Fricke’s Picks: A Drive-By Trucker’s Solo Trip

Murdering Oscar (and other love songs) (Ruth St.), the new solo album by singer-guitarist Patterson Hood of roaring Georgians Drive-By Truckers, has a knotty back story. Hood was in rough straits in 1994 — recently divorced, without a band — when he began documenting the emotional wreckage in many of these songs: the sexual vengeance [...]

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