New Hood Shows…

An almost handfull of new Patterson solo shows were announced today making for quite a busy December(and some great Christmas money). The new shows are all in Georgia including two at good ole Eddie’s Attic.As of right now Patterson’s December schedule looks something like this:
Fri Nov 29 Valdosta GA Ashley Street Station Patterson Hood Solo
Sat Nov 30 Valdosta GA Ashley Street Station Patterson Hood Solo
Tue Dec 3 Atlanta GA Eddie’s Attic Patterson Hood Solo
Fri Dec 06 San Francisco, CA The Chapel Patterson Hood Solo
Sat Dec 07 Santa Cruz, CA Don Quixote’s International Music Hall Patterson Hood Solo
Tue Dec 10 Atlanta GA Eddie’s Attic Patterson Hood Solo
Fri Dec 13 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge Patterson Hood Solo w/ T. Hardy Morris
Sat Dec 14 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge Patterson Hood Solo w/ T. Hardy Morris

Let Them Guitars Blast…

Church blew up in Birmingham
Four little black girls killed for no goddamn good reason
All this hate and violence can’t come to no good end
A stain on the good name.
A whole lot of good people dragged threw the blood and glass
Blood stains on their good names and all of us take the blame

Meanwhile in North Alabama, Wilson Pickett comes to town
To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound

Meanwhile in North Alabama, Aretha Franklin comes to town
To record that sweet soul music, to get that Muscle Shoals sound

And out in California, a rock star from Canada writes a couple of great songs about the
Bad shit that went down
“Southern Man” and “Alabama” certainly told some truth
But there were a lot of good folks down here and Neil Young wasn’t around

Meanwhile in North Alabama, Lynyrd Skynyrd came to town
To record with Jimmy Johnson at Muscle Shoals Sound
And they met some real good people, not racist pieces of shit
And they wrote a song about it and that song became a hit

Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
Rock stars today ain’t half as real
Speaking there minds on how they feel
Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil

Now Ronnie and Neil became good friends their feud was just in song
Skynyrd was a bunch of Neil Young fans and Neil he loved that song
So He wrote “Powderfinger” for Skynyrd to record
But Ronnie ended up singing “Sweet Home Alabama” to the lord

And Neil helped carry Ronnie in his casket to the ground
And to my way of thinking, us southern men need both of them around

Ronnie and Neil Ronnie and Neil
Rock stars today ain’t half as real
Speaking their minds on how they feel
Let them guitars blast for Ronnie and Neil

FEB 14…

According to a post on the DBT book of face next year’s annual homecoming shows at The Fabulous 40 Watt will be moving from their traditional weekend in January to February. Could be the best Valentine’s Day ever but only time will tell.

Halloween Right On Earth…

Tickets are now on sale for the Halloween Rock Show. DBT will be playing the VIC Theatre in Chicago on Halloween night dressed up as who know’s what. I think it would be funny if they dressed up as each other or maybe all dressed up like Matt Patton. Big smiles and see y’all at the Rock Shows.

Let There Be Fall Tour…

From the things are heating up department DBT just announced 8 new fall Rock Shows w/Old 97s as support. The tour begins October 30th in Debouque IL at Diamond Joe Casino and of right now there is no show scheduled for Halloween. But if I was a betting man(and I am), I would bet you my signed copy of Your Woman Is A Living Thing that there will be a Halloween Rock Show somewhere in the midwest. Below are the officially announced Rock Shows. See y’all there!

Fri Jul 12 Steamboat CO Steamboat Free Summer Concert Series
Sun Jul 14 Telluride CO The Ride Festival
Thu Aug 01 Birmingham AL IRON CITY  w/T. Hardy Morris
Fri Aug 23 Athens GA Georgia Theater w/Dexateens
Sat Aug 24 Athens GA Georgia Theater w/Fly Golden Eagle
Sat Oct 19 Live Oak FL Magnolia Music Festival
Wed Oct 30 Debouque IL Diamond Jo Casino
Fri Nov 01 Detroit MI Royal Oak w/ OLD 97s
Sat Nov 02 Toronto ON Phoenix Ballroom w/ OLD 97s
Sun Nov 03 Buffalo NY Town Ballroom w/ OLD 97s
Tue Nov 05 Philadelphia PA TLA w/ OLD 97s
Wed Nov 06 Columbus OH Newport Music Hall w/ OLD 97s
Thu Nov 07 Bloomington IN Bluebird Theater
Fri Nov 08 Covington KY Madison Theater w/ OLD 97s

Come Back Little Star…

Patterson has been out on the road with his fantastic band Downtown Rumblers featuring Jay Gonzalez and The Ezy-B. If you were not able to make it out to any of the shows here’s a little of what you might have missed over the last few weeks. Thanks to Jonicont and Big Tom for this awesome clip and recording.The band has one more show on the books scheduled for this Sunday at Athfest.

