For Patterson Hood, the arrival of trucker chic in pop culture is anything but serendipitous. It's scary. From pop star Avril Lavigne sporting a leather chain wallet to Ashton Kutcher donning a John Deere cap, Hood wants no part of the suddenly ubiquitous salutes to the Stuckey's crowd.
"It's pretty funny," says Hood, one of the founding members of the band Drive-By Truckers. "Of course, we're steering away from it. I don't want to be in fashion, because that means next year we'll be out of fashion. I tend to run the other way."