And Now for Something Completely Different

This is a 4 song set by the Drive-By Truckers performed at the WYEP Community Broadcast Center in Pittsburgh in 2008.



Of particular note is the first song called "Two Daughters and Beautiful Wife". It is a wonderful song, but also a sad one. The song was written by Patterson Hood in memory of his friend Bryan Harvey and family who were brutally murdered by low-life scum for $50 each. As the story goes:

An entire family was found brutally murdered in their Richmond, Va. home on New Year's Day and many in the close knit community want to know why a well-liked couple and their two young children are gone.



Kathryn Harvey was the homecoming queen at her Virginia Beach high school, while her husband Bryan Harvey was a talented musician on the verge of stardom in the 90's with his band "House of Freaks."

According to Richmond police, Kathryn and Bryan and their two children, Stella and Ruby, were found bound with their throats cut in the basement of their suburban home. Firefighters discovered the bodies after responding to a fire call.

Apparently the two assailants gained entry into the Harvey home via an unlocked door and forced this young family down into their basement family room while their getaway driver waited in a nearby van. As unfortunately happens in so many occasions, one unlocked door may have been the difference between life and death as the robbers and murderers sought a home, any home in the Harvey’s neighborhood to invade. It was here, in the comfort and relatively safety of their own home that Bryan, Kathryn and their two young daughters were bound and then slashed, stabbed and in one or more cases, brutally beaten to death. Next the consciousless mass murderers (four or more murders at the same location) set the Harvey’s house on fire to cover their horrific crimes and fled with a few items taken from the now lifeless home. The killers may have taken electronic equipment that could be sold or pawned or otherwise traded for a few cents on the dollar, maybe netting them a few hundred dollars at most. That would make the lives of each of the four Harvey family members worth, say $50 apiece. Fifty dollars apiece for four human lives!