Robert-lurie

Robert Lurie is the author of No Certainty Attached, a biography of Australian songwriter Steve Kilbey (Verse Chorus Press, 2008). He is also a musician, having recorded a number of solo projects in the 1990's. In addition to his own work, he co-wrote tracks, co-produced, and played guitar on three Solyoni albums: Prairie Monsters, The Princess Market, and Kenesaw Mountain Landis. He currently lives in Tempe, Arizona.
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• Soundtrack to the New Old South(16)

  [A look at the Drive-By Truckers]

  Sometime in the early 1990’s, while attending an event called a “song swap” in Athens, Georgia, I met an extraordinarily gifted songwriter named Patterson Hood. The swap itself was essentially a weekly gathering of aspiring tunesmiths sharing their latest creations; we would sit in a circle and each play our songs, the other musicians joining in if they had the chops or the inclination. Everything was going fine—just another evening of pleasant mediocrity—until the slightly pudgy guy with a five-o’clock shadow and food stains down his shirt had his turn.