EARVOLUTION: Thursday's Earful: Drive-By Truckers; White Stripes; The Allman Brothers Band

By: David Schultz

When you've gone through the whole record-release-tour- develop side project cycle enough times that you can do it on auto-pilot, how do you go about keeping things fresh? It seems that the answer is: star in your own documentary. The White Stripes will accompany the March 16 release of Under Great White Northern Lights with an Emmett Malloy directed documentary of the same name. The songs and the footage come from The Stripes' 2007 jaunt across Canada with Under Nova Scotian Lights, their 10th Anniversary concert, getting a separate DVD release treatment.

The Drive-By Truckers will also be multi-tasking this year, bundling the March 16 release of The Big To-Do, their eighth studio album, with a documentary of their own, The Secret To A Happy Ending. They describe the film as one "about the redemptive power of rock & roll; it's about the American South, where rock was born; it's about a band straddling the borders of rock, punk and country; it's about making art, making love and making a living; it's about the Drive-By Truckers." They surely haven't mellowed: the first single from the new album is entitled "This Fucking Job," which the Truckers are offering up as a sample taste.

AS THEY HAVE IN THE PAST, The Allman Brothers Band have added another five shows to their March residency, which will move from the Beacon Theater to new and larger digs at the United Palace. If you weren't able to get tickets for the first eight shows, try to free up March 22, 23, 25, 26 or 27. Unless you are a member of the Peach Corps or an American Express cardholder, tickets will be available February 6. The Allmans residency is one of the few remaining uncorrupted events still left in rock and roll and shouldn't be missed by anyone who considers themselves a true music lover.

Labels: Allman Brothers Band, Drive By Truckers, White Stripes

// posted by schultz @ 5:49 AM

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Thursday's Earful: Drive-By Truckers; White Stripes; The Allman Brothers Band

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