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Tequila Cowboy wrote:Agreed that the 'Mats influence was much more pronounced in the AHC days, but are you telling me you folks never noticed the Westerberg influence on Patterson's DBT offerings? Heck, that influence (obvious if not immediately apparent) was what made me such a huge fan of his writing. Now the real interesting part is at this point I think PH has far surpassed Westerberg as a writer. Whereas Paul was always able to write wry, sometimes biting love songs I think the fact that Patterson has spent most of his career writing darker tunes allowed him to write the beautifully sweet Mercy Buckets, his second best song IMHO, completely without irony.

By the time DBT started putting out albums the Westerberg influence was moderated by many other influences that I can't discern from the Adam's House Cat album. Yes, PH did maintain some of what he learned from Westerberg. But the band arrangements on the AHC album -- especially the guitars -- owe a whole lot more to The 'Mats than any DBT offering including ABAAC which is the most 'Mats influenced DBT album to date. The guitar weaving on the Adam's House Cat album sounds a whole lot like Westerberg and Stinson circa Let It Be and Tim.

Did Patterson Hood surpass Paul Westerberg as a writer? PH is certainly more prolific than PW, for whom music became more of a part time profession as he entered his forties and fifties. But Westerberg has a body of work that is as solid as any American songwriter. "Unsatisfied", "Here Comes a Regular", "Color Me Impressed", "I'm In Trouble", "Skyway", "Can't Hardly Wait"? Great songs, every one of them. DBT may be my favorite band ever but I can't take a single thing away from Westerberg. He deserves every accolade he's ever gotten and then some.
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"Long Time Ago" is my new favorite song. There, I said it. "Bitch! bitch! bitch! Cry! cry! cry!" You'll never hear that in a Paul Westerberg song.
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im not on facebook, but if i was, i would get on there and beg for this to be released on vinyl!

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I like this alot.

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where is Troubled Waters? wasn't that an AHC song?

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southerngarden wrote:where is Troubled Waters? wasn't that an AHC song?


Didn't make it onto TBD. Haven't heard that song in years.

Soon we will post another short bit P wrote about this record, and how it was made. It was a dark time, though I think not the darkest. I took this record to the producer I was doing my internship with some time later, and he said Patterson's songwriting was "way too depressing" to ever be popular. I loved it and must have listened to it a billion times, so much that when they started reworking Buttholeville with DBT, it took me a minute to give up the old sound. It was indeed a long time ago... I met Cooley and Patterson while they were recording this; the beautiful high vocal on "Long Time Ago" was our mutual friend Chris Quillen, our beloved "Monster" - he introduced us. Every time I hear that song it makes me ache from missing him so.
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Jenn wrote:
southerngarden wrote:where is Troubled Waters? wasn't that an AHC song?


Didn't make it onto TBD. Haven't heard that song in years.

Soon we will post another short bit P wrote about this record, and how it was made. It was a dark time, though I think not the darkest. I took this record to the producer I was doing my internship with some time later, and he said Patterson's songwriting was "way too depressing" to ever be popular. I loved it and must have listened to it a billion times, so much that when they started reworking Buttholeville with DBT, it took me a minute to give up the old sound. It was indeed a long time ago... I met Cooley and Patterson while they were recording this; the beautiful high vocal on "Long Time Ago" was our mutual friend Chris Quillen, our beloved "Monster" - he introduced us. Every time I hear that song it makes me ache from missing him so.

Thanks for posting, Jenn. IMO, there is not enough info out there about Adam's House Cat. Since you were there, I've got a few questions. Where were they based? I've had conflicting info but my sense is that they started in the Shoals area, then tried Birmingham and then Memphis in hopes of finding a town with some type of scene. How many people did they typically draw to a gig? Were some towns receptive to them while others weren't? What other bands were they networking with at the time, i.e. trading gigs, etc...? The sense I get is that the band did reasonably well, especially given the fact that they were not based in a town with an undergound scene, had no record deal -- not even an indie --, and were based in a region that was not particularly friendly to 1980's, left of the dial, indie music. They probably would have had more opportunities if they made the move to Austin, Texas or Athens, GA.
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RevMatt wrote:Thanks for posting, Jenn. IMO, there is not enough info out there about Adam's House Cat. Since you were there, I've got a few questions. Where were they based? I've had conflicting info but my sense is that they started in the Shoals area, then tried Birmingham and then Memphis in hopes of finding a town with some type of scene. How many people did they typically draw to a gig? Were some towns receptive to them while others weren't? What other bands were they networking with at the time, i.e. trading gigs, etc...? The sense I get is that the band did reasonably well, especially given the fact that they were not based in a town with an undergound scene, had no record deal -- not even an indie --, and were based in a region that was not particularly friendly to 1980's, left of the dial, indie music. They probably would have had more opportunities if they made the move to Austin, Texas or Athens, GA.


