Welcome 2 Club XIII

Drive-By Truckers nod once again to their Southern roots on their 14th studio album and the follow-up to 2020’s *The Unraveling* and *The New OK*. Club XIII refers to a real bar in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood cut their teeth before forming the band, with lyrical references to the Truckers’ early days peppered across the album. Highlights on the LP, which the band recorded at Chase Park Transduction Studios in Athens, include opening track “The Driver,” which chronicles memories from early days on the road, and the contemplative “Shake and Pine.” Margo Price, Schaefer Llana, and R.E.M.’s Mike Mills all guest on the album.

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Drive-By Truckers' 'Welcome 2 Club XIII' is more introspective and subdued than the previous raw, unfiltered laments and analyses of American culture.

They return now with a (mostly) new direction for Welcome 2 Club XIII, keeping the fundamentals of their sound while taking a personal look back.

Drive-By Truckers’ 2004 release The Dirty South blended political commentary and historical fiction, frequently referencing the now-mythologized 1977 plane crash that resulted in the death of several members of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Throughout the album, DBT shape an epic lens on American politics and social hierarchy, spotlighting the legacy of Civil Rights legislation, the polarizing presence