Singer, guitarist and songwriter with the band Drive-By Truckers since 1996,
Patterson Hood has also embarked on a solo career in alternative country. Born
in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, on March 24, 1964, the son of David Hood, bassist of
the famous Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, grew up in an atmosphere conducive to
music, and formed his first band, Adam's House Cat, with high-school classmate
Mike Cooley in 1985. Having gone their separate ways, Hood and Cooley reunited
in Athens in 1996 to form a successful new band, Drive-By Truckers. After
recording four albums, and with the ban...