DRIVE BY TRUCKERS Sign to ATO Records

MUSIC NEWS - Our friends at ATO Records announced they've signed of Drive-By Truckers and their label debut, The Big To-Do. The album, which marks the group’s 10th album in their 13 year (so far) career, is due for a March 16, 2010 release. The Big To-Do will feature thirteen new tracks from the Drive By Truckerss and was produced by their long time producer, David Barbe (Sugar, Bettye LaVette). “It’s very much a rock album,” says Patterson Hood of the Trucker’s upcoming release. “Very melodic and more rocking than anything we’ve done since disc 2 of Southern Rock Opera.”

 

The inspiration for The Big To-Do came to the group from their time on the road. “We’ve often set our songs and albums in different periods of time, but this one finds us directly in our present. Riding all through the highways of America (and Europe) trying to make sense of a very different world than the one we grew up in,” says Hood. “I don’t write a lot of songs on the road, but I did more than usual on this album and many more were inspired by or set there, either in a literal sense or something I witnessed or heard about while I was out there.”

 

(Photo  Erika Goldring )

LtoR: Jay Gonzalez, Brad Morgan, Patterson Hood, Shonna Tucker, Mike Cooley, John Neff

 

 

Hood and Mike Cooley remain the chief songwriters of the group, continuing a musical partnership that has worked well for over 23 years. Bassist, Shonna Tucker, flexes her songwriting muscles once again by contributing two original songs to the album. Brad Morgan (drums), John Neff (guitar/pedal steel) and Jay Gonzalez  (keyboards) complete the current Drive-By Truckers lineup.

 

The Drive-By Truckers will be back on the road at the start of 2010, with afull tour to support The Big To-Do announcing in early 2010.

 

The Big To-Do Tracklisting:
1. Daddy Learned to Fly
2. The Fourth Night of My Drinking
3. Birthday Boy
4. Drag the Lake Charlie
5. The Wig He Made Her Wear
6. You Got Another
7. This Fucking Job
8. Get Downtown
9. After the Scene Dies
10. (It’s Gonna Be) I Told You So
11. Santa Fe
12. The Flying Wallendas
13. Eyes Like Glue
14. Girls Who Smoke (Bonus track – vinyl only)

 

Drive-By Truckers on tour:
January

28 Huntsville, AL  Crossroads Music Hall
29 Mobile, AL     Soul Kitchen
30 Tuscaloosa, AL  Jupiter Bar & Grill
February

11 Greenville, SC   Handlebar
12 & 13 Raleigh, NC    Lincoln Theatre
14 Knoxville, TN    Bijou Theatre
25 Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theatre
26 & 27  Charlottesville, VA  Jefferson Theatre