Event

Drive-By Truckers

UM Productions is proud to present Drive-By Truckers Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at the historic Wilma Theatre. Flaunting a mix of Southern pride, erudite lyrics, and a muscled three-guitar attack, Drive-By Truckers became one of the most well-respected alternative country-rock acts of the 2000s.

Led by front man Patterson Hood and comprising of a rotating cast of Georgia and Alabama natives, the band celebrates the South while refusing to paint over its spotty past. A lyric-driven band, whose songs and music tell stories and paint scenes. History, folklore, politics, and character studies all share equal space in the Truckers catalog.

Their latest album, Go-Go Boots, rises like smoke from the old Muscle Shoals country-and-soul sound. Having recorded with Bettye LaVette and Booker T. Jones, and having spent a lifetime listening to classic soul albums by Bobby Womack, Tony Joe White, and especially Eddie Hinton, it was inevitable that the Truckers eventually produce this album. For more information please visit drivebytruckers.com and umproductions.org.