Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)

Drive-By Trucker's second solo album features many songs written years ago, but the whole still hangs together and comes across as cohesive and sharp.

Drive-By Trucker Patterson Hood started writing the songs for his second solo record Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) back in the early ’90s—which means the album was in the gestation stage for about as long as Chinese Democracy. But unlike Axl Rose’s belabored boondoggle, Murdering Oscar doesn’t feel 10 years…

Patterson Hood wrote half the songs on this...

Across Murdering Oscar, Patterson Hood’s songs fall into a folksy rut.

Patterson Hood is one of those songwriters for whom the pen moves faster than the mind. He writes, records, writes, records

Drive-By Trucker thumbs his back pages for second solo album