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  • Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP
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    Drive-By Truckers

  • By Chris Parkin

    Posted: Mon Jul 28

  • Chequered shirts and sweaty beards ahoy as Athens, Georgia’s ‘three axe attack’ return to satisfy fans of their forebear, Neil Young, who’s left people visibly dribbling after his recent gigs. The Truckers arrive, too, in the wake of long-time admirers, The Hold Steady, who’ve earnestly yelled their way to No 15 with their new album. Should life go to (our) plan, Drive-By Truckers should share in – or steal – this success, since they rock harder, more gutsily and less grandiosely than Craig Finn’s band.

    Should you need any other reason to join the Truckers’ righteous path, besides our own learned patronage, how about this: Spooner Oldham considers them friends and they’ve made an album with soul legend, Bettye LaVette. Leader Patterson Hood’s dad used to be a Muscle Shoals session man and so the soul that seeps out of the Truckers’ swinging music is in his blood. It even gave a potentially horrific rock opera – their rockin’, very fine, Lynyrd-inspired 2002 ‘Southern Rock Opera’ – a whole load of gravitas.

    The Truckers’ seventh LP, ‘Brighter Than Creation’s Dark’, sees them back on thrilling, heads-down, gothic-rock form: a little like ‘Sticky Fingers’ with Neil Young in the saddle. As Shakey might say, with all to play for in these alt.country-friendly times, tonight’s the night.
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  • Electric Ballroom,184 Camden High St, London, NW1 8QP
    , UK
    Geo: 51.539747, -0.143013
  • 020 7485 9006
  • Category: Rock, pop & dance
  • Times: 7.30pm
  • Price: adv £16
  • Tube: Camden Town

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