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Please Welcome to the Little House Standard Deluxe:
An evening with PATTERSON HOOD
(of Drive-By Truckers)

Sunday, DECEMBER 7, 2025

Gates / Bar / Supper 5:00 pm
Showtime : 7:30 pm

Admission: $75.00
All Tickets are General Admission
ONLY 50 Tickets Available !

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Drive-By Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood’s fourth solo album
and first in over 12 years, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams sees
the veteran singer, guitarist, and songwriterexploring his youth and
young manhood in a collection unlike anything in his ever-evolving
catalogue. A baroque American song cycle spanning the time between
early childhood and leaving his rural home town in search of his
musical dreams, the album gathers songs that have amassed over
the remarkably prolific songwriter’s career, many of which provided
him with distraction and creative sustenance during lockdown, others
which have residedamong his notebooksfor years.

“This record has all these kinds of unintended themes,”Hood says.
“It’s all subconscious,because I didn’t really set out with an agenda,
writing-wise. It really just kind of occurred tome when I was actually
putting it all together, just how much it seems to have a theme to it.”

The dozen years since his last extracurricular outing, 2012’s Heat
Lightning Rumbles in theDistance, had seen Hood accumulate a
cache of material which did not quite fit into the Drive-By Truckers
canon, songs which he set aside for“if and when” he got around to
another solo project. Kept off the road during the 2020 lockdown,
he found himself recording demosin his Portland, OR attic, without
a clear plan but thinking“maybe this might be worthpursuing at
some point.

”Hood had moved to Portland with his family in 2013 and swiftly
found a place among theRose City’s thriving music scene, including
a friendship forged with producer/musician ChrisFunk
(The Decemberists). Having long discussed collaborating, in 2023
the two artists’ typically stacked calendars finally allowed them the
opportunity to team up and they set towork recording what Hood
intended to be“a bigger departure”from Drive-By Truckers and his
previous solo efforts than ever before.

“The band has been in such a good place that I hadn’t really thought
in terms of doing anything outside of the Truckers anytime soon,
”Hood says.“I decided if I ever was going todo another solo record,
I wanted it to be pretty different than the band, as differentas it can be.

”Working largely at a number of Portland studios, Hood accomplished
his goal, in part bywriting much of the album on piano in a vigorous
attempt to expand his parameters in new, heretofore uncharted,
directions. While he planned to bring ina professional pianist for
the recording sessions, Funk, eager to push his friend from his comfort
zone, encouraged Hood to play the parts himself. Hood further took the
occasion to explore sounds outside the boundaries and obligations of
his day job, deviating from Drive-By Truckers’ traditionally
guitar-driven palette to craft richly textured arrangements marked
by the inclusion of strings, woodwinds, and vintage analog synthesizers.

“There’s really not a lot of guitar work on this album,”he says.
“I’m only playing electric on afew things. That was fun too, because,
I’m in a really kickass guitar band so it’s great to dosomething outside
of that. Everything ultimately suited the project. It’s not like these
decisions were made just for the sake of it. There was a point to it,
for sure.”

Auxiliary backing was provided by a stellar cast of friends and
musicians including fellowAlabama native Katie Crutchfield
(Waxahatchee), Brad and Phil Cook (Megafaun), Kevin Morby,
Wednesday, Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, The Blasters), Brad Morgan
and Jay Gonzalez(Drive-By Truckers), David Barbe
(Sugar, Mercyland), Nate Query (The Decemberists), Steve Drizos
(Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons), Daniel Hunt (Neko Case,
M Ward), and StuartBogie (The Hold Steady, Goose)

But as Hood says,“Everything was built around the songs.
”To some extent, he notes, thealbum moves backwards in time,
with“The Exploding Trees”being the most contemporary event
in the timeline of the record, inspired in part by Hood’s own
short storychronicling anatural disaster that occurred in his
North Alabama hometown just as he turned 30 andrelocated
to Athens, GA where Drive-By Truckers were co-founded in 1996.

With its powerful textural clarity and Hood’s literary strengths at
the fore,Exploding Trees &Airplane Screams emerges as a
staggering investigation into how time can shed light on the
recesses of memory, revealing this exceptionally gifted
songwriter’s resolute inclination tolook back through the golden
haze to grapple with the darkness and secret truths that perhaps
weren’t understood or reckoned with at the time. As he has
throughout his career–from Drive-By Truckers’ceaseless
investigation into American values and culture to his solobody
of work’s autobiographical meditations–Exploding Trees and
Airplane ScreamsseesPatterson Hood once again stripping
away the facade of things to get to the core, lifting uplife’s
rock to see what lies underneath.
“You remember things one way, ”he says,“but when you really
dip into it,when you reallylook back, the world was a different
place. Things were accepted that wouldn’t be accepted now and
things you didn’t understand then make sense now.”

“I don’t know if there was anything I set out to do on this record
as much as it just kind of worked out that way. You know, there
are a lot a lot of happy accidents in this record.