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Hood has always straddled the line between Southern rock grit and literary confession, and that tension is what makes his solo work feel distinct from even his finest Drive-By Truckers output. These songs carry the weight of a writer who spent years sitting with difficult material before figuring out the right form for it, characters and all.
Patterson Hood, one of the principal songwriters of raucous rockers Drive-By Truckers, is slated to return with his third solo album, Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance, due out in September 2012. The songs on the album began in the form of a novel Hood was working on, a fictional but semi-autobiographical account of a dark time in the singer's late twenties. The book remained unfinished, but the characters and events he began chronicling in written form translated well into song.
Tracklist
1. 12:01 (3:14)
2. Leaving Time (3:31)
3. Disappear (3:20)
4. Better Off Without (2:39)
5. (Untold Pretties) (3:45)
6. After The Damage (4:35)
7. Better Than The Truth (3:04)
8. Betty Ford (3:01)
9. Depression Era (3:53)
10. Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance (4:18)
11. Come Back Little Star (5:01)
12. Fifteen Days (Leaving Time Again) (4:22)
UPC: 880882181826
Label: ATO Records
Release Date: 9.11.12
Format: CD