Friday, January 29, 2010

Speaking of Drive By Truckers

As some of you may know, I've been spending the week in Cincinnati. One of the things I always try to do when I hit a new city is check out the local record stores. Thanks to some help from a few locals, I got some great tips for where the good record finds are in Cincinnati. Places like Everybody's Records & Mole's Records which is a sleepy little store right off UC campus that any vinyl hunter could easily spend a week in if unchecked (crates from floor to ceiling completely unsorted). One of the record stores I was told I HAD to go to was Shake-It Records. Shake-It from what I gather is somewhat of an institution in Cincinnati, and rightly so as it's one of the most eclectic, friendly, and organized record stores I've been to.

Now, on to the subject of this post. Shake-It Records is also a record label, and luckily for me, their latest offering is a Drive-By Truckers 7" that is Vol. 2 in a tribute to Muscle Shoals session legend Eddie Hinton (Vol. 1 is by Cincinnati native Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs). Now, click that Eddie Hinton link there because there is some interesting info there. For instance the DBT song Sandwiches  For The Road is based on the life of Eddie Hinton. As Dana Carvey would say in his Johnny Carson impression "I did not know that".

Now I haven't had a chance to listen to this yet, because my turntable is back home in Virginia, but I just wanted to give everyone a heads up on this. What I can give you though is a killer live version of side B: Everybody Needs Love

Download Drive-By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love (Live) here

Order Dangerous Highway: A Tribute To The Songs of  Eddie Hinton here
Posted by Truersound at 1:36 AM
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2010 at 12:57 PM

    Both sides of this 45 are killer. Side one's "Where's Eddie" is late night soul at it's best w/ Shonna's sublime vocals. Side two's "Everbody Needs Love" sounds like it was cut at Muscle Shoals circa 1968, Patterson Hood unleashes his inner soul man w/ great results. Just can't get this record off my turntable.

    Thanks, Mike

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  2. Axe VictimJanuary 29, 2010 at 3:21 PM

    Man I am so loving Girls Who Smoke right now. Can't believe it's a vinyl only track though. Would kill for a studio version of it right now. There's something about this band that is so much more than any that has come before. Can't put my finger on it but it probably has something to do with reality. Keeping it real is so important. Gonna download these tunes though. Cant wait. See you on my blog dude!

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  3. SmittyJanuary 31, 2010 at 9:00 PM

    search the big to do on allmusic.com and you can hear 30 sec snippets of the tracks (sans girls who smoke)

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM

    if s store/label actaully went to the well to honor Eddie Hinton, and with this kind of talent (I hear there's more vols. to come) - then DAMN, a grateful nation should applaud them.

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  5. PsyclistFebruary 3, 2010 at 8:40 PM

    The live track comes from this show: http://www.archive.org/details/dbt2009-08-08.akg460.flac16 and is available with permission of the band, there's plenty of DBT shows here. Some absolute killer shows.

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  6. TruersoundFebruary 4, 2010 at 12:06 AM

    Thanks peter, I wasn't sure where that track came from.

    TS

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  7. PsyclistFebruary 4, 2010 at 9:05 AM

    You're welcome, one of the DBT truckers had Dexateens as opening, hadn't heard of them until YOU recommended them... so it's me saying thx:)

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