Drive-By Truckers in Portland

Drive-By Truckers are an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1996 by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley. Their Southern rock and alternative-country songs often draw on the history, politics and everyday life of the American South. The band is known for the albums Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day and The Dirty South, and for songs including “Outfit,” “Let There Be Rock” and “Where the Devil Don’t Stay.” The 2007 Dirt Underneath tour brought quieter arrangements into seated theatres. In 2008, Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady mounted the joint Rock and Roll Means Well tour, and the 2024 Southern Rock Opera Revisited tour returned to the earlier double album in full. Their festival history includes Bonnaroo in Tennessee and the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island.