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ATO Records is pleased to announce the release of The Drive-By Truckers' label debut, The Big To-Do. The album, which will be the band's tenth in their thirteen-year career, is scheduled to be released March 16, 2010. The Big To-Do features thirteen new tracks from the Drive-By Truckers 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.'

Hood and Mike Cooley continue to be the chief songwriters of the group, continuing a musical partnership that has lasted over twenty-three 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) round out the current Drive-By Truckers lineup.

The band recently backed legendary R&B musician Booker T. Jones on his critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated album Potato Hole. The album is nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

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

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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS SIGN TO ATO RECORDS, RELEASE NEW ALBUM

Published on: 12/10/09
http://www.jambase.com/Articles/20803/D ... March-2010



"Drive-By Truckers are the best rock band in America." CNN.com

ATO Records is pleased to announce the signing of Drive-By Truckers and their label debut, The Big To-Do. The album, which will be the band's tenth in their thirteen-year career, is scheduled to be released March 16, 2010. The Big To-Do features thirteen new tracks from the Drive-By Truckers 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 Truckers' 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 band during 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."

Hood and Mike Cooley continue to be the chief songwriters of the group, continuing a musical partnership that has lasted over twenty-three 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) round out the current Drive-By Truckers lineup.

The band recently backed legendary R&B musician, Booker T. Jones, on his critically acclaimed, Grammy-nominated album, Potato Hole. The album is nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album and Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

The Drive-By Truckers will be hitting the road at the beginning of the new year. A full tour supporting The Big To-Do will be announced in early 2010.

Drive-By Truckers on tour:
1/14 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club
1/15 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club
1/16 Athens, GA 40 Watt Club
1/28 Huntsville, AL Crossroads Music Hall
1/29 Mobile, AL Soul Kitchen
1/30 Tuscaloosa, AL Jupiter Bar & Grill
2/11 Greenville, SC Handlebar
2/12 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theatre
2/13 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theatre
2/14 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre
2/25 Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theatre
2/26 Charlottesville, VA Jefferson Theatre
2/27 Charlottesville, VA Jefferson Theatre

http://www.drivebytruckers.com

The greatest band in all the land.

Between Patterson & Co. and Gov't Mule, I accrue a lot of flyer miles. Now they're labelmates!

Man! First Hold Steady, now the DBTs!! Awesome. And note: this is how you do it, these bands have at least released something in the last 18 months...timing like that instills fan loyalty, rather than having them fad away in the back.
Now, if I scroll down and see that the Mule, Wilco or Bottlerockets have something up their sleeves shortly, I will be completely immersed in my contemporary-music-that-I-love soup.

O.K., NoURider... how cool ARE U? Would love your opinion of the new Bottle Rockets ("Lean Forward" - their best since "Brand New Year", IMO), and the mighty mighty Mule ("By A Thread"). All my fav acts are coming on long and strong recently.

Me too.

Perhaps an ATO artists showcase tour is a good idea?

Saw this review at allmusic - certainly has me jazzed...



In his liner notes to the Drive-By Truckers' eighth studio album, The Big To-Do, bandleader Patterson Hood uses running away to join the circus as a metaphor for a variety of hopes, dreams, and ambitions, adding "I never really was all that into the circus as a kid, but I sure was into the Rock Show, which was sort of The Circus for kids of my generation." There's plenty of truth to that line, but while running off to chase the Big Top usually means escaping the realities of adult responsibility, Hood and his bandmates have become all the more willing to deal with the home truths of just getting by as they've become more successful, and The Big To-Do may be their most intense look yet into the messy realities of life in post-millennial America. In The Big To-Do, the Truckers sing about people trying to make sense of a world that's seemingly turned against them — a young boy whose father has abandoned the family ("Daddy Learned to Fly"), a man who has lost a bad job and is struggling to support his family ("This Fucking Job"), a wife confronting her unfaithful husband ("You Got Another"), an alcoholic who can barely remember the wreckage he's left behind ("The Fourth Night of My Drinking"), and a father trying to figure out what lessons he can pass along to his children ("Eyes Like Glue"). The Big To-Do is a subtle but genuine step forward from 2008's Brighter Than Creation's Dark, but while that album dug deep into the darker undercurrents of its songs, The Big To-Do resembles Bruce Springsteen's The River in that its stories of folks under punishing circumstances are married to music that tries to find some sort of grace and honor in the struggle without dulling the lyrical impact. And the Drive-By Truckers are one band good enough to make this conceit work — "The Fourth Night of My Drinking" is a ravaged tale, but the melody builds some compassion for its doomed protagonist, and the anthemic "This Fucking Job" brings out the bravery in characters pushed to the wall but determined to get through. And just as Hood's songs are as painfully honest as any he's written, the two tales of broken hearts contributed by Shonna Tucker add another, equally powerful perspective to the album, and Mike Cooley contributes three absolute winners, including the album's bittersweet closing number "Eyes Like Glue." The Drive-By Truckers have been the best and smartest hard rock band in America for a while now, but with The Big To-Do they also confirm they're one of the bravest, and they've created a triumphant album out of songs in which folks are forced to look failure square in the eye.

uhm...sorry, did not see this, till now.
My opinions regarding these two are high, but not very articulate, as it has been some time since I listened. Henneman is in my top five of contemporary songwriters, he manages to put flesh on the bones of a sterotype in lesser hands, and nails the complexity of the common man (who is none too common). Boy Next Door is a great song (one of many).

Warren Hayes, IMO, can do little wrong. I was glad to see the move back to a core band in the last couple of releases. I do like By A Thread a lot, but need to listen to it a few more times, to have it engrained in my head like High and Mighty

This abum kicks all kinds of ass.

I have to agree, another winner by the 'Truckers...