Southern band takes on Trump as impeachment vote nears

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For the rock band Drive-By Truckers, it’s demoralizing to release angry songs about Donald Trump’s America just as the president’s impeachment trial is winding down toward an acquittal.

“Are we backing down?” he said. “All the people that were bad-mouthing us, would it be making them think they did something? They didn’t win. I’m still pissed off.”

There’s no mistaking the reference to “the evil man’s tirades” in the album’s finale, where Hood sings “in the end we’re just standing watching greatness fade into darkness.”Politics is hardly foreign to the Truckers’ work — and Hood, 56, recalls writing a song about Watergate when he was 8 years old — but never as overt as now, said Eric Danton, a music critic for Paste magazine.

“They paid money to walk out,” Hood said. “We just keep going. We let it fuel the fire. We’re stubborn. We don’t like people telling us what to do.” It’s notable on “The Unraveling” that Hood’s family — he and his wife have a teenage daughter and a son now 10 and live in the Pacific Northwest — is mentioned in three of his songs.

 

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