The Drive-By Truckers played a rousing free concert on Thursday, July 20, at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion — performing about half of the songs from their terrific 2016 album American Band, along with a cover of the Ramones’ “The KKK Took My Baby Away,” and, of course, some of the Truckers’ classic older tunes. During “Let There Be Rock,” Patterson Hood sang the song’s usual refrain (“And I never saw Lynyrd Skynyrd but I sure saw Molly Hatchet/With 38 Special and the Johnny Van Zant Band”), but he also added: “I never saw the Clash, but I saw the Replacements about seven times.” Hood and his longtime bandmate Mike Cooley switched back and forth on lead vocals throughout the set. The only flaw in the show was its relative brevity. I’m sure the Drive-By Truckers would have answered the audience’s clamoring pleas for an encore if Millennium Park had allowed them to play past 9 p.m. In any case, it was a delight to see one of America’s best rock bands playing a free show in this beautiful setting. (Set list.) And the opening act, an acoustic folk trio from Boston called Honeysuckle, was a nice bonus.
Lollapalooza Photos: Day One
Photos from the rest of Day One at Lollapalooza 2010. (See the separate galleries I posted earlier for pictures of Jimmy Cliff, the Strokes and Lady Gaga.)
This gallery includes photos of Wavves, the Walkmen, Mavis Staples (with Jeff Tweedy), the Big Pink, the Drive-By Truckers, the New Pornographers, the Dirty Projectors and the Black Keys.
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Drive-By Truckers meet Hold Steady
My review of Friday’s concert by the Drive-By Truckers and Hold Steady at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre is up at the Southtown Star Web site.