In our never-ending search for items to tickle your trivial fancy, we’ll step back in time to a fashion item that may be embarrassing to some readers — you know who you are. The time was the mid-’60s, ...
“Go-Go Boots” from The Drive-By Truckers eleventh album, also titled Go-Go Boots, was inspired by real-life events. Songwriter Patterson Hood says he remembers the gritty murder in Tuscumbia, Alabama, ...
French designer André Courrèges, whose futuristic dresses, bold glasses and go-go boots inspired a horde of imitators, has died at 92. Courrèges died after three decades of living with Parkinson's ...
Southern Baptist preachers have a funny knack of ending up in a world of shit whenever they appear in Drive-By Truckers songs. They have many names — “Reverend Bob,” “your daddy,” “the preacher” — but ...
Hinton’s spirit returned later in the show, in the Truckers’ cover of his song “Everybody Needs Love,” a prime joy on Go-Go Boots. “Mercy Buckets” was another — a mixed blast of Muscle Shoals balladry ...