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Drive-By Truckers at The Canopy Club
Canopy Club
708 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 367-3140
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On the title track to Welcome 2 Club XIII, Drive-By Truckers pay homage to the Muscle Shoalshonky-tonk where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley got their start: aconcrete-floored dive lit like a disco, with the nightly promise of penny beerand truly dubiouscover bands. “There were no cool bars in town and Club XIII was the best we had—but it wasn’tall that good, and our band wasn’t particularly liked there,” says Hood, referring to thevocalist/guitarists’ former band Adam’s House Cat. “From time to time the owner would throw usa Wednesday night or let us open for a hair-metal band we were a terrible fit for, and everyonewould hang out outside until we were done playing. It wasn’t very funny at the time, but it’sfunny to us now.” The 14th studio album from Drive-By Truckers—whose lineup also includeskeyboardist/guitarist Jay Gonzalez, bassist Matt Patton, and drummer Brad Morgan—Welcome2 Club XIII looks back on their formative years with both deadpan pragmatism and profoundtenderness,instilling each song with the kind of lived-in detail that invites bittersweetreminiscence of your own misspent youth.