Get off the couch, the rock show is coming
by Matthew Martin
The band Drivin’ N Cryin’ was synonymous with the Southern college rock scene in the late 1980s and early ’90s, going from college town to college town, playing in bars to packed-out crowds.
With songs like “Straight to Hell,” “Honeysuckle Blue” and “Fly Me Courageous,” the band [...]
The Great American Bubble Factory is an unapologetic rock and roll record. No genre bending or boundary pushing, just straight blue collar rock and roll from Hot-lanta. There is a great quote from the press sheet that came with the cd that, I believe, does a fantastic job of framing this album both in sound [...]
It seems everybody and their uncle like to put out a “BEST OF” list at the end of the year. So I figured, why not do it too.
Instead of putting my list out during the last week or two of 2009, I gave the year it’s full 365 days to make an impression on my [...]
DRIVIN N CRYIN | The Great American Bubble Factory:
Pure fun. Kevn Kinney and his slightly grayer bandmates turn it up, tune in and get busy with the guitar-y hard rock they always did best.
Read it HERE.
Great American Bubble Factory: Sometimes hard and driving, sometimes crying, always real, DNC has become a tried and true Southern brand through the years. But the latest is solid. It’s a very honest record, with the production and the performance and, of course, the content. And they name check the Stooges’ Funhouse in the first minute. [...]
From the outset, Drivin’ N Cryin’ has been steeped in the musical history of their Atlanta environs. The band’s second drummer came from a seminal version of The Black Crowes and the guitarist that expanded the band from trio to quartet in 1988 was R.E.M.’s touring guitarist at the time. But the thing that made Drivin’ [...]
Drivin N Cryin : (Whatever Happened to the) Great American Bubble Factory
Written by Bill Whiting
11/22/2009
Drivin N Cryin returns after a prolonged absence with the bracing document(Whatever Happened to the) Great American Bubble Factory.
A mix of glitzy rock, scintillating country and grungy blues, Great American Bubble Factory confirms a well-respected legacy for a band that has [...]
October 2009
In Tune: Drivin’ N’ Cryin’
Atlanta’s blue-collar heroes return
By Kimberly Turner
Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ didn’t set out to take a twelve-year hiatus. For the decade and a half following its formation in 1985, the Atlanta band was tireless, putting out eight albums and touring with bands such as the Who, the Allman Brothers, and R.E.M. The [...]
eMusic Review of the Day
by Lenny Kaye
It has been far too long since Drivin’ and Cryin’ graced us with a full-length, kick-the-door-open into their creative wellspring — 12 years, if I have my fingers and toes in the right order — and it is surely worth the wait. Of all the bands that came out [...]
For its first studio release since 1997’s self-titled collection, Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ presents a song-cycle centered around the imaginary Great American Bubble Factory, a brutally industrial setting for singer/songwriter Kevin Kinney’s intriguing songs. The pieces form a raw rock opera, alternately celebrating and mourning the American Dream as Kinney craftily blurs the Milwaukee mindset of his [...]
