Sonically, Drive-By Truckers are like Neil Young’s Crazy Horse, Exile-era Stones, the Replacements and Whiskeytown loaded into a blender set on Puree; they’re a crunchy-guitar band with country chord changes and lyrical songs that rise like molasses through the murk.
Patterson Hood has been one of the band’s two singing, songwriting frontmen since the earliest days; he and fellow guitarist Mike Cooley played together while students at the University of Alabama. Their band (Adam’s House Cat) broke up, and the two like-minded amigos met again in Athens – Georgia’s hotbed of hipster musicality – and created Drive-By Truckers in 1996.
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