Drive-By Truckers Announce New Album ‘Welcome 2 Club XIII’ & Share Single

Drive-By Truckers detailed Welcome 2 Club XIII, a new studio album due out June 3 via ATO Records. The quintet previewed their 14th studio album by releasing its title track single along with a video.

The nine-track follow-up to the 2020 LPs The Unraveling and The New OK takes its name from the club in Muscle Shoals, Alabama where co-founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley honed their skills performing as part of the pre-DBT band Adam’s House Cat. “There were no cool bars in town and Club XIII was the best we had, but it wasn’t all that good, and our band wasn’t particularly liked there,” Hood explained. “From time to time the owner would throw us a Wednesday night or let us open for a hair-metal band we were a terrible fit for, and everyone would hang out outside until we were done playing. It wasn’t very funny at the time, but it’s funny to us now.”

Hood and Cooley along with fellow DBT members multi-instrumentalist Jay Gonzalez, bassist Matt Patton and drummer Brad Morgan recorded Welcome 2 Club XIII over three days last summer. Drive-By Truckers tapped longtime collaborator David Barbe to produce the LP which was tracked at his studio in Athens, Georgia. Margo Price, Mike Mills (R.E.M.) and Schaefer Llana contributed backing vocals to an album that saw the band capture most songs live in one or two takes.

“Cooley and I have been playing together for 37 years now,” Hood added. “That first band might have failed miserably on a commercial level, but I’m really proud of what we did back then. It had a lot to do with who we ended up becoming.”

Watch Drive-By Truckers’ Jason Shevchuk-directed “Welcome 2 Club XIII” video:

Drive-By Truckers have a busy spring and summer of touring ahead. Check out the band’s full itinerary below:

Welcome 2 Club XIII Tracklist

1. The Driver
2. Maria’s Awful Disclosures
3. Shake and Pine
4. We will never wake you up in the morning
5. Welcome 2 Club XIII
6. Forged In Hell and Heaven Sent
7. Every Single Storied Flameout
8. Billy Ringo In The Dark
9. Wilder Days