Drive-By Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood has shared “The Forks of Cypress (feat. Waxahatchee),” the newest single (that includes Katie Crutchfield) from his landmark new solo album, Exploding Timber & Airplane Screams, arriving by way of ATO Information on Friday, February 21. An official music video – filmed by Bradley Wagner and Juan M. Soria on the historic Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY earlier than Drive-By Truckers took the stage on their Southern Rock Opera Revisited Tour earlier this yr and that includes aerial footage of Hood’s hometown of Florence, AL offered by native pilot John David Apkarian of Wings Over Bama – premiered at the moment. (watch above)
“The Forks of Cypress an actual place, a couple of miles simply north of my hometown of Florence, Alabama,” says Patterson Hood. “A former plantation home, as soon as owned by a cousin of Andrew Jackson, it was struck by a ‘lightning cluster’ in 1966 – once I was two – and exploded into flames, burning to the bottom in beneath 5 minutes. All that was left have been these large columns, in a rectangle on high of the hill overlooking the meadow. It was proper by a really creepy rickety one lane bridge that the locals referred to as Ghost Bridge. I drove previous this (and crossed the scary bridge) each week of my childhood on my option to my Nice Uncle’s home (the place I spent each weekend). Later, as a youngster, youngsters would drive dates out to Ghost Bridge and inform ghost tales and make out. The bridge was torn down a couple of decade in the past.
“I wrote the tune as pure fiction, impressed by these nice story songs that Bobbie Gentry did, an ‘Ode to Billie Joe,’ and so on., the place she implies a narrative with out actually telling it. In my head, I heard Katie Crutchfield (Waxahatchee) singing it with me and was blessed that she was prepared to take action. She’s one in every of my very favourite artists, and such a beautiful individual.
“The tune was fleshed out splendidly by Phil and Brad Prepare dinner (who performed keyboards, dobro and bass on it), Dan Hunt on drums, after which Kevin Morby put the cherry on high with a shocking lead half. Whipped cream and cherry.”
Produced by Chris Funk (The Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks) at varied studios in Hood’s present hometown of Portland, OR, Exploding Timber & Airplane Screams marks the singer-songwriter-guitarist’s most expansive and bold extracurricular effort so far, supported by a stellar forged of buddies and fellow musicians together with Waxahatchee, Brad and Phil Prepare dinner (Megafaun), Kevin Morby, Wednesday, Brad Morgan and Jay Gonzalez (Drive-By Truckers), Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, The Blasters), David Barbe (Sugar, Mercyland), Nate Question (The Decemberists), Steve Drizos (Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons), Daniel Hunt (Neko Case, M Ward), and Stuart Bogie (The Maintain Regular, Goose).
Search for Hood on the Eastside Bowl right here in Nashville on March twenty ninth.
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