Drive-By Truckers to release new album Jan. 22

Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley continue to be DBT’s primary songwriters, a relationship that started over twenty-two years ago when the two began playing together. The band’s longtime bassist, Shonna Tucker, makes her debut on Brighter Than Creation’s Dark as the band’s third writer, contributing three of the record’s nineteen tracks. Founding member John Neff, who has frequently guested on albums and onstage over the years, is an official member now, playing pedal steel and guitar. He and drummer Brad Morgan round out the band’s recording and touring line up.

Legendary Muscle Shoals keyboardist Spooner Oldham, to whom the album is dedicated, lends his unmistakable classic soul sound to the record, as he did for the band’s last tour. The album also marks the sixth time the band has worked with producer David Barbe, whose Chase Park Transduction studio in Athens, GA was the site of last summer’s recording.

DBT recently backed R&B vocalist Bettye Lavette on her critically acclaimed, Grammy®-nominated album The Scene of The Crime. The album is nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Album and was co-produced by Patterson Hood and long time DBT producer David Barbe.

Brighter Than Creation’s Dark Track Listing

1. Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife

2. 3 Dimes Down

3. The Righteous Path

4. I’m Sorry Huston

5. Perfect Timing

6. Daddy Needs A Drink

7. Self Destructive Zones

8. Bob

9. Home Field Advantage

10. The Opening Act

11. Lisa’s Birthday

12. That Man I Shot

13. The Purgatory Line

14. The Home Front

15. Checkout Time In Vegas

16. You And Your Crystal Meth

17. Goode’s Field Road

18. A Ghost To Most

19. The Monument Valley

DBT on tour:

Mon Feb 11 Anaheim, CA HOUSE OF BLUES

Tue Feb 12 Los Angeles CA AVALON

Wed Feb 13 San Francisco CA MEZZANINE

Fri Feb 15 Portland OR ROSELAND

Sat Feb 16 Seattle WA SHOWBOX

Sun Feb 17 Seattle WA SHOWBOX

Tue Feb 19 Boise ID BIG EASY CONCERT HOUSE

Wed Feb 20 Salt Lake City UT THE PALADIUM

Thu Feb 21 Aspen CO BELLY UP

Fri Feb 22 Denver CO OGDEN THEATRE

Sat Feb 23 Boulder CO FOX THEATRE

Mon Feb 25 Omaha NE SLOWDOWN

Tue Feb 26 Columbia MO THE BLUE NOTE

Wed Feb 27 Urbana IL THE CANOPY CLUB

Thu Feb 28 Milwaukee WI PABST THEATRE

Fri Feb 29 St Louis MO THE PAGEANT

Sat Mar 01 Louisville KY HEADLINERS MUSIC HALL

Fri Mar 14 Memphis TN MINGLEWOOD HALL

Sat Mar 15 Nashville TN CANNERY BALLROOM

Sun Mar 16 Newport KY SOUTHGATE HOUSE

Tue Mar 18 Millvale PA MR. SMALL’S THEATER

Wed Mar 19 Toronto ONT OPERA HOUSE

Thu Mar 20 Montreal QUE CABARET MUSIC HALL

Fri Mar 21 Northampton MA PEARL STREET

Sat Mar 22 Boston MA PARADISE ROCK CLUB

Tue Mar 25 New Haven CT TOAD’S PLACE

Wed Mar 26 New York NY TERMINAL 5

Thu Mar 27 Philadelphia PA THE FILMORE AT THE TLA

Fri Mar 28 Richmond VA THE NATIONAL

Sat Mar 29 Asheville NC THE ORANGE PEEL