L to R: Patterson Hood, Brad Morgan, Matt Patton, Mike Cooley, Jay Gonzalez Drive-By Truckers Credit: Photo by Brantley Gutierrez
The Truckers’ Patterson Hood played two solo shows in Ybor City last year, but this stop find his Athens, Georgia rock and roll band on tour in support of a new album, Welcome 2 Club VIII, which plays like a tip of the cap to the band’s honky-tonkin, Muscle Shoals origin.

Lydia Loveless—a heartbreaking, almost unrivaled Americana songwriter and Bloodshot Records signee—opens the show.

This article appears in Apr 13-19, 2023.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...