Right before Turkey Day we saw Patterson Hood doing an acoustic take on Go-Go Boots‘s “The Thanksgiving Filter.” Here’s the studio version of “Used To Be A Cop,” a whiskey-drenched downer in the spirit of “Glory Days” (via an unsettling Raymond Carver story).

• Drive-By Truckers – “Used To Be A Cop” 

Live:

Used to Be a Cop – Go-Go Boots – Drive-By Truckers from Drive-By Truckers on Vimeo.

Go-Go Boots is out 2/15 via ATO. You can pre-order it now.