Southern Rock Opera or The Dirty South? Ask any Drive-By Truckers fan to name the band’s recorded masterpiece and you’ll likely get a spirited debate. On Tuesday, the group makes their own case for the latter with the announcement of a massive package titled The Complete Dirty South. Due June 16, The Complete Dirty South revisits the 2004 concept album about the South and its complicated figures with bonus tracks, remixed songs, and even new vocals on “Puttin’ People on the Moon” and “The Sands of Iwo Jima.” (The group...
- 4/11/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Drive-By Truckers have announced a new reissue of their 2004 album The Dirty South. Titled The Complete Dirty South, the LP will arrive on June 16th via New West Records, and it includes a remixed version of “Puttin’ People on the Moon” with new vocals that’s now available as a first listen. Stream it below.
The Complete Dirty South resequences and expands the album to its originally intended 17-song tracklist with three bonus songs and includes four remixes — two of which feature newly updated vocals. The LP was remastered by Greg Calbi, who’s known for his work on classic albums by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Blondie, and more.
Plus, it comes with a 32-page booklet featuring original and new liner notes written by Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood; track by track descriptions written by Hood, Mike Cooley, and Jason Isbell; never-before-seen photos; and new artwork by the late Wes Freed.
The Complete Dirty South resequences and expands the album to its originally intended 17-song tracklist with three bonus songs and includes four remixes — two of which feature newly updated vocals. The LP was remastered by Greg Calbi, who’s known for his work on classic albums by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Blondie, and more.
Plus, it comes with a 32-page booklet featuring original and new liner notes written by Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood; track by track descriptions written by Hood, Mike Cooley, and Jason Isbell; never-before-seen photos; and new artwork by the late Wes Freed.
- 4/11/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Wes Freed, the visual artist whose surreal Southern-gothic images of shadowy figures, ominous owls, and black flamingos adorned album covers by Drive-By Truckers, has died at 58. Freed was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in January and a GoFundMe campaign was underway to help pay for his treatment. The band’s publicist confirmed Freed’s death to Rolling Stone.
The Richmond, Virginia-based Freed, who attended art school at Virginia Commonwealth University, began collaborating with Drive-By Truckers on 2001’s Southern Rock Opera, the group’s ambitious double album inspired by the 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash.
The Richmond, Virginia-based Freed, who attended art school at Virginia Commonwealth University, began collaborating with Drive-By Truckers on 2001’s Southern Rock Opera, the group’s ambitious double album inspired by the 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash.
- 9/5/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Drive-By Truckers recall their early days as a bar band — under the name of Adam’s House Cat — in the wryly nostalgic trip “Welcome 2 Club Xii.” It’s a song torn from the pages of their own experience, when Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley struggled to keep the attention of hair-metal fans during bad opening-slot gigs.
“Sidewinders in spandex/the parking lot is packed…meanwhile Adam’s House Cat is the opening act/with train songs and ‘People Who Died,’” Hood sings, nodding to the Jim Carroll Band song the band still covers today.
“Sidewinders in spandex/the parking lot is packed…meanwhile Adam’s House Cat is the opening act/with train songs and ‘People Who Died,’” Hood sings, nodding to the Jim Carroll Band song the band still covers today.
- 4/12/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
For anyone who thought 2016’s American Band would be the most explicitly political record of the Drive-By Truckers career, the quintet has nine new songs that’ll likely convince you otherwise. In 2016, the longtime road warriors found new life with its election year treatise, which saw the band more revved up than they had been in more than a decade, delivering screeds about unsexy topics like the violent history of the confederate flag and the white supremacist roots of the NRA.
Four years later, the band doubles down on its Alabama progressivism with The Unraveling,...
Four years later, the band doubles down on its Alabama progressivism with The Unraveling,...
- 1/31/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Gravitas Ventures has acquired rights to Beers of Joy, a feature documentary directed by David Swift and Scott Owen that examines the history of brewing as the backdrop to tell four stories about the, er, craft. It will hit theaters in 10 cities day-and-date on March 1. The pic, done in a partnership with Anheuser-Busch, follows a brewmaster at 10 Barrel Brewing Co traveling across Germany and Italy to discover the secrets to brewing a true Berliner Weisse; a beer educator and the Sugar Creek Brewing Co. head brewer attempting to pass the prestigious Master Cicerone exam; and chef/home brewer who attempts to discover the roots of culinary and brewing techniques culminating in him creating a 16th century feast. The film was produced by Swift, Owen and Mike Cooley’s One-Eleven Entertainment and Anheuser-Busch director of partnerships Jonathan Hack. Here’s the trailer:
Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Kiss Kiss,...
Cleopatra Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Kiss Kiss,...
- 2/19/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
The date is November 25th, 1990, and Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood are upstairs at Muscle Shoals Sound Recording Studio cutting an album — not for Drive-By Truckers, but for their first band, Adam’s House Cat. Twenty-eight years later, that album, Town Burned Down, is about to see the light of day, with a sneak peek in the form of the snotty punk rock of “Runaway Train.”
Not to be mistaken for a song of the same name by Soul Asylum, a Top Five hit two years later, “Runaway Train” shares a scrappy,...
Not to be mistaken for a song of the same name by Soul Asylum, a Top Five hit two years later, “Runaway Train” shares a scrappy,...
