On his third solo album, currently in progress:
I wasn't even planning on recording it till December, and then I got a chance to go in and start on it a little early, and now I'm probably 80% done. It's got a pretty different feel overall. I was intentionally keeping this one pretty stripped down and kind of maybe somewhat quieter than a Truckers record. It's definitely a more personal, intimate record. I guess that's a better word: intimate. Not that the Truckers aren't capable of playing that way too, but the live show tends to gravitate towards that big, rock sound. This is a more intimate record. There's probably not a guitar solo anywhere on it.
DBT finally get some mainstream attention
"We actually got to take a little time off the road this summer," said Hood, whose father, bassist Dave Hood, was a longtime session musician with the famed Muscle Shoals studio band. "But I don't feel like we're over the hill yet. We're still out here playing, still releasing records, still being vital."
Patterson Hood talks Occupy Wall St, Turner Hall Show
The band’s press material talks about the great Southern tradition, “to take on the Man – or anyone else.” Is there a political element in the songs, and is this evolving in light of current events?
PH: We’ve always been a very political band, even though we usually address it in the form of telling a personal story as opposed to preaching about some cause, which basically is just preaching to the choir, something I don’t have the patience or inclination to do. I am all about the Occupy Wall Street movement, although I wish that some of the folks there didn’t act like stupid douchebags on national television. Acting like a douche does not help the cause. I try to only act like a douche in the privacy of my own home.
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