Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
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Free Music Review: It bored me too
Hit: 2 Stars
This album is not for me. One reasonably boring song after another. No edge like some of the other albums. No snarly riffs. Story telling a little bland. No variety in the songs. Southern Rock Opera, Dirty South, and Decoration Day are the way to go and may have set the bar too high. You can't tell me that they didn't loose a step when Jason Isbell left. I'm still a big Cooley fan but this entire album is very ho-hum(and I really wanted to like it). Bummer. She's a snoozer. Free Music Review: BEST DAMN BAND IN THE USA RIGHT NOW!!!!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
If your all about/searching for REAL music in today's dime a dozen, digitally enhanced, voice/[...] artist world, then BUY THIS CD!!! If you don't know about DBT, take yourselves back to another time in history when a new exciting rock album put out by bands that are now legendary was brought home from the store and played ALL the way through on the record player.
In today's world the Truckers are future legends. I have seen these guys in concert many times, and would put them up against ANY classic rock band. Better more intelligent lyrics, harder rocking songs, great style, these guys have it all right now. They are building a hell of a library of great music as well. All in the last 10 years or less during what many traditionalist have named the worst era for real music EVER. This album could be the finest one of the year. No big national radio marketing here with this group of players, just a steady diet of sold out shows all over the country, many happy concert fans and a damn fine new album for all who enjoy the passion of fine rock to enjoy.
I sure was worried when they lost Jason but I think it might have been for the best as John Neff has taken over and changed this group's direction and its SMOOTH!!!!! Hats off to the Truckers in their finest hour with this gem of an album out and ripping up the reviews!! ( J Neff and myself are from Savannah GA!!)
Free Music Review: Angst, Soul and Good Old Fashioned Rock and Roll
Hit: 5 Stars
I did not miss Jason Isbell as much as I thought that I would. There are places where Shonna's vocals get a bit lost in the music instead of cutting through like Adele Bethel's do, but that is as much a flaw of arranging and production as it is a flaw of hers. However, her song writing is excellent and stands next to anything that Patterson writes (particularly Home Field Advantage and Purgatory Line. Mike Cooley is a pure gem and "Lisa's Birthday" ranks as one of the best country songs of the last 12 months. This is a album that is as dark and bleak as it is beautiful. The DBTs still stand as one of the few bands willing to just write a simple song that cuts all the BS and just tells simple songs about rural, working class America--stories and songs that reveal a side of Americana that most music seems to want to hide. And that is what makes the DBTs the perfect rock band, its just simple rock and roll--no hype, no image, no pretense. Free Music Review: A Good but Not Great DBT release still trumps what passes for Rock today
Hit: 4 Stars
I have been a DBT fan since I stumbled upon Southern Rock Opera 9 years ago...have bought everything in their catalog and played each numerous times. I am a huge fan and promoter of the band to all who will listen. This is the first DBT release without talented guitarist/songwriter Jason Isbell who was dismissed from the band as a falling out over his divorce of DBT bass player Shonna Tucker. Patterson Hood called this the best DBT album yet and I have to disagree.Isbell was a young buck who kicked new life in the Truckers writing the best stuff on each album he played on. This is a more subtle album with Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley stepping up their game with some tremendous tracks like Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife,3 Dimes Down and the best song on the CD The Opening Act. Spooner Oldham on the keyboards and John Neff's haunting steel pedal guitar add an understated elegence to these mellower songs that have really grown on me after repeated listenings.The problem I have with the release is this album has many songs that fall short. Tucker isnt anywhere close to the songwriter her ex husband is although The Purgatory Line was decent but the other two were weak. She does add a nice touch singing background on several songs. Overall a good DBT release still beats most of what passes for new rock today.Free Music Review: Absolutely Fantastic Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
What can be said that hasn't been said already? This is a very dark album with a slight ray of hope. Hood & Cooley are just phonomenal songwriters in the vein of Young,Springsteen,Ryan Adams,Cash,and Kristofferson, but unique. They have the uncanny ability to visualize today's world from their point of view into words,and from polar opposites flowing without bumping into each other. And Shoanna's pretty damn good herself, especially The Purgatory Line. After 5 complete listens, that's the only way I can describe it. There's not a bad song on it,in my opinion and is similar to SRO in that Hood and Cooley wrote the majority of the songs.
The musicianship is stellar-John Neff's beautiful pedal steel, Tucker and Morgan's rock solid beat and Spooner Oldham's piano/hammond fills along with Hood/Cooley's smooth acoustic and hot leads complete the picture perfectly.
I was cautiously optimistic/concerned when Jason left but I love all the DBT albums. But the more I listen to this new album and Jason's, I truly believe they're both better off. That was just too much songwriting talent for one band. So rock on DBT, rock&roll never forgets.