RECOMMENDED By turning down the amps, pulling antiquities from a teeming back catalogue, swapping stories and showing their bones, The Drive-By Truckers intended last spring’s “The Dirt Underneath” tour to be a rediscovery of sorts. Over the course of this acoustic journey—which was preceded by an amicable split with longtime guitarist/songwriter Jason Isbell—the band inadvertently stumbled upon its own renaissance, spilling out its eighth album, “Brighter Than Creation’s Dark,” in the process. Due out early next year, the genesis of the nineteen-track album prompted the Truckers to add another leg to “The Dirt Underneath,” and this one brings them to Chicago with legendary organist Spooner Oldham (who has performed with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett) in tow. Bettye Lavette, the missing link of American soul, is responsible for the pairing—Oldham and the Truckers played back-up on her new-album “The Scene of the Crime,” which was released in late September and grabbed onto the top slot of the Billboard Blues Chart immediately. (K. Tighe) Monday, October 22 at Park West
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