Drive-By Truckers put on 'Go Go Boots'

Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers’ latest album, “The Big To-Do,” comes out March 16, but its follow-up is practically in the can.

“Go Go Boots” will feature songs recorded concurrently with “The Big To-Do” as part of a prolific explosion from the Southern rock group’s three songwriters — Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley and Shonna Tucker. “This is the first time we’ve been in that position,” Hood says. “There was just a lot of new material around, and we didn’t want to do another sprawling, long record like 2008’s 'Brighter Than Creation’s Dark.' So pretty early in the process we started dividing it into two albums.”

Hood says “Go Go Boots” has “more of an R&B vibe to it than 'The Big To-Do.' I call it our ’rhythm and blues murder ballads record.’ It’s about as different as it could be and still be the same band.”

DBT was finishing mixes on the final tracks before hitting the road for “The Big To-Do,” and Hood says the door is open to add more songs if any come along. But mostly he’s happy that the group doesn’t have to worry about what comes next.

“This is really the way I’ve always wanted to do it,” he says. “The whole two-year cycle between records has always bummed us out, so this enabled us to break that cycle. I would love by the time we put ’Go Go Boots’ out to be working on the follow-up to it.”

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