When I went to see Drive-By Truckers’ guitarist Mike Cooley’s solo show in Chapel Hill last year, the audience was a problem. Which is to say they were in large part less of an audience and more of a bunch of people standing around expecting Cooley to provide background music to their conversations, to the point where the man had to tell people to ( Read more... )

It's a lyric from the song "World of Hurt", and also the title of a documentary on the Drive-By Truckers.  Saw the film tonight in the company of the esteemed Badger at the Pinhook tonight, in the company of roughly fifty other DBT devotees of various stripes and affinities. Lots of mesh trucker hats worn unironically, a few worn ironically. ( Read more... )

Enjoyed the hell out of the outdoor concert down in front of the Lincoln Theater last night. The Truckers didn't come on until nearly dark and most of the wine-sippers watching the festivities from their condo balconies had given up on the night. I'd estimate there were a couple of hundred people in the street proper, graybeards in Jerry Garcia t- ( Read more... )

In no particular order:

• Snow
• Pound cake (homemade)
• The Drive-By Truckers
• Good BBQ
• Zardoz