#568 Beach Slang & Opinions on Drive-By Truckers

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Beach Slang has wowed critics and audiences alike with its loud, energy filled live performances and unabashedly earnest lyrics. But in front of a live audience at the Goose Island Tap Room, Beach Slang songwriter James Alex strips away the volume, but not the heart, for an intimate acoustic performance and conversation with hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot. Plus, the new record by Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers, and the story behind a forgotten garage classic.

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0:00.0	You got to understand something here. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.
0:06.0	Without this, life would be meaningless. Yes. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.
0:27.0	Philadelphia's Beach slang is one of the most exciting bands in rock today. On stage, they're loud,
0:35.2	they're fast, they're hard, but they're sensitive. Band leader James Alex joins us in front
0:40.0	of a live audience for a special acoustic performance. I'm Jim De Regis.
0:44.0	And I'm Greg Kot. We'll also be reviewing the 11th studio album from Veteran Rock Band, The Drive-Bytruckers.
0:51.0	And we're going to dig into the surprising story behind a song I
0:54.4	can't live without. That's all coming up on sound opinions.
0:59.4	This is sound opinions and Greg as I just noted Beach Slang is one of the most powerful live bands of recent years.
1:08.0	I first saw them at South by Southwest because I stupidly was not moved by their first record and we had many sound opinions
1:14.1	listeners emailing both of us saying you got to see them live you'll get it and
1:18.5	certainly I did this is how the band normally sounds. that will always last.
1:35.0	play it tough, play it quiet.
1:38.0	Play it something that might say, Now the group has had a number of line-ups since it began with singer and songwriter James Alex just this week they parted ways with
1:52.0	part ways with a guitarist who was touring with
1:55.1	them amid allegations that he'd been involved in a sexual assault before joining
1:59.6	the band. They're touring now behind the new record a loud bash of teenage feelings.
2:04.4	A couple of weeks ago a crowd of about 50 people lucky fans joined us for a very
2:09.2	special solo acoustic performance from James Alex at the Goose Island tap room here in Chicago.
2:16.2	That song we just heard part of, future mixtape for the Art Kids contains this lyric.
2:20.8	Play it soft, play it quiet, play me something that might save my life. I
2:26.1	ask James if that bit about his life, depending on rock and roll, is something he really
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