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| Category: | Concert |
| Promoter: | The Neighborhood Theatre |
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Drive-By Truckers make their Neighborhood Theatre debut, this is a band that was made to be heard live and loud. With three guitars that can take lead and three lead vocalists, this band can maintain a higher energy level than most mortals. They rock with an intensity and consistency rarely seen and can manage to stay melodic while blowing the roof off. Rolling Stone called the Drive-By Truckers the boldest n baddest Southern band in the land. On their nine highly acclaimed albums the Truckers survey the modern South with a complex blend of realism-tempered pride and compassionate but uncompromising analysis. They recently released their entire Austin City Limits performance as a CD/DVD and The Fine Print (A Collection Of Oddities and Rarities). Sons of Bill opens |
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| Drive-By Truckers | Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country and Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia, though three out of five members (Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood, and Shonna Tucker) are originally from The Shoals region of Northern Alabama. Their music is noteworthy for its "three axe attack", or three guitars as well as bass and drums. 2007 was a year of transition and reinvention for our band, having been on the road almost constantly since the fall of 2001 a break was desperately needed. A little time at home to recharge and perhaps rethink some things. The blurring of the lines between the personal and the musical has always been an integral part of what this band does and part of what sets it apart from the corporate music machines that dominate so much of pop-culture in the name of what used to be called Rock and Roll. That said, when things go wrong it can become an unbearable situation on levels both personal and artistic. Such is what led to the amicable and mutually desired parting of ways with Jason Isbell in the spring of 2007. He had been an integral part of our musical family for five years and three albums but personal and creative differences brought about the need for change. Moving .. such a loss seemed at first a daunting challenge. Our bands survival instincts (much of what has kept mine and Mike Cooleys partnership alive and well for 22+ years) led us to strip everything down to the essential elements of song and rebuild it from scratch. This led to us booking and playing a semi-acoustic tour we named The Dirt Underneath where we would go out without all of the trappings and decorations of The Big Rock Show and put the emphasis on the songs and stories. It also gave us a chance to acquaint everyone with our dear friend John Neff. Neff was a founding member of our band who continued to play on our albums from time to time and he became a full-time part of the touring band a couple of years ago. Hes an excellent guitar player but is best known for his amazing pedal steel abilities. His playing has graced acclaimed albums by Japancakes, The Star Room Boys, Barbara Cue and Lona among many others. During some troubled times, Johns playing was one of the few things we could all agree on. |
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| Sons of Bill | Sons of Bill have been satisfying appetites up and down the East Coast for three years. They put their opening songs out in the spring of 2006 on an album called A Far Cry From Freedom, and sold 8,000 copies of it off the stage. Along the way, they signed with Red Light Management, the Charlottesville, Virginia, firm which handles the Dave Matthews Band, the Decemberists, Cheap Trick, and several dozen other artists. That may have something to do with storied producer Jim Scott (Rick Rubins long-time engineer, producer for Wilco, Whiskeytown, and Tom Petty, among others) signing on for One Town Away, but Jim Scott doesnt have to do anything he doesnt want to do. We just kind of took a wild shot, James says on a borrowed cell phone, driving around Charlottesville trying to get ready for a show. Were committed to staying away from the big labels, and so we saved our pennies from playing frat parties and stuff, and we just sent him our demos. He called us up, and said, Im going to produce the new Wilco album, but I got three weeks. Can you get out to California? And so we got on a plane. It was really pretty simple. And it is a pretty straight-forward album, at that. Were a five-piece band, James says. We told him we wanted to sound like a band in a room. We didnt want to sound like we were getting shot out of a digital projector. Everythings hard panned. My guitars on one side, Sams guitar is on the other side. It sounds like a band. Almost no compression, no auto tune on the whole record. Scott did bring in the famed guitarist Greg Leisz to add some steel guitar lines to four tracks. Hes was a real searcher, and really searched for the right parts, James says. Thats him and Sam doing dueling guitars on Rock And Roll. (Yes, it rocks; and, yes, James took pictures of the occasion.) |
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