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Athens’ Drivin n Cryin at Rock Brothers Friday

Bill DeYoung

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Drivin n Cryin, with Kevn Kinney, second from left. Publicity photo.

Hot on the heels of last weekend’s solo shows from Patterson Hood of the great Georgia rock ‘n’ roll band Drive-By Truckers, the Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing (Tampa) has one of the other great Georgia rock ‘n’ roll bands, Drivin n Cryin, Friday night.

This is especially coincidental because Kevn Kinney, the founder and longtime singing, songwriting frontman of D&C, has a brand-new solo album out this week, his first in more than a decade. It’s called Think About It, and among its guest players are Peter Buck and Bill Berry of R.E.M. – another Athens-based band you might’ve heard of – Sturgill Simpson, and Brad Morgan of Drive-By Truckers.

Says Kinney of the album, written during and after the worst of the pandemic: “The whole record is a Jim Jarmusch black-and-white soundtrack to being lonely, and just sitting on a park bench by yourself—all the conversations we have with ourselves while sitting alone waiting to do things, doing our best to be our best, and wondering, ‘Am I in touch with my ego? Am I in touch with who I think I am? With who I thought I was gonna be? Is this the payoff? Is the payoff coming? What even is that, and where do I stand in the world?”

Kinney will take part in R.E.M.’s  40th Anniversary of Chronic Town Celebration in Athens Dec. 15, alongside Black Crowes Rich and Chris Robinson, Saturday Night Live alum Fred Armisen, David Cross, John Cameron Mitchell and others.

Tickets for Friday’s Drivin n Cryin show – the first stop on a a three-Florida-city tour – are here.

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