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re: Drive-By Truckers: American Band 9/30

Posted by dime in the gutter on 6/23/16 at 4:18 pm to SthGADawg

Not really a solo record is it?

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re: Drive-By Truckers: American Band 9/30

Posted by dime in the gutter on 6/23/16 at 9:55 am to SthGADawg

Cooley has solo stuff?

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re: Drive-By Truckers: American Band 9/30

Posted by dime in the gutter on 6/22/16 at 8:05 pm to Demshoes

surrender under protest

quote:
From the comfort zone of history
On the lips of trusted relatives
To the wounded fragile minds of angry youth
No sooner was it over
Than the memory made it noble
A selective lens by which to point the view

Compelled but not defeated
Surrender under protest if you must
Compelled but not defeated

If it's all you can remember
Then it's been that way forever
And for six long generations it's been told
That among the fallen was tradition
That tradition was the mission
And that the wrongness of the sin was not the goal

Compelled but not defeated
Surrender under protest if you must
Compelled but not defeated

Does the color really matter
On the face you blame for failure
All the shaming for a ... losing cause
But the victims and aggressors
Just remain each others' others
And the instigators never fight their own

Compelled but not defeated
Surrender under protest if you must
Compelled but not defeated
Surrender under protest if you must
Surrender under protest if you must

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re: Drive-By Truckers: American Band 9/30

Posted by dime in the gutter on 6/22/16 at 4:58 pm to Demshoes

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“I don’t want there to be any doubt as to which side of this discussion we fall on,” Hood says. “I don’t want there to be any misunderstanding of where we stand. If you don’t like it, you can leave. It’s okay. We’re not trying to be everybody’s favorite band, we’re going to be who we are and do what we do and anyone who’s with us, we’d love to have them join in.”

Mike Cooley is somewhat more direct. “I wanted this to be a no bones about it, in your face political album,” he says. “I wanted to piss off the assholes.”

"I’ve always considered our band to be political," Hood says. "I’ve studied and followed politics since I was a small kid. I got in trouble in third grade for a paper I wrote about Watergate – the teacher sent a note home to my parents saying I was voicing opinions about our president that she didn’t appreciate. That’s the one time I got in trouble at school where my parents sided with me."

"SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA was a pretty political record," Cooley says. "But we hadn’t had our first black president yet. We hadn’t sat in the bleachers and watched the backlash, which, as acquainted as we are with racism, went beyond what anyone imagined it would be."

"It’s an inspiring album and one that made me question myself," he says. "I’m a white guy from the South, do I have the right to be singing about this stuff? What can I do? The only conclusion I could come up with was maybe white guys, with Southern accents, who look like rednecks, need to say Black Lives Matter too. It’s a start, a tiny start, but a step in the right direction is better than no step at all."

"I couldn’t not do it," says Cooley. "I’ve got to speak about this stuff, somehow or another. And I’m going to speak about it from a middle aged Southern white working class evangelical background male point of view."

"The NRA needs to be turned into a political turd in a swimming pool," Cooley says, "so all these frickers will start paddling away.

"What I’m trying to do is point straight to the white supremacist core of gun culture," Cooley concludes. "That’s what it is and that’s where its roots are. When gun culture thinks about all the threats they need to be armed against, what color are they?"