- 8/1/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Rough Riders Studios' breakthrough feature documentary, "South Bureau Homicide," chronicles the present day dynamic forged between the South Central Los Angeles' residents and Lapd homicide detectives dedicated to helping one of the most infamous neighborhoods in the world heal. This is the directorial debut for of co-Directors, veteran producer Mark Earl Burman ("Dog Eat Dog") and Mike Cooley.
The film is being presented at Tiff and will make its next festival debut in the U.S. at Sliff in Saint Louis as well as screenings in Ferguson.
Produced in association with Ronin Media House, "South Bureau Homicide" invites the viewer to become a temporary resident of one of the most crime-riddled areas in the nation and showcases how it has affected the community at large, with people of from all backgrounds and ethnicities working together for a common goal.
“After two years in the making, "South Bureau Homicide" is perfectly positioned to be a vehicle of education and healing first and foremost, yet due to the recent events that have brought our society to a vital tipping point, this timely, heart-wrenching and heart-warming tale has major worldwide commercial appeal,” said Burman. “The glimpse the film provides into what’s happening in South Los Angeles underscores the mission of relationship building Lapd has pursued since the riots of the 1990s. It provides evidence for the rest of the nation that local law enforcement and the community it serves can forge a productive relationship despite the overhang of violent crime.”
Burman is also currently in pre-production on "Dog Eat Dog," starring Nicolas Cage, written and directed by Paul Schrader ( "Raging Bull," "Taxi Driver"), which made its Cannes market debut earlier this year. In addition to his resume as filmmaker, Burman is an La County Commissioner (life position), appointed in 2008 and on the board of the The New Way of Life | Re-Entry Project.
Set in Lapd’s South Bureau that spans the southern part of the City of Los Angeles, the film explores the unsung bond created by the homicide detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Criminal Gang Homicide Division and the local community’s anti-violent crime activists. Going against the grain of commonly perceived police & community relations, they traffic in the aftermath of murder, stepping into the breach of loss for next of kin, investigating the crimes, and forging relationships with residents left to live amidst persistent violence.
"'South Bureau Homicide' introduces the viewer to a cast of real characters whose motives are pure and remarkable in the face of life’s greatest tragedy: homicide. These unsung heroes toil persistently without fame or notoriety to bring a measure of healing to families whose loved ones are literally stolen from them,” said co-director Mike Cooley, who also shot and edited the film. “We earned unprecedented access with Lapd and the trust of the community by embedding intimately into their lives and experiences, capturing them honestly and authentically. These people and the work they do speak for themselves.”
"South Bureau Homicide" has various sales and distribution deals on the table with community and major film festival premieres planned ahead of the film’s release. Special screenings at Ame churches in South Los Angeles and elsewhere will kick off the film’s initial grass-roots marketing campaign.
The film is being presented at Tiff and will make its next festival debut in the U.S. at Sliff in Saint Louis as well as screenings in Ferguson.
Produced in association with Ronin Media House, "South Bureau Homicide" invites the viewer to become a temporary resident of one of the most crime-riddled areas in the nation and showcases how it has affected the community at large, with people of from all backgrounds and ethnicities working together for a common goal.
“After two years in the making, "South Bureau Homicide" is perfectly positioned to be a vehicle of education and healing first and foremost, yet due to the recent events that have brought our society to a vital tipping point, this timely, heart-wrenching and heart-warming tale has major worldwide commercial appeal,” said Burman. “The glimpse the film provides into what’s happening in South Los Angeles underscores the mission of relationship building Lapd has pursued since the riots of the 1990s. It provides evidence for the rest of the nation that local law enforcement and the community it serves can forge a productive relationship despite the overhang of violent crime.”
Burman is also currently in pre-production on "Dog Eat Dog," starring Nicolas Cage, written and directed by Paul Schrader ( "Raging Bull," "Taxi Driver"), which made its Cannes market debut earlier this year. In addition to his resume as filmmaker, Burman is an La County Commissioner (life position), appointed in 2008 and on the board of the The New Way of Life | Re-Entry Project.
Set in Lapd’s South Bureau that spans the southern part of the City of Los Angeles, the film explores the unsung bond created by the homicide detectives of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Criminal Gang Homicide Division and the local community’s anti-violent crime activists. Going against the grain of commonly perceived police & community relations, they traffic in the aftermath of murder, stepping into the breach of loss for next of kin, investigating the crimes, and forging relationships with residents left to live amidst persistent violence.
"'South Bureau Homicide' introduces the viewer to a cast of real characters whose motives are pure and remarkable in the face of life’s greatest tragedy: homicide. These unsung heroes toil persistently without fame or notoriety to bring a measure of healing to families whose loved ones are literally stolen from them,” said co-director Mike Cooley, who also shot and edited the film. “We earned unprecedented access with Lapd and the trust of the community by embedding intimately into their lives and experiences, capturing them honestly and authentically. These people and the work they do speak for themselves.”
"South Bureau Homicide" has various sales and distribution deals on the table with community and major film festival premieres planned ahead of the film’s release. Special screenings at Ame churches in South Los Angeles and elsewhere will kick off the film’s initial grass-roots marketing campaign.
- 9/10/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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