DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS RECEIVE AMERICANA MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS FOR ‘DUO/GROUP OF THE YEAR’ AND ‘ALBUM OF THE YEAR’
May 10, 2017
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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS RECEIVE AMERICANA MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS FOR ‘DUO/GROUP OF THE YEAR’ AND ‘ALBUM OF THE YEAR’ + PERFORMED “OUTFIT” WITH JASON ISBELL
“WHAT IT MEANS” AND “ONCE THEY BANNED IMAGINE” FROM AMERICAN BAND ALSO PERFORMED DURING NOMINATION LIVESTREAM
SUMMER TOUR INCL. NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL, PICKATHON
+ MORE BEGINS JUNE 9
“We are honored to not only be nominated but to have performed at this year’s Americana Music Award nominations,” said Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers. “American Band is a particularly meaningful album for us and we appreciate it being recognized.”
Yesterday the Americana Music Awards live streamed their 2017 nominations from the Ford Theatre at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and Drive-By Truckers were thrilled to be nominated in two categories, ‘Duo/Group of the Year’ and ‘Album of the Year’.
During the nominations co-founding band members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley performed the tracks “What It Means” and “Once They Banned Imagine” from the critically acclaimed album American Band, which was followed by an exciting reunion performance with former DBT member and GRAMMY award winning solo artist Jason Isbell performing his song “Outfit”. The Americana Honors & Awards will take place this fall on Wednesday, September 13th at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Released last September, American Band‘s considerable force can be credited to this band’s outspoken, distinctly American storytelling with craft, character and concept all backed by sonic ambition and social conscience. The band will continue to tour in 2017 in support of the record with an upcoming summer run that includes appearances at Newport Folk Festival, WXPN’s XPoNential Fest and they just added a July 22nd date at the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. All upcoming dates are listed below.
TOUR DATES
6/9 – Bloomington, IL – Castle Theater
6/10 – Eau Claire, WI – Blue Ox Music Festival
6/11 – Fargo, ND – The Sanctuary
6/13 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
6/14 – Des Moines, IA – Simon Estes Amphitheater
6/16 – Boulder, CO – Chautauqua Auditorium
6/17 – Boulder, CO – Chautauqua Auditorium
6/30 – Snowmass, CO – BLUEBIRD Art + Sound
7/20 – Chicago, IL – Millennium Park Music Series
7/21 – Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Beer Garden
7/22 – Cleveland, OH – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
7/23 – Trumansburg, NY – Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival
7/25 – Albany, NY – The Egg
7/26 – Hartford, CT – Infinity Hall Hartford
7/27 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall
7/28 – Westhampton Beach, NY – Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center
7/29 – Newport, RI – Newport Music Festival
7/30 – Camden, NJ – XPoNential Music Festival
8/4 – Salt Lake City, UT – Red Butte Garden Amphitheater
8/5 – 8/6 – Happy Valley, OR – Pickathon 2017
9/16 – Telluride, CO – Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
9/17 – Telluride, CO – Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
“Their activism goes beyond the album.” – USA Today
“A great Southern band in unbeatable form, jabbing at received wisdom and curdled traditions.” – New York Times
“American Band is absolutely the record America needed in 2016 and it is still the one we need going forward.” – Aquarium Drunkard
“This time, though … this time is different. Drive-By Truckers, in their 20th year as a band, made the best record of their lives and their boldest statement.” – Bitter Southerner
“‘American Band’ comes from the very distinct perspective of a group that remains burdened by, and reckoning with, its own bloody Southern history.” – Rolling Stone
“Taken as a whole, American Band is the group’s most thematically coherent work since their pinnacle of Jason Isbell-assisted records in the early 2000s.”
– American Songwriter
“Though they’re not shy of a tincture of punk-rock sarcasm, the Truckers’ songs are about complication and empathy, not easy morals.” – Slate
“The record isn’t driven by unfocused anger: It’s a poignant take on what it means to be an American in a time when uncertainty and fear are omnipresent.” – NPR
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Photo Credit: Danny Clinch
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