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy:

"Bai is one of those guys -- there are hundreds of them in this business -- who poses as a wonky, Democrat-leaning 'centrist' pundit and then makes a career out of drubbing 'unrealistic' liberals and progressives with cartoonish Jane Fonda and Hugo Chavez caricatures. This career path is so well-worn in our business, it's like a Great Silk Road of pseudoleft punditry. First step: graduate Harvard or Columbia, buy some clothes at Urban Outfitters, shore up your socially liberal cred by marching in a gay rights rally or something, then get a job at some place like the American Prospect. Then once you're in, spend a few years writing wonky editorials gently chiding Jane Fonda liberals for failing to grasp the obvious wisdom of the WTC or whatever Bob Rubin/Pete Peterson Foundation deficit-reduction horseshit the Democratic Party chiefs happen to be pimping at the time. Once you've got that down, you just sit tight and wait for the New York Times or the Washington Post to call. It won't be long."

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If your fellow passengers are a bunch of terrified teabaggers, you might be an American.

Florida Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a Plane | NBC Miami:

"A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a suspicious package in the overhead compartment.

That 'suspicious package' turned out to be keys, a bagel with cream cheese and a hat.

Ognjen Milatovic, 35, was flying from Boston to Washington D.C. on US Airways when he was escorted off the plane for disorderly conduct following the incident.

Monday's incident is another example of other passengers essentially becoming the authority on terrorist activity on planes."

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Nothing to see here folks, but we should pre-emptively give bailouts to all chemical factories within a 1000 mile radius.

Dead Birds Fall From Sky AGAIN In Louisiana, 300 Miles From Arkansas Incident Days Earlier

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Since we have been discussing dicks today.....

Indiana Snow Penises Given Generous Local News Coverage (VIDEO)

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Sailing. Takes Me Away....

Very cool. This will be a site to behold and free seating around the entire bay:

San Francisco selected to host America's Cup:

"Rather than holding the races miles off shore, which was the case in Valencia and in Newport, where the Cup was held from 1930 to 1983, San Francisco Bay offers a natural amphitheater. Spectators in Financial District high rises, along Crissy Field, on Angel Island and in the Marin Headlands will be able to view the action."

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An excellent economic read for those of us who need economic info to be simplified. Extremely comprehensive.

Daily Kos: Why the rich get richer and poor get poorer

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Obama is gonna hire his next chief of staff from JPMorgan. You tell me if Obama will stand up to The Big Lie. Hard to stand up to something when you are behind pushing it.

Robert Reich: The Big Lie:

"The truth is our economic problems stem from the biggest concentration of income and wealth at the top since 1928, combined with stagnant incomes for most of the rest of us. The result: Americans no longer have the purchasing power to keep the economy going at full capacity. Since the debt bubble burst, most Americans have had to reduce their spending; they need to repay their debts, can't borrow as before, and must save for retirement.

The short-term solution is for government to counteract this shortfall by spending more, not less. The long-term solution is to spread the benefits of economic growth more widely (for example, through a more progressive income tax, a larger EITC, an exemption on the first $20K of income from payroll taxes and application of payroll taxes to incomes over $250K, stronger unions, and more and better investments in education and infrastructure.)

But instead of telling the truth, Obama has legitimized the Big Lie by freezing non-defense discretionary spending, freezing federal pay, touting his deficit commission co-chairs' recommended $3 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increase, and agreeing to extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

Will Obama stand up to the Big Lie? Will he use his State of the Union address to rebut it and tell the truth? Maybe, but so far there's no evidence."

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"We like everything convenient". Even our orgasms.

Alabama Sex Toy Drive-Thru Business on the Rise - CBS News:

"'It's been doing well, and really well on nights when it's cold or rainy,' said employee Toni Kennedy. 'Discretion and the ease of it are big, and convenience. We're Americans. We like everything convenient.'"

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DBT Week(s) in Review - 1/3/11

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Ken Tucker's Top 10 Albums Of 2010 : NPR

The 11 Top Albums for 2010 - MJwycha - Open Salon

No Expiration - a blog about timeless music: BEST OF 2010 - #1! - THE DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS "THE BIG TO-DO"

SOMETHING ELSE!: The Best of 2010, Part 1: The Mainstream

Three Dimes Down • View topic - The Night Before Christmas

'Drive-By Truckers' on roll for show | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/31/2010

No Expiration - a blog about timeless music: THE DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS AT BKLYN BOWL - LET THERE BE ROCK!:

"I have seen the present of rock and roll, and it is The Drive-By Truckers. I'm not even kidding. They're not punk, metal, 'alternative,' 'indie' or anything else. They are rock and roll. There aren't too many bands like that today."

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No Depression Readers Poll and Featured Bloggers' Favorite Albums of 2010 - Americana and roots music - No Depression:

"From those entries, we compiled a giant masterlist and plugged the top 100-or-so most-listed albums into a polling widget. As it turned out, the widget was imperfect - it only allowed one vote at a time, and raised some questions about voting consistency and the widget's reliability. Some members of this community noted the widget seemed to be getting 'stuffed' by fans of artists who encouraged their Facebook friends and Twitter followers to vote for their album. While this struck us as frustrating at first, we figured we may as well throw those gates open and make it a free-for-all. In an effort to see what would happen if many of the artists listed in that Top 100 (or so) list leveraged their fanbases, Kyla sent emails to the management and labels of as many artists for whom she had contacts, encouraging them to also post a link on Facebook and Twitter. Some of them joined in the fun, others didn't. In the end, the results of that round of polling seemed to more adequately reflect the ability and interest of several artists to leverage their social media presence and ignite the enthusiasm of their fans."

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11 Picks For Early 2011 - Americana and roots music - No Depression:

"Drive By Truckers: Go Go Boots. On the heels, literally of The Big To-Do, The Truckers are kicking of 2011 with a bang. They are returning with a new album, a band documentary called The Secret To A Happy Ending, and embarking on an upcoming tour. Go Go Boots has been described as a 'country meets rhythm and blues' kind of album. Check out Bettye LaVette's excellent Scene Of The Crime, which featured the Truckers as LaVette's backing band, and you'll get an idea of where this is going. (2/15/2011)"

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Slobberbone



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Jason Isbell - Drivin N Cryin

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Vic Chesnutt

Remembering Vic from scott stuckey on Vimeo.

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DOWNLOAD: Black Keys & Big Boi Mashup! | SPIN.com

Merle Haggard: Obama 'Very Different' Than Media's Portrayal | TPM LiveWire

Finally, Local Community Radio Act Was Passed Saturday. Time For A Media Revolution! | Crooks and Liars

Fake article prompts NYC mosque opponents to boycott Justin Bieber | Raw Story

Friends: 8 killed in NO fire musicians, artists - Yahoo! News

Concert prices to fall as rockers try to woo fans

Memoirs By Dead Rock Stars We Wish We Could Have Read (PHOTOS)

BBC News - Don Van Vliet, aka 'Captain Beefheart', dies aged 69

Teena Marie, known as 'Ivory Queen of Soul,' dies - Yahoo! News

And I don't care what you say, this is the jam:

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