They were definitely based in the Shoals. By the time Patterson and Cooley moved to Memphis, AHC was broken up for all practical purposes and they did an acoustic thing for a while called Virgil Kane. After Memphis crapped out, they moved to Auburn and formed a few bands that didn't do much; one with my brother Aaron "Radar" Bryant on drums and the original DBT bassist Adam Howell called Horsepussy. God I loved that name, but they didn't get many gigs.

I hate to venture answers in too much detail, because I had a head injury in '95 that caused the loss a lot of my memories. I still rely on Patterson to remind me of a lot of things that went on back then; he has one hell of a memory, as most of you probably know. What I do remember is that AHC definitely did not get good reception in most places they played, but they didn't let it slow them down much. They were bombastic and unapologetic and loud, loud, loud. Hell, I hated them the first time I heard them; but that didn't last long. They did fairly well in the Shoals for a little while, though only with the younger bunch - none of the old guard came out to see them much. They pissed people off a few times even there. I never saw an out of town gig that drew more than 20 or so people; usually there'd be a couple or three. AHC hey didn't really hook up and tour with other bands like DBT does that I remember. It was a hard time for any band, but I do think they were far ahead of their time - in a more hip place, a few years later, they probably would have done very well. Broke my heart when they broke up.

Hopefully Patterson's writeup will better answer some of these questions. I just posted it - here it go!

http://www.drivebytruckers.com/news.html#ahctbd
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While I'm here and tipsy, I'd like to speak to the reason that this album has been offered up.
100,000 Facebook fans - wow. When we started that page, I was mentally battling several band members, and I don't think I need to mention names, over the importance it. Mind you, no one ever said anything askance to me; it was plain that they had absolutely no use for any of that computer nonsense. In my head, I imagined hundreds of scenarios where I laid out the importance and significance of having a strong online presence for a touring band, or how awesome the internet is, or how easy it was to find porn - and every time they laughed me off the bus. For shame! Have some whiskey, and stop talking about that crazy shit. All in my head. They might have been daunted, but as with everything else, they conquered. I'm proud to say that they have grown technologically at the same rate as their online fanbase, and you can hardly get Patterson 10 feet from a computer, and once in a blue moon I'll get an actual goddamn for-real email from Cooley. I'm as proud of them as I am of all the folks who help them do what they do best, and I don't know what I'd do without any of ya.
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When I joined Facebook in 2008 DBT was the first band I looked for and "liked". At the time there were 9000 or so fans. They owe some part of their success to your efforts, Jenn. Thanks for still being so cool to stop by here and share your thoughts with all of us.
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If you are the one who got Drive By Truckers hip to social networking and the like, then all of us owe you a big thanks. A really great online community has developed among people who have DBT in common. At the same time, it exists independently of the band. I've only been around for a couple of years -- came way late to the party -- but have met some really great people in that time. I've also been introduced to some great bands, books, movies and other ideas here. We've had some really awesome times, especially at the pre-game meet-ups. Without the online community I might make two or three gigs a year. But the online community is the reason why I went to more than ten in 2010.
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...OR Jason Wilson, who has managed the DBT Facebook page and all the social media like a fucking CHAMP for the past few years. Thank god for him, because I'd be damn crazy without him.
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100K is huge. I had to double take when I saw that at first. Awesome.

Great AHC tunage and a great letter from Patterson. Thanks Jenn, Jason Wilson and DBT. Y'all are great folks.

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Jenn wrote:...OR Jason Wilson, who has managed the DBT Facebook page and all the social media like a fucking CHAMP for the past few years. Thank god for him, because I'd be damn crazy without him.


Thankee, dear friend. I still have written notes of monthly Like increases on FB, pre-FB stat counter. 11/1/09 = 12,641 Likes. And nobody wanted a Twitter account. Oh no. Created one anyway. 12K followers later...

