Drive-By Truckers
The South as it actually is.
Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley have spent three decades writing the South the way it actually is — beautiful, brutal, contradictory, refusing to be summarized. 'Southern Rock Opera' is a foundational text. Everything after is them refusing to repeat themselves.
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- R.E.M.
- Tom T. Hall
- Jason Isbell
- Centro-Matic
- Bettye LaVette
Drive-By Truckers on tape
Late-night listening. Hit play and let it run.
Landmark records
Pull the thread
USA · 1944 — 1997
Townes Van Zandt
The patron saint of the kitchen-table songwriters.
USA · 1953 — present
Lucinda Williams
Louisiana made audible.
USA · 1978 — present
Sturgill Simpson
Walked into Nashville with a haircut and an attitude.
USA · 1991 — present
Tyler Childers
Appalachia, unfiltered and unembarrassed.
USA · 1988 — present
Sierra Ferrell
Sings like she found the songs in a creek bed.
USA · 1984 — present
Charley Crockett
Keeps the bones, throws out the gristle.
USA · 1979 — present
Jason Isbell
Wrote 'Southeastern' and meant it.
USA · 1983 — present
Margo Price
Outlaw country with a working-class spine.