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    XPN Welcomes Drive By Truckers

    XPN Welcomes Drive By Truckers

    Presented by Electric Factory at Electric Factory

    April 3, 2010


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    From AllMusic.com:

    Flaunting a mix of Southern pride, erudite lyrics, and a muscled three-guitar attack, Drive-By Truckers became one of the most well-respected alternative country-rock acts of the 2000s. Led by frontman Patterson Hood and comprising a rotating cast of Georgia and Alabama natives, the band celebrated the South while refusing to paint over its spotty past. History, folklore, politics, and character studies all shared equal space in the Truckers catalog, which offered up its first blast of gutsy, twangy rock with 1998's Gangstabilly. However, it was the band's ambitious double-disc concept album, The Southern Rock Opera, that became their unlikely magnum opus. A two-act affair, the album explored Patterson Hood's fascination with 1970s Southern rock (specifically Lynyrd Skynyrd) while tackling the cultural contradictions of the region.


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        Electric Factory

        421 N. 7th Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19123

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        Tickets: $25

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        April 3, 2010

        Times:
        8 pm

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