Welcome 2 Club XIII Vinyl / 12" Album

Arriving as the band enters its 26th year, 'Welcome 2 Club XIII' marks a sharp departure from the trenchant commentary of 'The Unraveling' and 'The New OK' (both released in 2020). 'All our records are political to some extent, but after making three overtly political records in a row we wanted to do something much more personal', says lead vocalist and guitarist, Patterson Hood. Produced by longtime Drive-By Truckers collaborator David Barbe and mainly recorded at his studio in Athens, Georgia, 'Welcome 2 Club XIII' took shape over the course of three frenetic days in summer 2021 - a doubly extraordinary feat considering that the band had no prior intentions of making a new album. 'We had some shows coming up and decided to get together and practice, since we hadn't even seen each other in a year and a half because of the pandemic', Hood recalls. 'We started demoing song ideas, and pretty soon we realised we had a whole record. It was all sort of magical'.