PLAYMIXT PREDICTS: Once upon a time on the Drive-by Truckers’ website, Patterson Hood’s commentary for the legendary Southern Rock Opera album included this note: We’ll play it one time in 2011. That hasn’t happened yet. Although the site has been revised since then, and the note about playing it has disappeared, we’re going to step out on a limb: Playmixt predicts that the Drive-by Truckers will play Southern Rock Opera in its entirety at one of their 3 year-end Washington DC gigs. This year marks the 10th anniversary of its original release, which was on September 12, 2001. In the documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending, Patterson reveals how unsettling it was for them putting out an album where the plane goes down right after the events in New York, DC and Pennsylvania. Performing Angels and Fuselage right after that was a disturbing prospect. There’s no particular rationale for doing it now apart from 2 things - it’s the 10th anniversary, and that old note on the website. We’ll be fine if we’re wrong, but it we’re right, DC is about to get the performance of a lifetime.

PLAYMIXT PREDICTS:

Once upon a time on the Drive-by Truckers’ website, Patterson Hood’s commentary for the legendary Southern Rock Opera album included this note:

We’ll play it one time in 2011.

That hasn’t happened yet. Although the site has been revised since then, and the note about playing it has disappeared, we’re going to step out on a limb:

Playmixt predicts that the Drive-by Truckers will play Southern Rock Opera in its entirety at one of their 3 year-end Washington DC gigs.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of its original release, which was on September 12, 2001. In the documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending, Patterson reveals how unsettling it was for them putting out an album where the plane goes down right after the events in New York, DC and Pennsylvania. Performing Angels and Fuselage right after that was a disturbing prospect.

There’s no particular rationale for doing it now apart from 2 things - it’s the 10th anniversary, and that old note on the website. We’ll be fine if we’re wrong, but it we’re right, DC is about to get the performance of a lifetime.