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Drive-By Truckers
Band Athens United States Formed 1996 US rock band
Drive-By Truckers formed in 1996 in Athens, United States. Drive-By Truckers has 46 chart appearances on 27 radio countdowns from 11 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Used To Be A Cop”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #7. The station that charted Drive-By Truckers most often is The Colorado Sound (Fort Collins–Denver, CO), with 16 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2011.
Drive-By Truckers have spent two decades writing the great Southern novel one loud, loose, three-guitar song at a time. The band came together in Athens, Georgia, in 1996, built around Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, a pair of Shoals boys from northern Alabama who first met as roommates at the University of North Alabama. The lineup has reshuffled again and again, and Hood and Cooley are the only constants, trading lead vocals and guitars, with Cooley reaching for banjo and harmonica and Hood for mandolin, and Brad Morgan behind the kit since 1999.
The middle years were a writers' room like few others in rock. Jason Isbell joined in 2001 and stayed until 2007, bringing a third lead voice and guitar to Decoration Day and The Dirty South, records that treat alt-country as a license to crank the amps rather than soften them. Endless touring built them a fiercely loyal following, and in 2006 they took home the Americana Award for Duo/Group of the Year.
Go-Go Boots in 2011 brought "Used to Be a Cop" and "Everybody Needs Love", and American Band in 2016 sounds every bit as urgent as its title, with "Surrender Under Protest" and "What It Means" at its core. Today the lineup also counts Jay Gonzalez on keys, guitar and accordion and Matt Patton on bass.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Drive-By Truckers on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Used To Be A Cop | 3 | #7 | – | 2011 | |
| 2 | Decoration Day | 5 | #319 | – | – | |
| 3 | Outfit | 4 | #122 | – | – | |
| 4 | The Perilous Night | 3 | #201 | – | – | |
| 5 | Surrender Under Protest | 2 | #22 | – | 2016 | |
| 6 | What It Means | 2 | #243 | – | – | |
| 7 | The Righteous Path | 2 | #56 | – | 2008 | |
| 8 | Carl Perkins' Cadillac | 4 | #462 | – | – | |
| 9 | Zip City | 1 | #140 | – | – | |
| 10 | Working This Job | 1 | #22 | – | 2010 | |
| 11 | Armageddon's Back In Town | 2 | #47 | – | 2020 | |
| 12 | Grand Canyon | 1 | #286 | – | – | |
| 13 | The New OK | 1 | #459 | – | – | |
| 14 | Pauline Hawkins | 2 | #62 | – | 2014 | |
| 15 | Righteous Path | 1 | #432 | – | – | |
| 16 | Easy On Yourself | 1 | #521 | – | – | |
| 17 | Everybody Needs Love | 2 | #56 | – | 2011 | |
| 18 | 72 (This Highways Mean) | 1 | #508 | – | – | |
| 19 | Daddy Learned To Fly | 1 | #58 | – | 2010 | |
| 20 | The Monument Valley | 1 | #493 | – | – | |
| 21 | Never Gonna Change | 1 | #672 | – | – | |
| 22 | February 14, 2018 | 1 | #128 | – | 2006 | |
| 23 | Daddy's Little Pumpkin | 1 | #729 | – | – | |
| 24 | Let There Be Rock | 1 | #942 | – | – | |
| 25 | Birmingham | 1 | #728 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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