June 27, 2024- Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles Words by Cynthia Steindorff Photos by A Rood Photography.
Muscle Shoals, Alabama’s by-way-of Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers packed The Belasco for the Los Angeles stop on their highly anticipated “Southern Rock Opera Revisited” tour.
The band is fronted by Trucker stalwarts, co-lead vocalists/multi-instrumentalists Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, along with multi-instrumentalists/vocalists Jay Gonzalez and Matthew Patton, and drummer Brad Morgan. They performed their entire critically-acclaimed, double, third album, 2001’s autobiographical via Lynyrd Skynyrd-homage “Southern Rock Opera” as well as an assortment of fan-favorites and deeper cuts.
Along with a wealth of humorous and heartfelt anecdotes and homespun stories with colorful band banter throughout, they delighted their dedicated fans and no doubt enlightened many new ones to their rightful place in the legacy of Southern Rock.
Setlist:
Days of Graduation
Ronnie and Neil
72 (This Highway’s Mean)
Dead, Drunk, and Naked
Guitar Man Upstairs
Birmingham
Ramon Casiano
The Three Great Alabama Icons
The Southern Thing
Surrender Under Protest
Wallace
Made Up English Oceans
Plastic Flowers on the Highway
Primer Coat
Mystery Song
Zip City
Let There Be Rock
Every Single Storied Flameout
Road Cases
Women Without Whiskey
Life in the Factory
Shut Up and Get on the Plane
Greenville to Baton Rouge
Angels and Fuselage
Encore:
Keep On Smilin’
(Wet Willie cover)
Check out the full gallery of photos from this night here.
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