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Drive-By Truckers perform on Sound Opinions
Andrew Gill | Apr. 21, 2011
The Drive-By Truckers are known for their haunting southern gothic songs. However on their latest album, Go-Go Boots, they dip their toes into classic R&B. It's not surprising that the band can so easily and convincingly shift gears knowing that frontman Patterson Hood's father was a member of famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. That all white Rhythm Section backed artists like Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett on some of the biggest R&B hits of the 60's and 70's. Two of the most striking songs from the Go-Go Boots album ("Where's Eddie" and "Everybody Needs Love") were written in that era by Rhythm Section member Eddie Hinton.
The band recently visited our Jim and Kay Mabie Performance Studio and performed four songs from that album in a stripped down, yet soulful setting. The most memorable of those to me was "Where's Eddie", sung by bassist Shona Tucker. Enjoy videos of that performance here and check out Sound Opinions this week to hear their interview.
Where's Eddie
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I saw you guys at Tip's Uptown in New Orleans for thr show on the weekend that Katrina hit.(2005)
I will admit that show was the greatest show I have ever witnessed, and that was the greatest night of my life.
I went and saw you all about a year later at the same place.
I still have the poster for that show that I took off a creosote light pole on the wall in my kitchen.
People ask my about it all the time, and that's when I put an album in the player for them.
One thing is sure in my mind, ya'll are the tits!
I own every album except my favorite-'Southern Rock Opera'
Maybe I will buy one when you all return to N.O....
Wilson Pickett was one of the greatest to record in the Muscle Shoals area. Pickett’s “Mustang Sally” was a Top 10 hit in 1966, written and first recorded by R&B great Sir Mack Rice in 1965. The song’s title was “Mustang Mama” until Rice played it for Aretha Franklin, who suggested “Mustang Sally.” On my Rockaeology blog at http://bit.ly/gMVk6t Rice says that Pickett, a last-minute replacement for Clyde McPhatter, covered the song after hearing Rice sing it at the Apollo theater.