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. 

I like long walks on short beaches.
Somewhere someone loves you.
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Punk/Hardcore band from Austin TX, formed at the very end of 2015, Despero draws from influences like Good Riddance, and Avail as well as many others. 

I see images when I listen to music. So I created a soundtrack dedicated to my everyday thoughts and dreams and emotions.

I've had some songs that I've had for years and never really did anything with them but play them for my own enjoyment. I wrote all of them on my dads guitar that I was given when he passed away.

The songs may be different in contrast but they're part of an on going writing process going back 10 or 11 years, during different times of my life and growing up.
So I'm just recording as I go, I have no time limit or anyone to impress. I would love to feature some of my badass musician friends that I have on certain tracks along the way.

Bueno

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