Biggest news in recent months from camp Drive-By came from the departure of Jason Isbell, with John Neff being promoted to full-time status in the band's Southern-fried three axe attack. And since then, those crazy mother Truckers have been on The Dirt Underneath tour, an acoustic tour with Spooner Oldham along for the ride, showing off lots of new Cooley and Hood tunes. Nine Bullets has posted nine of those songs after trolling archive.org for live rips, and he seems psyched on D-BT's direction, saying it's "a much stronger crop of songs than they had on A Blessing and A Curse....thank god."
In other Drive-By news, the Truckers and Spooner will be the backing band on Bettye LaVette's new record The Scene Of The Crime, out 9/25 on ANTI-. We'll get you a listen soon, and it's nice to have all this activity on the Trucker front, but really it's just reminding us that Bonnaroo ain't gonna be the same without 'em.
