Over/under on the number of times tonight's Kimmel appearance will be shared on the page within 24 hours?

Story of the making of Southern Blood from The Bitter Southerner.

http://bittersoutherner.com/from-the-so ... hern-blood

Mystery Road is being re-released on vinyl with the Peter Buck demos:

http://drivinncryinstore.bigcartel.com/ ... ored-vinyl

I hope this makes a ton of money for Kevn and the guys, as they've certainly earned it. I also kind of hope I never hear it.

Kevn's started his August residency at City Winery. I missed this week's, but he's got Lenny Kaye with him next week and Aaron Lee Tasjan and Jon Latam the week after that.

I went to see John Moreland (great, of course) Friday night and Lee was in the crowd. I spoke to him before the show started and told him how much I loved the new record. I swear to God he has got to be the nicest guy on the planet. It's always a plus when people who make art you like also seem to b...

Glad you guys are enjoying it! Just fired up the morning show and they're playing Isaac Hayes, so I think it's going to be a good day.

I liked seeing that mention of the old Merle Haggard birthday shows at the 40 Watt. That was the first time I ever saw DBT.

I went to see Dave Chappelle a couple of weeks ago and everyone who had a phone had to lock it in a soft case as you entered the venue. You kept it with you, and they unlocked them for you on the way out. I was completely cool with it. He got so make sure his performance was captured only as he inte...

Badass new song! Album out June 30th! http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528612068/songs-we-love-lee-bains-iii-the-glory-fires-underneath-the-sheets Sounds promising. Excited for the new album! (Anyone know the reason for change of label?) Check out that interview with the Greenview Journal a couple of ...

Badass new song! Album out June 30th!

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528612068 ... the-sheets

The Colonel had been playing his Thursday night residency about a mile from my house at The Vista Room. I went a handful of times but wish I'd gone more. Always easy to wish that in retrospect. I never had a bad time seeing him play music or chatting with him outside a venue. RIP, Bruce. We must be...

Had to make several trips between Atl and Valdosta in a short period of time a couple weeks ago. During that stretch, I discovered this radio station in Macon. They caught my attention when I was tuning through the stations and heard Hayes Carll. I kept listening and heard DBT, Isbell, Gram Parsons,...

Went to the ATL show last night. The thing about a Tom Petty show is that there's no way to time a bathroom & beer break without missing a great song--"Shit, he's playing Walls, keep the change!" Was also thinking about the contrast with the Mudcrutch show I went to last year. There, he was in blues...

Somehow I'm just now finding out Patterson and Steve McQueen share a birthday. The universe is pretty cool sometimes. Hope it's a great one for Patterson.

I'd love a coffee mug with DBT on one side and the Cooley bird or It's Great to Be Alive on the other.

It's going to be a fairly quick trip for us, but I'll be turning 40 at the Thursday show. If you see a bald guy with a bittersweet look on his face and a brunette who ought to be out of his league, wish me well.

New one's streaming on NPR. So far it sounds like every Son Volt album, but that's not necessarily a complaint.

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/09/514019357 ... t=20170209

Someday I'd love to see a "DBT Family" benefit show where DBT plays an opening set, then anyone who's been in the band over the years plays a mini-set of songs from whatever their current project might be, then there's a superjam at the end. I'd also like to have a head full of hair, but I realize t...

Man. Watching this sure does put me in a good mood.

He would have been seventy yesterday. Still the greatest "guy/gal with a guitar" act I've ever seen. I saw him do one of those solo shows on what I think ended up being his last tour. Somebody had left a camera sitting onstage and Warren picked it it up and took a picture of himself. A guy in the c...

The line-up for their January Athens show is LB3, Five-Eight, and T. Hardy Morris. So badass.

Sending you a PM.

Mike's playing his new concerto the same night Amanda Shires is playing here next week. If I weren't already bald, the stress of choosing would be making my hair fall out.

Went on sale in the General Store this morning. $10 from every shirt goes to Nuci's Space.

https://bsgeneralstore.com/collections/ ... ci-s-space

This is really cool. The DBT Facebook page posted that Patterson's got a short story featured in this collection of cars and crime. I was already planning on picking it up because of the stories from Joe Lansdale and Willy Vlautin. http://www.mulhollandbooks.com/books/fallwinter-20162017/the-highway...

Visiting Seattle for the first time and the trip coincided with this show. Looking forward to seeing the band so far away from where I'm used to seeing them play.

Burn Something Beautiful coming October 28th, announced over on Twitter this morning. Written/produced with Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey:

https://twitter.com/alescovedo/status/7 ... 7060877312

New song here:

https://soundcloud.com/alejandro-escove ... beat-smile

This raises the distinct possibility that I could turn 40 at Homecoming. Hmmm.

But most of it goes through Facebook and Twitter and I’ve never used any of that. I don’t participate in that world at all, mostly because I’ve been to middle school and I didn’t like it all that much.

I love Cooley.

Wife and I decided to go to the Pacific Northwest for our anniversary and it coincides with the Seattle show. Showbox is a cool venue, I take it? Showbox is an excellent club. Not very big, good sight lines & sound. Very well run. I'm kind of surprised the band is playing there. There is another Sh...