American Band

Pubblicato il 30 settembre 2016, American Band è l’album dei Drive By Truckers successore di English Oceans. Il disco è stato descritto nella press release come un lavoro «urgente e di protesta» con il songwriting diviso equamente tra Patterson Hood e Mike Cooley. Di seguito la dichiarazione rilasciata dalla band nel comunicato stampa.

«Drive-By Truckers are celebrating our twentieth anniversary as a band in an election year where some people are trying to define what it is to be American. Definitions based on some outdated ideology of prejudice and fear. We are loudly proclaiming that those people don’t speak for us. America is and always has been a land of immigrants and ideals. Ideals that we have often fallen short of achieving, but it’s the striving that has given us whatever claims to greatness we have had. That’s what America means to us and “We’re an American Band”».