Drive-By Truckers

First Fleet Concerts Presents
Drive-By Truckers
with Lydia Loveless

Friday, July 22, 2022
8:00 PM
Reserved Seating: $29.50, $35, $49.50
ON SALE: Friday, April 1, 2022, at 10:00AM
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The 14^th studio album (out June 3, 2022) from Drive-By Truckers, Welcome 2 Club XIII, looks back on their formative years with both deadpan pragmatism and profound tenderness, instilling each song with the kind of lived-in detail that invites bittersweet reminiscence of your own misspent youth. On the title track to Welcome 2 Club XIII, Drive-By Truckers pay homage to the Muscle Shoals honky-tonk where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley got their start: a concrete-floored dive lit like a disco, with the nightly promise of penny beer and truly dubious cover bands.

Produced by longtime Drive-By Truckers collaborator David Barbe and mainly recorded at his studio in Athens, Georgia, Welcome 2 Club XIII took shape over the course of three frenetic days in summer 2021—a doubly extraordinary feat considering that the band had no prior intentions of making a new album. Arriving as the band enters its 26^th year, Welcome 2 Club XIII marks a sharp departure from the trenchant commentary of The Unraveling and The New OK (both released in 2020).