Drive-By Truckers headline EdFest

By Melanie Wong

EDWARDS — The last time the Drive-By Truckers went into the studio to record new music — a session that yielded two albums, 2010’s “The Big To-Do” and 2011’s “Go-Go Boots” – singer/guitarist Mike Cooley was something of a bystander when it came to the songwriting.He may have been listed alongside the other band members as contributing to the music, but in reality, his songwriting counterpart in the Truckers, singer/guitarist Patterson Hood, brought in the vast majority of the songs.For someone like Cooley, who has usually shared the songwriting load pretty equally with Patterson, this was distressing.“I’ve always kind of …

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