Note From Cooley…

This was just posted on The DBT Facebook Page:
There was this heavy box I carried around with me for years. I would
pick it up, put it in the truck, haul it to the next place and that’s
where it stayed until it was time to move again. It was full of small
caliber handgun and rifle cartridges, and shotgun shells of various
size and shot patterns. It wouldn’t be considered a stockpile by
today’s standards, and I didn’t have any use for it then, but I
inherited it and the guns that went with it from my father. So I would
toss it into the pile with the rest of the baggage I wasn’t ready to
part with and pretend I was moving on.

My Dad owned a store. Similar to a convenience store, but located in
the rural community where we lived, so it still functioned like a
traditional country store,complete with a set of regulars that stopped
by almost every day to chat. And without cable tv ( it’s still not
available there), 24/7 news , and the internet still over 20 years
away, country stores and old ole boys had a wireless bullshit delivery
system nonetheless. And good old boys never talk long without talking
about guns.

I didn’t think much about it at the time, but every now and then my
Dad would come home convinced something was about to happen with
regard to guns and ammo that required “stocking up.” There were going
to be limits on the number of boxes you could by. The price was going
to reach unaffordable levels. “They” were going to make it so that you
couldn’t even buy guns any more or be able to use the ones you had.
And this information was never reported in the news because “they”
don’t want you to know it. That’s how that heavy assed box came to
be, and would eventually come to me.

One night before I inherited all those bullets, I got shot at. They
wouldn’t have done me any good since I was trespassing. I’m pretty
sure firing shots at the owner of the property you’re trespassing on
makes it worse. Anyway I was with a couple of friends and we were
rolling this guys yard. His house was on a hill at the end of a long
driveway with woods in between. We heard the door open and the lights
came on and we ran through the woods toward the road. He fired 2 maybe
3 shots and I could hear the bullets going through the trees alongside
us. I don’t know if he was actually trying to hit us,and I’m not even
sure if he could see us, but he didn’t just fire in the air either. It
had to be obvious we were running away even if it wasn’t obvious we
were just kids pulling a prank.

On another evening I was home with my parents and some of my friends
thought it would be funny to steal the hubcaps off my car. We heard a
noise and my Dad could see someone moving around outside. He got his
gun, threw open the door and yelled “I’ll blow your head off you son
of a bitch”. One of my friends stood up from behind the car with his
hands up saying “don’t shoot Mr Cooley it’s me”. My Dad was red and
shaking all over from fear and embarrassment. He’d almost shot a kid
pulling a prank.

The inability to defend ones home or even the thought of that level of
helplessness brings to mind images that are frightening for anyone,
and my father and the man who shot at me belonged to a class and
generation of men that were especially motivated that very fear.
Robbing a man of the ability to defend his home was the last
degrading thing the world could do to him. A world that many of the
men of my dad’s generation and class saw as having it in for them in
the first place. And that was enough to make anything less than an
armed response, a weak response.

I never told my Dad I got shot at pulling a prank, and the man who did
it outlived him.

I got rid of that box of ammo. If I need to do some shooting, I can buy more.
And there was never a time when I couldn’t.

— Cooley

Marry Me…

Congratulations to Jenn and Matt who got married this past Saturday night at The Fabulous 40 Watt. Jenn and Matt were lucky enough to have Slobberbone and DBT play their reception. Here’s a bit of what you missed if you weren’t lucky enough to be on the guestlist. Thanks to Sloan for the audio(you can download both sets from Saturday night over at Southern Shelter) and especially to Jenn and Matt for being such a kick ass couple that they wanted to share some of their special night with all of us.

But I Saw Thundercrack! Motherfuckers…

In honor of this week’s shows here’s one fresh of the presses from the opening night of this year’s homecoming run at the Fabulous 40 Watt. Turn it up as the audio sounds killer. And look out for this new version of DBT on tour on the East Coast this week. See y’all at the Rock Show!

Let There Be March Tour…

The Rock Show will be on the road this March. Starting out in Macon before winding up the East Coast with a bunch of shows in the New England area and a stop at the newly renovated Capitol Theatre in Port Chester. Tickets are now on sale the official DBT site. See y’all at the Rock Show:

Sat Mar 2 Macon, GA The Big Bird Bash
Tue Mar 5 Saxapahaw, NC  Haw River Ballroom
Wed Mar 6 Charlottesville, VA  Jefferson Theater
Thu Mar 7 New Haven, CT  Toad’s Place
Fri Mar 8 Providence, RI  Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
Sat Mar 9 Portland, ME  State Theatre
Sun Mar 10 Burlington, VT  Higher Ground
Wed Mar 13 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
Thu Mar 14 Northampton, MA Calvin Theatre
Fri Mar 15 Chester, NY  The Capitol Theatre w/ Old 97s
Sat Mar 16 Montclair, NJ  Wellmont Theatre w/ Old 97s
Sun Mar 17 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live w/ Old 97s