The Drive By Truckers played Toronto's Opera House last night. I've seen them a number of times before, dating back to probably 2000 or 2001, but I haven't seen them in at least a few years and perhaps longer.
I was never a huge fan -- I think they are okay but find that after 20-25 minutes their songs all start to sound the same and I get a little bored. Still, it had been a few years and they have had some lineup changes so it seemed worth trying them out again. Plus, the Whigs, who I saw at SXSW and quite liked, were opening.
I got there in time to see four songs of the Whigs set, though I missed one while I was being frisked as part of TOH's ridiculous entry procedure. They (the Whigs, not the entry procedures) were as I remembered them in Austin: loud, fun and fairly melodic, with a killer drummer.
DBTs came on and I stuck around for about an hour, but still had the same impression I usually do. They are a good band, though on this night I thought the pedal steel/slide guitar player was way too loud in the mix. One of the last songs they played before I left I thought was excellent -- I was told by a friend it is on their new record. Maybe I need to check out that one.
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