The Get Out

Empty Trainload Of Sky

Ramon Casiano

Ramon Casiano (Live at 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA, 2018)

Ola Belle Reed & Family

Where The Wild, Wild Flowers Grow

A Seat at the Table

Rise

Cloudy Moon by Dirtball

Better Off Without, released 17th September, is the first single from Patterson Wood's forthcoming solo album Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance, out 10th September.

Heat Lightning Rumblies in the Distance

Patterson Hood - Better Off Without

Song: Disappear
Album: Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (ATO - 9/11/12)

Lyrics:

Underneath the couch
I sleep through it all
As the very last drop
Is smashed against the wall
 
Out in the driveway
Accusing words fall out
I’m underneath your dress
Beneath the bedroom window
 
Sometimes I disappear
I learned to at an early age
Before your very eyes
I’m somewhere far away
 
If I make it down
and come in for a landing
I’ll kiss you till its August
But fly away in June
 
Simply disappear
and vanish into thin air
Sometimes its much better to just not be there.
 
And sometimes I hear words
spoken underneath the song and I associate so freely
 
And sometimes I hear words
spoken underneath the song and I associate completely
 
Sometimes I disappear
since I was three or four
I see your lips move
but I can’t hear you anymore
 
Patterson Hood (Kansas City, September 2010)
 
Kay/Baxendale Mandocello, Lead Vocal
and Harmony - PH
Bass - David Barbe Drums, Tambourine - Brad Morgan  Cellos and Violins - Jacob Morris and  Scott Danbom
Piano - Jay Gonzalez




Disappear - Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance

Song: Come Back Little Star
Album: Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (ATO - 9/11/12)

Lyrics:

Heaven blue eyes
Those long black lashes
Razor tongue and Southern drawl
Pouring out like molasses
That trail of silver mercury
To show us all what you’ve seen
You always have a drink in your hand
But your liver ain’t what it used to be
 
I’m really not mad; I mean I’m trying hard to understand
We both had these dreams too long to let them  slip through your hands
I’ve got a drink or two myself to control the sting
This town got blown to tatters when you traded  in your wheels for wings
 
Baby don’t go
Come back little star and take me with you in the night
Exploding in the sky casting shadows in the light
Take me with you
All these journeys and plans we could share
Or will the dreams we made together
Leave me lying lonely here
 
Lying lonely here
Broken shutters flapping in the rain
The wind’s crying lonesome breeze
Oak tree’s snapping from the strain
I just want to stay
in that better time and place
Chasing bugs in your granny’s yard
Before you disappeared into time and space
Baby don’t go
Come back little star and take me with you in the night
Watching everyone we know
Moving slow together as our dreams take flight
Take me with you
We could chase down the sunrise or disappear
Make some wishes join together
And I could wish to have you here
 
I could wish to have you here

 
Lyrics and Music by Patterson Hood and Kelly Hogan
 
Gibson SG Guitar (D-tuned), Lead Vocal - PH
Harmony Vocal - Kelly Hogan
Grand Piano - Jay Gonzalez
Bass - David Hood
Drums - Brad Morgan
Cellos and Violins - Jacob Morris and Scott Danbom
Pedal Steel - John Neff


Come Back Little Star - Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance

Song - Better Than The Truth
Album - Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (ATO - 9/11/12)

Lyrics:

Billy Ringo always said the fish don’t bite
“Can’t get a break for all my life”
“Can’t get a break to save my life”
Fell out the window with the glass bong in his hand
On the ground, he did land
On his back with it smoking in his hand

Billy Ringo said he nearly to crash his car
on the windy roads not far from the house he used to live in
Said he felt the tires lifting off the pavement
but he pulled it out in time and he made it home by five  

and he said “I’m only looking for an acceptable level of bullshit I can live with
but something’s got to give
and I never could stand that son of a bitch there in the mirror
when he’s staring back at me
Staring back at me”

Billy Ringo liked to play his music loud
said he never was allowed to become the things that he said he
was destined for those nights, drinking at the bar
Talking about his shiny star and it’s impending incline

and he said “I’m only looking for an acceptable level of bullshit I can live with
but something’s got to give”
and if I wrote it in a movie it would all end differently
and be better than the truth
Better than the truth

The last time I saw Billy he was drinking at the bar
We caught up and made some small talk and he invited me over
and he started giving me all the paintings on his wall
said he wanted me to have them and I didn’t know what for

and if I wrote it in a movie it would end there on the ground
like I said there in the first verse that’s how he would be found
I would spare the moviegoers all the bitter sad details
 
Better than the truth

Patterson Hood - May 27, 2010
(Kitchen w Duncan’s gtr.) 

Silvertone Electric and Acoustic Guitars (standard tuning)
and Lead Vocal - PH
Bass - David Barbe
Drums - Brad Morgan
Accordion - Jay Gonzalez
Banjo - Mike Cooley 

Better Than The Truth - Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance

Hootin' and Hollerin'

Drinking in the Blues

American Band - Out 9.30.16

A powerful and legitimately provocative work, hard edged and finely honed, the album is the sound of a truly American Band – a Southern American band – speaking on matters that matter. DBT made the choice to direct the Way We Live Now head on, employing realism rather than subtext or symbolism to purge its makers’ own anger, discontent, and frustration with societal disintegration and the urban/rural divide that has partitioned the country for close to a half-century. Fueled by a just spirit of moral indignation and righteous rage, AMERICAN BAND is protest music fit for the stadiums, designed to raise issues and ire as the nation careens towards its most momentous election in a generation.
AMERICAN BAND’s considerable force can in part be credited to the sheer musical strength of the current Drive-By Truckers line-up, with Hood and Cooley joined by bassist Matt Patton, keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Jay Gonzalez, and drummer Brad Morgan – together, the longest-lasting iteration in the band’s two-decade history.

AMERICAN BAND follows ENGLISH OCEANS and 2015’s IT’S GREAT TO BE ALIVE!, marking the first time DBT have made three consecutive LPs with the same hard-traveling crew.

This album will release on September 30, 2016. 

Ramon Casiano (Live at 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA, 2018)

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