The Mother Truckers More than a Good Name
Photo courtesy of the Mother Truckers
Making their way north from Texas, The Mother Truckers are on the road.
The Mother Truckers have that rare band name — something instantly memorable and timeless. In fact, it’s just timeless and memorable enough that when I learned the band was coming to Huntington May 10 I got excited because I thought they were a band I knew (it’s not every day a band I’m familiar with comes to Huntington). Turns out, I wasn’t. Familiar with The Mother Truckers that is. But all that’s soon to change with the band’s latest release already receiving positive reviews (see our review on page 27) and a lineup of tour dates in cities the Truckers have yet to play in.
On a road in Texas, lead singer Teal Collins talked to us — rather enthusiastically and full of zest, we might add — about the tour, the new album and how the band formed after a “musical explosion.”
Graffiti: Your press release says the two of you met at an open mic years ago and the meeting was musically explosive. Can you elaborate? What does that mean?
Collins: We actually
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