Patterson Hood started a phone interview earlier this month with a question of his own about the venue.

“Is it an old Packard plant?,” the Drive-By Truckers co-founder asked about Packard Music Hall, where the band will play Sept. 21.

After he heard a bit of Packard’s history in Warren, he shared a bit of his own Packard history.

“My grandmother, who basically raised me on my mom’s side, they were all Packard people. They would buy a new Packard every year. She talked about them all the time.”

There also is a Packard with a bit of notoriety on his father’s side.

Hood is the son of bass player David Hood, who was part of “The Swampers,” the group of studio musicians at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala., who were immortalized in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” and the documentary “Muscle Shoals.” He recorded with such artists as Aretha Franklin, Joe Cocker, Paul Simon, Bob Seger, The Staple Singers and Frank Black and later opened his own recording studio, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

“My father bought an old Packard in the early ’70s,” Hood said. “It was kind of in a semi-state of restoration. He meant to get it restored, and it never really happened. It sat in the lot at the old Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

“There’s a photo of Traffic on (the album) ‘Shootout at the Fantasy Factory’ where they’re all gathered around an old Packard. That was dad’s old Packard.”