Nashville, TN – (June 22, 2016) – the new Drive-By Truckers album American Band in stores September 30th. NPR Music premiered the Mike Cooley-penned “Surrender Under Protest” this morning, saying: “it’s like a lost track from Exile On Main Street, imbued with higher consciousness.”
Hear it: http://www.npr.org/2016/06/21/482780892/songs-we-love-drive-by-truckers-surrender-under-protest

American Band is an urgent and timely protest album, with the songwriting split almost evenly between Patterson Hood and Cooley. Hood says: “Drive-By Truckers are celebrating our twentieth anniversary as a band in an election year where some people are trying to define what it is to be American. Definitions based on some outdated ideology of prejudice and fear. We are loudly proclaiming that those people don’t speak for us. America is and always has been a land of immigrants and ideals. Ideals that we have often fallen short of achieving, but it’s the striving that has given us whatever claims to greatness we have had. That’s what America means to us and “We’re an American Band’.”
While Ann Powers perhaps sums it up best: “It’s a small gift, within these challenging days, that one of the nation’s best bands has made what very well might be its greatest album.”

Tour dates (more to come):
7/13 – Lowdown Hudson Music Festival – New York, NY *

7/17 – 12th Annual Targee Fest – Alta, WA *

8/19 – Belly Up – Aspen, CO

8/20 – Red Rocks Ampitheater – Morrison, CO †

8/27 – Moontower Music Festival – Lexington, KY *

9/16 – Toronto Urban Roots Festival – Toronto, ON *

9/17 – Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival – Fredericton, NB *

9/23 – Crossroads – Kansas City, MO ‡

9/24 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN §

9/25 – The District – Sioux Falls, SD §

9/28 – The Wilma – Missoula, MT §

9/29 – Showbox at The Market – Seattle, WA §

9/30 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR §

10/1 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR §

10/2 – Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, BC §

10/5 – Ace of Spades – Sacramento, CA §

10/6 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA §

10/7 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA §

10/8 – Montbleau Resort Casino – Lake Tahoe, CA §

10/11 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA §

10/12 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA §

10/14 – Fremont Theater – San Luis Obispo, CA §

10/15 – Livewire – Scottsdale, AZ §
* – festival appearance

† – w/ Yonder Mountain String Band and special guests Preservation Hall Jazz Band

‡ – w/ Jay Farrar Trio

§ – w/ special guest Lydia Loveless