Patterson Hood Announces 2025 Tour Dates & First Solo Album In 12 Years

Patterson Hood announced his first solo album in 12 years, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams, due out via ATO Records on February 21, 2025. The Drive-By Truckers co-founder will support the album with a spring tour featuring his backing band The Sensurrounders and special guest Lydia Loveless.

Hood tapped Chris Funk (The Decemberists) to produce the 10-track LP, which was recorded at various studios in Hood’s current hometown of Portland, Oregon. The album features guest appearances from Waxahatchee, Kevin Morby, Wednesday, Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) and more.

The Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams 2025 Tour begins on March 19 at Brooklyn Made in Brooklyn. Hood and company then hit Sellersville (Pennsylvania) on March 21 and Washington D.C. on March 22. The tour continues in Atlanta on March 26, Birmingham (Alabama) on March 28, Nashville on March 29 and Indianapolis on March 30.

April dates include Chicago on April 1, Evanston (Illinois) on April 2, St. Louis on April 4 and Louisville on April 5. Loveless will open all dates except Louisville.

Tickets for the spring tour go on sale to the general public this Friday, November 22 at 10 a.m. local time following various presales. Scroll below for more information and to watch Hood’s “A Werewolf And A Girl” lyric video.

Patterson Hood and Chris Funk put a stellar lineup of contributors together for Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams that goes beyond Waxahatchee, Morby, Wednesday and Berlin. Brad and Phil Cook (Megafaun), Brad Morgan and Jay Gonzalez (Drive-By Truckers), David Barbe (Sugar, Mercyland), Nate Query (The Decemberists), Steve Drizos (Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons), Daniel Hunt (Neko Case, M Ward) and Stuart Bogie (The Hold Steady, Goose) also added to Hood’s first solo album since 2012’s Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance.

Hood, who currently lives in Portland, Oregon, recruited Lydia Loveless to sing on “A Werewolf And A Girl.” Patterson Hood shared the following about his new single, writing:

“‘A Werewolf and A Girl’ was written in August of 2021, around 40 years after I fell for my high school sweetheart. The song juxtaposed our falling in love and our breakup a year later. Once I cut the demo, I knew I wanted a woman to sing the choruses from the girl’s point of view. And in my head, it was always going to be Lydia. I mean, I didn’t really even have a second choice. The subject matter’s kind of provocative, so I wouldn’t have wanted to ask somebody that I didn’t feel was a friend. I wouldn’t want someone to be uncomfortable and then just not want to talk to me anymore. What I didn’t count on was that when I asked Lydia if she would be interested in doing it, she actually happened to be in the studio and did it the next day. And that’s what’s on the record.”

Watch Patterson Hood’s “A Werewolf And A Girl” lyric video below:

Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams Tracklist

1. Exploding Trees
2. A Werewolf and a Girl (w/Lydia Loveless)
3. The Forks of Cypress (w/Waxahatchee)
4. Miss Coldiron’s Oldsmobile
5. The Pool House
6. The Van Pelt Parties (w/Wednesday)
7. Last Hope
8. At Safe Distance
9. Airplane Screams
10. Pinocchio