The Drive-By Truckersare a southern rock/ alt-countryband based in Athens, Georgia. Their music is characterised by its "three axe attack," or three guitars supported by bass and drums. The band was co-founded in 1996, by Patterson Hood(son of Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section player David Hood) and Mike Cooley. The Drive-By Truckers put out their first two albums, Gangstabilly(1998) and Pizza Deliverance(1999), followed by a live album, Alabama Ass-Whuppin(released in 2000 by Second Heaven Records, re-released in 2002 by Terminus Records). In 2001, the band released Southern Rock Opera, a double CD song cycle about the rise to stardom and demise of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Bobby went out for a joy ride with my best girl, left me at the party,
It was almost June and the moon illuminated the rain-
soaked streets like a candy wrapper.
I guess that's why Bobby had his lights off,
Tear-assing thru the back part of town and those deserted
country roads where me and Bobby tear-assed so many times before.
Sometimes with my best girl and sometimes Bobby had him one too.
But this night he banked that curve just a little too hard and that 442 went airborne,
Hit a telephone pole and split in two, Bobby's skull was split right in two,
And my girl was pinned in her seat, partially embedded in the dashboard
And for the next twenty minutes the only sound in the night were her screams.
And the sound of the wheel still spinning.
In a little while the ambulance came and the sound of its
siren mixed with the screaming girl and the spinning wheel.
But when the story was told the next day at the graduation ceremony,
Everyone said that when the ambulance came
The paramedics could hear Free Bird still playing on the tereo.
You know it's a very long song.