Feb. 7, 2026

S9E447 - Drive-By Truckers 'American Band' with Rory Cox

S9E447 - Drive-By Truckers 'American Band' with Rory Cox

Longtime Patron and returning guest Rory Cox Zoomed-in all the way from Slovenia to discuss Athens, Georgia band Drive-By Truckers and their incendiary 2016 album, 'American Band'. Overtly political - and as timely today as the day it was released - this is protest music with the guitars turned to eleven!

Songs discussed in this episode: The KKK Took My Baby Away (Ramones cover) - Drive-By Truckers; Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd; Ronnie and Neil - Drive-By Truckers; Green Grass & High Tides - The Outlaws; Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd; I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) - Aretha Franklin; Ramon Casiano, Darkened Flags on the Cusp of Dawn - Drive-By Truckers; The South's Gonna Do It Again - Charlie Daniels Band; Surrender Under Protest, Guns Of Umpqua, Filthy and Fried, When The Sun Don't Shine - Drive-By Truckers; A Good Idea - Sugar; Kinky Hypocrite - Drive-By Truckers; Dead Flowers - The Rolling Stones; Ever South, Dead, Drunk and Naked - Drive-By Truckers; Cover Me Up - Jason Isbell; What It Means, Once They Banned Imagine, Baggage, Every Mother's Son (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover) - Drive-By Truckers 

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