Hood

Patterson Hood developed such a strong lyrical and musical voice in his work with the Drive-By Truckers that it's surprising how much it differs from the tone and approach of his solo work. 2004's Killers and Stars and 2009's Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) were assembled from songs that clearly wouldn't fit the DBT's, both musically and thematically, and 2012's Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance was an ambitious effort to create a song cycle that existed in a separate (though not unrelated) musical universe from his band. Hood's fourth solo album, 2025's Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams, in many respects picks up where Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance left off.

Patterson Hood developed such a strong lyrical and musical voice in his work with the Drive-By Truckers that it's surprising how much it differs from the tone and approach of his solo work. 2004's Killers and Stars and 2009's Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) were assembled from songs that clearly wouldn't fit the DBT's, both musically and thematically, and 2012's Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance was an ambitious effort to create a song cycle that existed in a separate (though not unrelated) musical universe from his band. Hood's fourth solo album, 2025's Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams, in many respects picks up where Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance left off.

A newly reissued private-press curio from 1974 captures the bygone sounds of daily life in Portland, Oregon, in dreamy, proto-ambient form." Ernest Hood’s Neighborhoods was released some two decades after the Portland, Oregon born and raised musician’s first forays into field recordings. These very recordings, and those captured over intervening years, define the universal sound and aural images of childhood, a theme memorialized by Hood’s privately-pressed opus of 1975.