Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera with Patterson Hood

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🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Drive-By Truckers are celebrating the twenty-third anniversary of their double album, "Southern Rock Opera." Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot join Patterson Hood of the Truckers for a classic album dissection of their magnum opus.

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Featured Songs:

Drive-By Truckers, "The Three Great Alabama Icons," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

The Beatles, "With a Little Help from My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967

Drive-By Truckers, "Ronnie and Neil," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Angels and Fuselage," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Guitar Man Upstairs," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Wallace," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Days of Graduation," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Let There Be Rock," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Shut Up and Get on the Plane," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Women Without Whiskey," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Life in the Factory," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Road Cases (live)," Southern Rock Opera (Deluxe Edition), New West, 2024

Drive-By Truckers, "Cassie's Brother," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love (live)," DBT Homecoming 2018 Thursday + Friday + Saturday, Self-Released, 2020

Drive-By Truckers, "72 (This Highway's Mean)," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Moved," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Zip City," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Drive-By Truckers, "Primer Coat," English Oceans, ATO, 2014

Drive-By Truckers, "Every Single Storied Flameout," Welcome 2 Club XIII, ATO , 2022

Drive-By Truckers, "The Southern Thing," Southern Rock Opera, Soul Dump, 2001

Redd Kross, "Born Innocent," Redd Kross, In The Red, 2024

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0:00.0	Hey there if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon,
0:04.0	you can hear it via the Patreon page and free.
0:08.0	Hello, Chicago! Oh. Oh, You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're talking with Patterson Hood of the
0:39.7	drive-by truckers for a classic album dissection of Southern Rock Opera.
0:44.6	I'm Jim De Reganus.
0:46.0	And I'm Greg Cot.
0:47.0	Let's get into it.
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1:05.6	Beer Company Chicago's Beer. Before we welcome Patterson Hood to the
1:10.1	conversation we need to set the scene Greg for when Southern Rock Opera was
1:14.5	originally released. How did you first hear it and how did it shape what you thought
1:20.8	about the drive-by truckers? You know I got the I think I got an
1:25.0	advanced copy of the record before it came out from the record company and they
1:29.4	were they were hipping it pretty hard by Drive-By truckers a band I was somewhat familiar with and I thought
1:35.8	they were okay but they you know they struck me as kind of a jokey bar band you know and they were good at it but not exceptional
1:45.4	I was that I didn't think the songwriting really merited a stronger look and
1:50.7	then you know you get southern rock Opera and you go wow there's some
1:54.2	great ideas here this is an interesting take on you know the South the
1:59.2	Southern Rock the whole idea of what what the new South can be and what it was, and grappling with these issues.
2:08.0	They were really talking about, you know, there's an ambiguity there and an ambivalence there about what it means to be a southerner with a conscience, you know?
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