{"id":6664,"date":"2025-11-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/drive-by-truckers-jason-isbell-colbert\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:00:00","slug":"drive-by-truckers-jason-isbell-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/drive-by-truckers-jason-isbell-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-By Truckers, Jason Isbell Reuniting On \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2024\/06\/DBTbyBrantley-Guitierrez1.HR_.jpg\" width=\"1178\" height=\"784\" alt=\"Drive-By Truckers\"><figcaption>Drive-By Truckers (photo: Brantley Guitierrez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In what will be their first announced appearance together in more than 18 years, Drive-By Truckers will perform with former member Jason Isbell Dec. 2 on CBS\u2019 <em>The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/em>. The pairing comes in support of tomorrow\u2019s release of <em>The Definitive Decoration Day<\/em>, a four-LP boxed set celebrating the Truckers\u2019 2003 album of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we have always remained friends with Jason, and honestly he and I are closer now than ever, this is our first \u2018announced\u2019 appearance together in nearly 20 years,\u201d says lead Trucker Patterson Hood. \u201cI consider <em>Decoration Day<\/em> to be our masterpiece, and he was such an integral part of that album that it\u2019s wonderful that he\u2019s able to join us in celebrating this release. Colbert has always been our favorite, so we are really psyched to be on his show again, with our previous appearance being the week of the election in 2016. This is a rare treat for us \u2014 and you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/massive-attack-forgoing-spotify\/\">Massive Attack\u2019s New Music Won\u2019t Be On Spotify<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/squeeze-trixies-new-album\/\">Squeeze Revisit Early Unheard Songs On \u2018Trixies\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/11\/robyn-new-single\/\">Robyn Roars Back With \u2018Dopamine\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Isbell, who left the Truckers in the spring of 2007 and has thrived as a solo artist ever since, has joined his former bandmates onstage for a few impromptu meetups over the years. The most recent was at the 2021 edition of Isbell\u2019s Shoalsfest in Florence, Al., when he sang two songs with the group during their set.<\/p>\n<p><em>Decoration Day<\/em> was the follow-up to 2001\u2019s <em>Southern Rock Opera<\/em>. As SPIN wrote in a contemporary review, on that album, \u201cthese Alabama ass whuppers made fiery peace with lingering rebel ghosts.\u201d But on <em>Decoration Day<\/em>, Hood, Isbell and core member Mike Cooley took on \u201cmore personal demons. From the false bravado of Hood\u2019s \u2018Heathens\u2019 to the bittersweet father\u2019s lament in Isbell\u2019s \u2018Outfit,\u2019 the three guitarist\/songwriters deliver blistering tales of child abuse, tour-strained relationships, farm foreclosure and the elusiveness of \u2018home.\u2019It\u2019s a raging, ragged\u00a0<em>Behind the Music<\/em> \u2014 15 coal-black odes to the casualties that art leaves behind and that life can\u2019t avoid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Truckers are off the road for the time being, but Hood is in the midst of a solo tour with the Hold Steady\u2019s Craig Finn through Nov. 22 in Austin. As for the hard-touring Isbell, he\u2019ll embark on an extensive 2026 tour on Jan. 14 in Durham, N.C.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drive-By Truckers (photo: Brantley Guitierrez) In what will be their first announced appearance together in more than 18 years, Drive-By Truckers will perform with former member Jason Isbell Dec. 2&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3759,4433,6,24,2840],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drive-by-truckers","category-jason-isbell","category-news","category-pushly","category-stephen-colbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}