of natural disasters: floods, tornadoes, sinkholes, thunderstorms, bachelor parties. Co-founding singer/guitarist Patterson Hood has also covered heat lightning in the distance with his solo work. Mostly, they portend danger and/or death to the people living inside those tunes.your Tropical Storm!” founder singer/guitarist Patterson Hood mock-raged against the dying footlights. “But thank you for coming out in this tonight.
Hood’s more raspy, throaty tones brought the fire and brimstone. His better contributions included a raw, impassioned “The Southern Thing.” Which, as he explained, the band has mostly stayed away from playing for two decades due to it being misconstrued by redneck racists and yahoos as a call to arms. Just as uber patriots cottoned to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.
Just past the two-hour mark, the Truckers turned the mood of “Angels and Fuselage” totally around with a surefire feel-good song. One that was a hit for a Southern Rock band that Hood said “people kind of forget.”