reviews

Austin360.com 05 Sept 2007: "I cope by drinking LOTS of water and LOTS of very cold beer. I used to drink the blood of teenaged runaways in the summer, but my wife found that really creepy and made me stop."


JamBase 17 Sept 2007: "'Spreading alcoholism far and wide for 22 years,' quipped Hood. It's all just lubrication for an engine that burns hot and hard, churning out songs about the real hurt we deal each other, the endless musing smart blue collar boys suffer, the shit jobs they swallow and the good times snuck in between shifts."

The Washington Post 06 Dec 2006: "When the singer of an active band plays a solo show, the between-songs banter will be just as big a part of the show as the songs..."

Reno Gazette-Journal 15 July 2004: "There’s an interesting story behind this first solo record from one of the Drive-By Truckers’ singer-songwriters..."

Billboard 8 May 2004: "Rarely tuneful and often sloppy, the album nevertheless contains some incredibly fine songs..."

East Bay Express 16 June 2004: "Hood's moody folk songs are slower and darker than the Truckers' current fist-pumping material..."

PopMatters 9 June 2004: "Complacency is often a very negative influence, especially on artists who used to be known for their fiery, prolific personae..."

The Macon Telegraph 28 May 2004: "He recorded the album in two days in a kitchen. Alone. The results? Like the commercial says... brilliant!"

Gwinette Daily 28 May 2004: "Things just didn’t look good for the man whose raspy voice and poignant lyrics have catapulted the Truckers to national fame..."

Knoxville News-Sentinel 23 May 2004: "Patterson Hood was obviously bursting with creativity in 2001..."

Creative Loafing 27 May 2004: "In Hood's universe, our traditional Southern sounds aren't ends in themselves, to be admired and parroted; they're tools with which we struggle to make sense of our emotions and our places in the world..."

Glide Magazine 26 May 2004: "It’s impossible for just an acoustic six-string and Hood’s voice, marinated in Maker’s Mark, to hide his vulnerability and frustration..."

Eye Weekly 20 May 2004: "Too stark for casual listening, it'll be salve to the souls of anyone trying to navigate through similar terrain..."

Austin Chronicle 21 May 2004: "It's stark and lo-fi, haunting, beautiful, and ragged..."

Metro Pulse 22 April 2004: "It’s understandable that these demos would become something of an underground hit..."

NewsObserver.com 3 May 2004: "Three years ago, Patterson Hood was in a bad way -- recently divorced and on the outs with almost everyone he knew, including his band, the Driveby Truckers..."

AllMusic.com 4 May 2004: "Drive-By Truckers's leader Patterson Hood wrote and recorded the twelve songs on Killers and Stars in 2001 during what was, by his own admission, a dark and difficult time in his life..."

Winston-Salem Journal (4th down): "Patterson Hood has found fame, and a little infamy, as the leader of The Drive By Truckers, a guitar-pummeling band that created a new take on Southern rock that owes as much to punk as to blues..."

Washington Post 5 May 2004: "Alone in his dining room, he makes raw, sparse music about broken relationships, crumbling lives..."

Pitchfork 10 May 2004: "For more than a decade, Hood has been transforming all that preys on him into songs that are loud, rowdy, and angry, but also humorous, intelligent, and compassionate..."