It feels both right and wrong to describe 2003’s Decoration Day as the moment it all came together for the Drive-By Truckers. The Alabama-rooted, Athens, Georgia-based band had dropped Southern Rock ...

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In 1985, Patterson Hood was about to flunk out of the University of North Alabama. He copped a gig writing album reviews for the college’s paper and enjoyed it because labels sent him a free LP every ...

The Drive-By Truckers are set to play with former member Jason Isbell in a reunion that's decades in the making. The announcement arrives just before Friday's release of The Definitive Decoration Day, ...

Memorial Day was first observed in 1868 as “Decoration Day.” The Pioneer Cemetery holds 145 Civil War veterans’ graves. Observances are held across Lane County, with one of Oregon’s oldest in Eugene.

In this photo from the Allen County Historical Society, county residents celebrate Decoration Day in the Public Square on May 30, 1888. By 1888, twenty years after America began observing Decoration ...

Earlier this summer at the Winningham family cemetery in Pickett County, Tennessee, Carolyn Massiongale conducted a master class for her three granddaughters. The tools at hand were a garden hoe, rake ...