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PRE-ORDER RELEASED 30TH SEPTEMBER 2016

A statement from Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood:
“We are beyond thrilled to announce the release date of our new
album ‘American Band’.
“These are crazy times and we have made a record steeped in this
moment of history that we're all trying to live through. We've always
considered ourselves a political band, even when that aspect seemed
to be concealed by some type of narrative device i.e. dealing with
issues of race by telling a story set in the time of George Wallace or
class struggles by setting ‘Putting People On The Moon’ in the age of
Reagan.
“This time out, there are no such diversions as these songs are
mostly set front and center in the current political arena with songs
dealing with our racial and cultural divisions, gun violence, mass
shootings and political assholery. Once again, there is a nearly even
split between the songs of Cooley and myself, with both of us
bringing in songs that seem to almost imply a conversation between
us about our current place in time.
“‘American Band’ is a sort of rock and roll call to arms as well as a
musical reset button for our band and the country we live in. Most of
all, we look at it as the beginnings of some conversations that we, as
a people very much need to begin having if we ever hope to break
through the divisions that are threatening to tear us apart.
“Drive-By Truckers are celebrating our twentieth anniversary as a
band in an election year where some people are trying to define what
it is to be American. Definitions based on some outdated ideology of
prejudice and fear. We are loudly proclaiming that those people don’t
speak for us. America is and always has been a land of immigrants
and ideals. Ideals that we have often fallen short of achieving, but it’s
the striving that has given us whatever claims to greatness we have
had. That’s what America means to us and “We’re an American
Band”.”
LP format includes digital download code.

Tracklisting
Ramon Casiano
Darkened Flags At The
Cusp Of Dawn
Surrender Under Protest
Guns Of Umpqua
Filthy And Fried
Sun Don’t Shine
Kinky Hypocrite
Ever South
What It Means
Once They Banned
Imagine
Baggage