For its first few years, Drive-By Truckers was an alt-boogie band as crude and demented as its name.
Hood, the leader of the Athens, Georgia-based band the Drive-By Truckers, has thought about Southern images deeply.
Drive-By Truckers were among a dozen acts who performed during the grand reopening.
In an interview and performance with guest host Michaela Majoun, Drive-By Truckers' members play songs from Brighter Than Creation's Dark.
His first solo album in 20 years is Potato Hole, backed by members of Drive-By Truckers and Neil Young.
On trips through the South, for example, he's created playlists that have included crunk (Southern hip-hop) and Southern alternative-rock bands like Drive-By Truckers.
Backing her up: the churchy piano of Spooner "I Played with Aretha" Oldham, a wailing country guitar and the rootsy sidemen of Drive-By Truckers.
Co-founded by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley in 1996, Drive-By Truckers already had a firm musical base, straddling the line between Southern culture celebration and critique.
Drive-By Truckers' multi-guitar attack is classic swamp-rock.
In those days, the must-have gadget of the trucker craze was the CB radio, the method by which truckers kept in touch and warned each other of lurking "Smokies, " or police officers, setting speed traps.
The 100-ton donation from Britain was taken by Afghan truckers toward the northwestern city of Herat, about 110 kilometers (65 miles) from the Iranian border town of Dogharoun, said Marius de Gaay Fortman, a World Food Programme coordinator.
Supply chains are sometimes being snarled by delays as truckers stop at roadblocks erected by local citizens to check those passing through for signs of the disease.
The weakness of the euro against sterling means that imports are rising, and most of these are carried by continental European truckers.
The index, based on diesel fuel purchases by thousands of truckers around the country, fell roughly 1% in September, equivalent to a 10% annual contraction.
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In the wake of that crash, the NTSB called for a ban on talking on cellphones or texting by long-distance truckers.
On a hot recent day at a Georgia truck stop, truckers were especially attracted by the prospect of burning less diesel.
And in yet another case, our action (DOT's modernized hours-of-service rule for truckers) was overturned by a federal court but then reinstated by Congressional action.
Over the course of the recovery, truckers had been powered by sustained strength in manufacturing, even while stagnation in employment and a plateau for consumer spending threatened to derail the shipping segment.
But truckers predicted new taxes would merely open the way to more harassment by corrupt inspectors and policemen.
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