By this point, Hood is cackling so loud and hard that he sounds like he's choking. "That should make 'em go, 'Oh, shit! God really isn't a Republican! What do I do now?' "
For that matter, what do the Drive-By Truckers -- after three career-defining records in a row -- do now? Slow down, Hood says. The band has at the ready an album's worth of material that didn't fit the conceptual structure of Southern Rock Opera, and there may not be a better time for a leftovers record. But followed by what?
"We'll probably have to sit down and make a list of things we don't want it to be," Hood says. "We've talked a lot about doing away with the individual-writing thing and just getting everybody together and building a record that way. That seems like the next step in the evolution."
Then what?
What else? Hit the road.
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