Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Music news Patterson Hood solo album finally surfaces (and more Drive-By Trucker news…)
Posted by Christopher Hassiotis on Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Now that Drive-By Truckers songwriter Patterson Hood has settled back into Georgia after touring with Booker T. Jones and lecturing at Princeton, he's ready to set the stage for the release of his long, long, long-awaited solo disc Murdering Oscar (and other love songs).
Available right this minute for pre-order at Hood's personal site in digital, CD and vinyl incarnations, Murdering Oscar's also available in a pricey deluxe package too: a limited edition featuring special artwork from longtime Trucker artist Wes Freed along with some other shiny bonuses. Tuesday, June 23 is the album's official release date.
As for touring to support the release, Hood wrote this on his MySpace page:
Due to the logistics of touring with a band comprised of members of various other bands (plus David Barbe's studio schedule) there will only be a limited number of shows initially, but we are hitting Chicago and both coasts this summer and hope to do some more dates later in the year.
Backing Hood on this current outing will be David Barbe (Sugar), Will Johnson and Scott Danbom (both of Centro-Matic) and regular Drive-By Truckers John Neff and Brad Morgan, playing collectively under the name The Screwtopians.
Tour dates and more Truckers news after the break:
Murdering Oscar is a follow-up to Hood's solo debut Killers + Stars, and most of its songs come from more than a decade back, as Hood explains here. Its release was held up for years due to contractual negotiations with the Truckers' label at the time, New West Records, and it'll be put out by Athens' Ruth St. Records.
In other Trucker news, the band will release a DVD on July 7 of its performance at Austin City Limits, and September 1 sees New West release The Fine Print, a collection of Drive-By Truckers outtakes, oddities and rare tracks. The band's back in Athens right now at work on a follow-up to last year's album Brighter Than Creation's Dark.
Patterson Hood & the Screwtopians Tour Dates:
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