Hood does most of the writing and singing, his gravelly voice an isolated, worn dirt road that’s not easily traveled: a tire doesn’t stand a chance against some of those rocks - and you’ve got plenty of time to think about it while putting on the spare. The Truckers’ music is rowdy and loud while their vision is redneck through and through, but never losing sight of social and political realities.
After some personnel changes, the band evolved into Hood (vocals, guitar), Cooley (vocals, guitar), Rob Malone (vocals, guitar), Earl Hicks (bass), and Brad Morgan (drums). Hood, son of David Hood, a key session player in the original Muscle Shoals scene, got the idea for the Drive-by Truckers in 1996.
After re-hearing his musical past, he understood its greatness. Time, however, has a way of recasting the past, and one day, an older, wiser Patterson Hood found some Skynyrd records in a sale bin. AHC lasted until 1991-and didn’t play any Lynyrd Skynyrd either, a band these two Alabamans heard enough of growing up. Back in 1985, Patterson Hood met Mike Cooley at the University of North Alabama and the two formed Adam’s Housecat, a rootsy punk band that won Musician‘s “Best Unsigned Band” award in 1988 and recorded an album that was never released.
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