|
Drive-By Truckers release their 14th studio album, Welcome 2 Club XIII, available everywhere now via ATO Records on limited edition vinyl, CD, and all digital formats.
Welcome 2 Club XIII includes such recently released singles as “The Driver,” “Every Single Storied Flameout,” and the album’s swinging centerpiece, “Welcome 2 Club XIII,” all available now at all DSPs and streaming services; the latter track – which pays homage to the Muscle Shoals honky-tonk where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley got their start – is joined by an official music video streaming now via YouTube.
PURCHASE/DOWNLOAD WELCOME 2 CLUB XIII
WATCH “THE DRIVER” OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO
LISTEN TO “EVERY SINGLE STORIED FLAMEOUT”
WATCH “WELCOME 2 CLUB XIII” OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
Welcome 2 Club XIII – which premiered yesterday with an exclusive feature interview in Garden & Gun – has been met with early critical applause from media outlets around the world.
PRAISE FOR WELCOME 2 CLUB XIII:
“Recorded live, Welcome 2 Club XIII sizzles with the Truckers’ well-earned grit and intensity… It’s thrilling, wistful, heart-pounding, and fist-pumping stuff, everything that makes
Drive-By Truckers one of America’s most enduring rock bands.”
– GARDEN & GUN
“The album is tinted with nostalgia for the early days of the Truckers, especially on lead single ‘Welcome 2 Club XIII,’ a vignette of a night at the venue. It’s also a shift from the Truckers’ overtly political previous three records…Hood calls it ‘a relief’ to pull back on Club XIII. After all, the Truckers are a rock band first.”
– Vulture
“Post-covid, the band again mirror the culture around them –
this time a world taking stock of a different kind of trauma.”
– MOJO
“Welcome 2 Club XIII captures the beautiful weariness of having lived…
Throughout the album, Drive-By Truckers explore memory’s textures,
its sharpest edges and fuzziest corners, and what it means to exist in this world we inhabit.”
– No Depression
“Refreshed and reinvigorated”
– Grammy.com
“Drive-By Truckers keep it heavy and honest on rockin’ Welcome 2 Club XIII.”
– Glide
“Recorded quickly and with little fuss, Welcome 2 Club XIII sounds raw and weary, as if the past couple of years aren’t the only thing that’s weighed on the band; the decades have, too…
But they never sound defeated. They’re still in for the long haul.”
– ULTIMATE CLASSIC ROCK
“Drive-By Truckers are still one of the best modern American rock bands.”
– RIFF
“The DBTs are arguably stronger than ever, 26 years on…True to their mantra,
the DBTs still remain provocatively expressive.”
– Making a Scene
# # #
Arriving as Drive-By Truckers enters its 26th year, Welcome 2 Club XIII marks a sharp departure from the trenchant commentary of The Unraveling and The New OK (both released in 2020). Produced by longtime Drive-By Truckers collaborator David Barbe and mainly recorded at his studio in Athens, GA, Welcome 2 Club XIII took shape over the course of three frenetic days in summer 2021 – a doubly extraordinary feat considering that the band had no prior intentions of making a new album. Featuring background vocals from the likes of Margo Price, R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, and Mississippi-bred singer/songwriter Schaefer Llana, Welcome 2 Club XIII was recorded live with most songs cut in one or two takes, fully harnessing Drive-By Truckers’ freewheeling energy. Songs like the softly stunning “Wilder Days” see the band – whose lineup also includes keyboardist/guitarist Jay Gonzalez, bassist Matt Patton, and drummer Brad Morgan – looking back on their formative years with both deadpan pragmatism and profound tenderness, instilling each song with the kind of lived-in detail that invites bittersweet reminiscence of your own misspent youth.
“Cooley and I have been playing together for 37 years now,” Hood says. “That first band might have failed miserably on a commercial level, but I’m really proud of what we did back then. It had a lot to do with who we ended up becoming.”
Drive-By Truckers are currently celebrating Welcome 2 Club XIII with a marathon live schedule, including top-billed festival dates, and North American, European, and UK headline tours. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.drivebytruckers.com/shows.
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
LIVE 2022
JUNE
3 – Antwerp, Belgium – De Roma †
5 – Raalte, Netherlands – Ribs & Blues *
6 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso †
7 – Brighton, UK – Chalk †
8 – London, UK – O2 Forum †
9 – Leeds, UK – Leeds University Stylus †
11 – Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street †
12 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3 TV Studio †
14 – Tilburg, Netherlands – 013 (Jupiler Zaal) †
15 – Paris, France – La Maroquinerie †
17 – Mendizabala, Vitoria-Gasteiz – Azkena Rock Festival *
19 – Eridge Park, UK – Black Deer Festival *
JULY
14 – Breckenridge, CO – Riverwalk Center
15 – Denver, CO – Levitt Pavilion
16 – Kansas City, MO – Knuckleheads
19 – Omaha, NE – Falconwood Park
20 – Minneapolis, MN – Utepils Brewing
22 – Des Moines, IA – Hoyt Sherman Place
23 – Dayton, OH – Dayton Masonic Center
24 – Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Beer Garden
27 – Fort Wayne, IN – The Clyde Theatre
29 -St. Louis, MO – Open Highway Music Festival *
30 – Maryville, TN – The Shed
31 – Wilmington, NC – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater
AUGUST
2 – Virginia Beach, VA – Elevation 27
4 – Deerfield, MA – Tree House Brewing Company
5 – Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
8 – Patchogue, NY – Patchogue Theatre
10 – Isle of Palms, SC – The Windjammer
11 – Isle of Palms, SC – The Windjammer
12 – Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
13 – Pelham, TN – The Caverns
20 – Redmond, WA – CHOMP! (Free Show) *
SEPTEMBER
10 – Jasper, AL – Foothills Festival (Free Show) *
17 -Louisville, KY -Bourbon & Beyond *
* Festival Appearance
† w/Special Guest Jerry Joseph
# # #
|
