Patterson Hood
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"Patterson Hood" is an Americans/American singer-songwriter and co-founder of the band Drive-By Truckers.

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The record's not without its dark moments, but hopefully there's a little bit of a happy ending too.

It in no way denies the horrible things that happened in the South during the civil rights struggle, ... The KKK and church bombings - all of those things did happen, but at the same time there were people like my father making Aretha Franklin records, these southern white boys who made their living playing on some of the best soul records ever made.

A pretty good description of the things we've been writing about, the dualities of the day-to-day.

Cooley and I have been together for 20 years now. It hasn't exactly been an overnight success, ... We're the poster children for stubborn persistence.

I don't think people are going to be calling it 'Southern rock,' .

Most everything on it is real new. Lord knows I've got a backlog of songs, but when we went into the studio I pretty much ignored it. Everything else we've written since we started recording.

I'm not having to come home from tours and wait tables for the next three weeks to make ends meet. We're paying our bills, ... Unfortunately, we haven't gotten to the point where we can take any real time off.

To me, it's an easy record to listen to. But it's not an easy-listening record.

The downside is that critics get their records for free.