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Interview about DBT's upcoming live album

Posted on 7/27/15 at 12:32 pm
Posted by LoneStarTiger
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 12:32 pm
It's Great To Be Alive

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Now the Truckers are celebrating those thousands of nights spent with the amps up by issuing a massive live album — 35 tracks! — recorded during a three-night stand at the Fillmore in San Francisco. The set boasts favorites from every point in the Truckers' career, starting with Cooley and Hood's early band, Adam's Housecat, and going all the way into material from its excellent 2014 album English Oceans, including an epic version of "Grand Canyon," the band's gorgeous ode to the late Craig Lieske, who was the band's tour merchandise man for a decade, and who died in 2013. It's Great To Be Alive! will be out October 30, and though it's not quite as perfect a Truckers experience as seeing the band live a dozen times over the years, it's pretty close.


Tracklist:

1 Lookout Mountain
2 Where The Devil Don't Stay
3 Sink Hole
4 Made Up English Oceans
5 The Righteous Path
6 Women Without Whiskey
7 The Living Bubba
8 Primer Coat
9 Mercy Buckets
10 Marry Me
11 Tornadoes
12 Sounds Better In The Song
13 Used To Be A Cop
14 shite Shots Count [Explicit]
15 Runaway Train
16 A Ghost To Most
17 Goode's Field Road
18 Uncle Frank
19 Putting People On The Moon
20 First Air Of Autumn
21 Box Of Spiders
22 When The Pin Hits The Shell
23 A World Of Hurt
24 Get Downtown
25 Ronnie And Neil
26 Gravity's Gone
27 Pauline Hawkins
28 Birthday Boy
29 Girls Who Smoke
30 Three Dimes Down
31 Hell No, I Ain't Happy
32 Shut Up And Get On The Plane
33 Angels And Fuselage
34 Zip City
35 Grand Canyon
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 1:07 pm to
No Carl Perkin's Cadillac. Dang.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 1:45 pm to
frick yes. Will be getting this on vinyl.
Posted by LoneStarTiger
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 2:25 pm to
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Carl Perkin's Cadillac


this and Heathens are noticeably absent

Posted by SthGADawg
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 2:55 pm to
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Now the Truckers are celebrating those thousands of nights spent with the amps



where is all the Isbell stuff?


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starting with Cooley and Hood's early band, Adam's Housecat, and going all the way into material from its excellent 2014 album English Oceans



they are leaving a significant time period out...
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 2:58 pm to
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where is all the Isbell stuff?

Who owns those, and does he ever play any of them live?
Posted by Funky Tide 8
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 3:02 pm to
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Now the Truckers are celebrating those thousands of nights spent with the amps



where is all the Isbell stuff?



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recorded during a three-night stand at the Fillmore in San Francisco


He isn't in the band anymore. Why would they play and sing the songs that he wrote and sang? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'd like to hear Cooley and Hood sing some of those songs, but it isn't surprising that no Isbell songs are on there.
Posted by LoneStarTiger
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 3:12 pm to
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where is all the Isbell stuff?



Posted by Baloo
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 4:23 pm to
Isbell isn't in the band, and hasn't been for a decade. Honestly, he only appears on two and a half records. He does have three of their best songs (Outfit, Decoration Day, and Goddamn Lonely Love), but his stuff is hardly essential to the Truckers songbook at this point.

I mean, I like Isbell, but he was in the band for such a short period of time. It's like bitching that Neil Young is not on a CSN track. Look, I love Neil Young, too, but both sides moved on a long time ago.
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 7/27/15 at 4:30 pm to
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He does have three of their best songs (Outfit, Decoration Day, and Goddamn Lonely Love)
Four because: The Day John Henry Died.
Posted by SthGADawg
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 6:58 am to
I took it as a "best of" album by the description...just saying you can't do a best of without Isbell...that was my only point...I do realize he isn't in the band anymore...I follow along...and doesn't do shows with them obviously...it was more a..."don't say its the best of DBT if you don't include Isbell" thought process....

I love DBT...love Patterson Hood's songwriting...but

Isbell solo > DBT without him

IMHO

It is clear to me that when he left "amicably" he was actually pushed out...he is a better vocalist, guitar player, and song writer...and they knew it...

once again..IMHO
Posted by monsterballads
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 8:00 am to
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and does he ever play any of them live?


isbell wrote and owns the songs. he plays them live all of the time.
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 8:28 am to
Thanks
Posted by monsterballads
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 8:43 am to
I saw the truckers set at hogs for the cause and enjoyed it much more than the last time I saw them. I'm thinking of going to the varsity show. my friend plays bass for them.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:40 am to
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Isbell solo > DBT without him


To each his own. I enjoy English Oceans more than any Isbell solo album.

I like Isbell, but I like Hood and Cooley more.

Posted by Funky Tide 8
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 10:44 am to
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my friend plays bass for them.


Nice. I love the Dexateens and I think that he is a great fit for DBT. Adds a lot of energy.
Posted by NoSaint
Member since Jun 2011
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 3:59 pm to
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I took it as a "best of" album by the description...just saying you can't do a best of without Isbell...that was my only point...I do realize he isn't in the band anymore...I follow along...and doesn't do shows with them obviously...it was more a..."don't say its the best of DBT if you don't include Isbell" thought process....


i took it as a live album recorded on their last tour with a setlist that spans their entire career... which is exactly what it is.

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It is clear to me that when he left "amicably" he was actually pushed out...he is a better vocalist, guitar player, and song writer...and they knew it...


he was also a big drunk jerk at the time, and getting divorced from a spouse in the band too... so theres that, beyond being scared he was too good.
Posted by monsterballads
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 4:06 pm to
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To each his own. I enjoy English Oceans more than any Isbell solo album.



I don't think many will agree that are fans of americana/southern rock will share that opinion.
Last two records now that isbell has put out have been stellar.
Posted by LoneStarTiger
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 4:21 pm to
I think both Isbell and DBT are better off where they are right now.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
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Posted on 7/28/15 at 4:23 pm to
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I don't think many will agree that are fans of americana/southern rock will share that opinion.


That's fine. I don't even think that Isbell's last two albums are really comparable to English Oceans. Really a different sound and style.

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Last two records now that isbell has put out have been stellar.

No doubt, but I still like English Oceans better than both.
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