Drive-By Truckers with Heartless Bastards at Slowdown, 9 p.m., $20 advance / $23 day of show, all ages (17 and under with parental permission form)

Flaunting a mix of Southern pride, erudite lyrics, and a muscled three-guitar attack, Drive-By Truckers became one of the most well-respected alternative country-rock acts of the 2000s. Led by frontman Patterson Hood and comprising a rotating cast of Georgia and Alabama natives, the band celebrated the South while refusing to paint over its spotty past. History, folklore, politics, and character studies all shared equal space in the Truckers catalog, which offered up its first blast of gutsy, twangy rock with 1998's Gangstabilly. Although the band remained on tour well into the current year, the Truckers also found time to release their eighth studio album The Big To-Do in 2010.