Drive-By Truckers
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Drive-By Truckers play music from and talk about their twelfth album, The Unraveling. The band of Alabamans—represented here by Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood—discuss how the political climate shaped the themes of their latest record.
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| 0:00.0 | What is a city without its music? |
| 0:02.4 | The legacy of the New York Philharmonic is incredible, nearly two centuries of history. |
| 0:07.4 | That's a lot of music and a lot of stories. |
| 0:10.5 | I was sitting on stage for the very first time thinking, |
| 0:13.9 | I can't quite believe this is happening. |
| 0:16.4 | Join me, Jamie Bernstein, as we explore the history of the New York Philharmonic. |
| 0:21.3 | It's the NY Phil story made in New York, |
| 0:24.1 | a podcast about a city, its people and their orchestra. |
| 0:28.0 | Listen wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:38.5 | Pushkin. |
| 0:42.3 | It's been nearly four years since drive by truckers released their pissed off, |
| 0:45.9 | politically charged album, American Band. |
| 0:49.0 | That record was their rebel yell, full of songs that reflected life and injustice during the Trump era. |
| 0:55.8 | And judging from their latest release, The Unraveling, |
| 0:58.5 | it's clear the drive by truckers have moved from anger into a state of grief. |
| 1:03.7 | The Unraveling is the drive by truckers' 12th album. |
| 1:06.7 | The band's two lead vocalists, Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood, both grew up in rural Alabama. |
| 1:12.4 | Patterson's dad, David Hood, was the bassist for the swampers, |
| 1:15.6 | one of the most famous studio house bands of all time, |
| 1:18.3 | who are officially known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm section. |
| 1:21.6 | The backdartists like Arita Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Paul Simon. |
| 1:26.4 | But Patterson explains to Bruce Hedlem in this interview why he never talked about his dad's job until he was in his 30s. |
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