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In Focus: Drive-By Truckers Rock Out at The Egg

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DriveByTruckers ChrisMcShane 05082023 3907
DriveByTruckers ChrisMcShane 05082023 3907

On a delightful Monday evening in Albany, the Drive-By Truckers played The Egg Performing Arts Center. The show was their fourth-straight stop in the state of New York on their spring tour. The band hit Levon Helm Studios and played Bowery Ballroom twice last week. And it wasn’t the first time the band played The Egg, having played the venue in 2014 and 2017.

While nearly all of the shows on this leg of the tour featured Lydia Loveless as the opener, she was not on the bill for this one. That made it an evening with the Truckers, who took the stage shortly after 7:30 PM and wasted no time getting into their set. Over the course of two hours, the band played eighteen originals and impressively drew upon songs from ten of their albums—plus a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “State Trooper.” The entire set was great, and the band sounded best on the songs it jammed out, especially the final few minutes of “Pauline Hawkins.”

If you missed this leg of the tour and want to catch the Drive-By Truckers in New York, fear not. They’re set to play at Water Street Music Hall in Rochester and the Paramount in Huntington in September.

Setlist: Carl Perkins’ Cadillac, The New OK, Surrender Under Protest, The Opening Act, Women Without Whiskey, The Driver, A Ghost To Most, Pauline Hawkins, Sounds Better In The Song, Wilder Days, Every Single Storied Flameout, Puttin’ People On The Moon, Gravity’s Gone, Heathens, Marry Me, Buttholeville, State Trooper (Bruce Springsteen cover), Made Up English Oceans, Angels And Fuselage

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