Til He's Dead or Rising by Drive-By Truckers

Album: English Oceans (2014)

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This marked the first time where DBT guitarist Mike Cooley took singing duties on a song written by Patterson Hood. Colley recalled: "I remember Patterson was getting frustrated trying to sing it. He was doing fine, but it seemed like there was something he wanted to do that wasn't coming. I was in the control room thinking, 'I could probably sing this' - though it wasn't like I was saying, 'Oh, I can sing this a lot better than that.' I was thinking, 'This sounds like something I could sing.'"

"Right after that, he walks into the control room and says, 'You want to trying singing this? It sounds more like you than me.' I said, 'Yeah, I was just thinking that.'"

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