I may be biased, but my empirical observations confirm that DBT's online community is a collection of some of the best people on this planet. The. Best.

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It's a virtual ghost town these days (unfortunately) but one of the very first listservs I joined when I first went online in the late 90s is the DBTs list on Yahoo Groups. Like lots of others, I do use Facebook a good deal but prefer the original Yahoo Groups list and this message board to anything on Facebook. You just don't get the in-depth musical discussions that happen on e-mail lists and message boards there. People just click "Like" which precludes them from taking part in any actual discourse.

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You can really hear the Buttholeville/State Trooper resemblance on this record/
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I still remember back in 2004 when I first discovered them. I looked on the website page and The Dirty South page came up.. The rest is history nuff said

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Smitty wrote:You can really hear the Buttholeville/State Trooper resemblance on this record/


I was there when Patterson pulled out Buttholeville for the first time in his grandmothers basement. He started playing and I thought he was doing State Trooper then he throws out these off the wall lyrics. I was sure what to think. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would be chatting about that song 20+ years later :)

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Does anyone know the actual track list order of 'Town Burned Down'?

Jeez. How is this my first post since this whole deal moved over to 3dd.com? Joined June 20 2010, first post Dec 7, 2011.

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DownSouth wrote:Does anyone know the actual track list order of 'Town Burned Down'?

01 Lookout Mountain
02 Town Burned Down
03 Runaway Train
04 Elvis P Stole My Car
05 Down On Me
06 6 O'Clock Train
07 Buttholeville
08 Picture Of Elvis Cured My Cancer
09 Child Abuse
10 Kiss My Baby
11 Love Really Sucks
12 Long Time Ago
13 Cemeteries

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ariedl wrote:
DownSouth wrote:Does anyone know the actual track list order of 'Town Burned Down'?

01 Lookout Mountain
02 Town Burned Down
03 Runaway Train
04 Elvis P Stole My Car
05 Down On Me
06 6 O'Clock Train
07 Buttholeville
08 Picture Of Elvis Cured My Cancer
09 Child Abuse
10 Kiss My Baby
11 Love Really Sucks
12 Long Time Ago
13 Cemeteries


Thank you. Now I can listen in the intended order instead of everything being track 0.

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is the streaming link in the original post dead? any other place to listen to it?

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I wanna say I downloaded it from atruersound a couple yrs ago might check there.

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thanks sub. no dice there, tho. it directed me back to the dbt facebook page which directed me to a dbt twitter feed which sent me to the same dead link originally posted.

not once along the way was i asked to purchase anything sold, bought or processed by suits. which is nice.

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Does anyone know a good link to this album? I went through some computer changes and lost my download of it.

I found a version on another site (http://captainsdead.com/adams-house-cats-town-burned-down.html), but there are a lot of songs that were on the (official-ish) SoundCloud version that are missing, like "Cemeteries" and "Buttholeville".

(Also wondering where some of the songs on the other link come from - I know the early version of "Nine Bullets" is DBT from a comp).

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mlmitchem wrote:Does anyone know a good link to this album? I went through some computer changes and lost my download of it.

I found a version on another site (http://captainsdead.com/adams-house-cats-town-burned-down.html), but there are a lot of songs that were on the (official-ish) SoundCloud version that are missing, like "Cemeteries" and "Buttholeville".

(Also wondering where some of the songs on the other link come from - I know the early version of "Nine Bullets" is DBT from a comp).


I'm not sure if "Santa's Out of Rehab" on the Captain's Dead site is different but "Hope Santa’s Out of Rehab for Xmas" by the Truckers is from The Flagpole Christmas Album.

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Oh cool. And it looks like the song "Since You Came Into My Life" is actually "Love Really Sucks" and "Ask Yourself Why" is "Cemeteries", but not sure if they're the same versions.

Still no luck on finding a link to the real version though! I hate when you think of an album or song and you can't find it and you get obsessed over it!!! :x

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If you send me your email addy I'll send you the songs via dropbox or google drive.

For your viewing pleasure, I found a couple of photos I took of Adam's House Cat back when I fancied myself a photographer.

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wasnt there talk recently of putting this thing out for real, or am i imagining that?

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Shakespeare wrote:wasnt there talk recently of putting this thing out for real, or am i imagining that?


I'm not sure how long ago it was but I'm pretty sure Patterson has mentioned giving it an official release at some point.

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