Killers And Stars

Patterson Hood plays guitar and sings. He's also part of the band "Drive By Truckers". He began writing songs when he was 8 and has written over 3000 songs. Most of the first 2000 suck. He is a very stubborn man and the poster child for persistence. His father, David Hood, is a session musician from Muscle Shoals AL. He played on "I'll Take You There" by The Staple Singers as well as songs by Bobby Womack, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Bob Seger, and Willie Nelson. Spent much of his childhood on a farm in McGee Town, Alabama, just down the road from where Sam Phillips grew up.

"I recorded 'Killers And Stars' by myself in the dining room of the house where I was living, in early March 2001. I had just gotten divorced, was fighting with the band (Drive By Truckers) and a good number of my friends. I was feeling pretty freaked out and isolated and this album was my therapy.

". . . Most of the demons that inspired these songs have long since been laid to rest (or at least replaced by others), but the album kinda holds up for what it is." - Patterson Hood