Summary: Founding member of the southern rock outfit Drive-By Truckers, Patterson Hood is an exceptional songwriter painting lyrical pictures of small scenes and real people, very much in the tradition of southern fiction. He has a new solo album, called Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance, with songs that are all about family, in most cases his own. In this performance and interview, Hood talks openly about the people in his life who inspired the characters in the new songs, and we'll hear his outstanding live set from this summer's XPoNential Music Festival with Hood's band, The Downtown Rumblers.
