Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
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Artist: Drive By TruckersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-06-17
Music Label: New West Records
Soundtracks:
- The Deeper In
- Sink Hole
- Hell No, I Ain?t Happy
- Marry Me
- My Sweet Annette
- Outfit
- Heathens
- Sounds Better In The Song
- (Something's Got To) Give Pretty Soon
- Your Daddy Hates Me
- Careless
- When The Pin Hits The Shell
- Do It Yourself
- Decoration Day
- Loaded Gun In The Closet
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Free Music Review: My favorite DBT Album (of the ones I own)
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a fan of the Drive By Truckers for about two years now, after discovering them via Internet Radio. Thus far, my modest DBT catalog includes Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day, The Dirty South, and A Blessing and a Curse. Of the previous mentioned, Decoration Day is my favorite (although that are all great).
The album opens on a very mellow and somber note, "The Deeper In". Ah, but have no fear, "Sink Hole", the next cut, jumps right in with their highly recognizable charged "triple guitar attack" featuring a fantastic opening guitar riff (and great song to run to!). There are so many fantastic songs on this album, it is also impossible to cover them all in a quick and simple review. Feeling down in the dumps (maybe your girl has pissed you off?), well turn up track 3, "Hell No, I Ain't Happy". Or perhaps you pissed off your girl's dad, then "Your Daddy Hate Me" pretty much sums that situation up in six minutes of forty seconds angst and regret.
"My Sweet Annette" is a tender (in a DBT kind of way) song about forbidden love, and managed to get some airplay up here in the Annapolis, MD area a few year back. "Heathens" does a fantastic job molding, blending, and intertwining the slide guitar and fiddle throughout. And the title song, which leads us towards the end of this masterpiece of an album, is probably one of my favorite DBT songs.
Invariably, some critics will continue to downplay DBT as an updated version of Skynyrd. Seeing how Skynyrd was in their heyday while I was in diapers, it is tough for me to refute or agree with this comparison. I can say that I have had the wonderful opportunity of witnessing DBT live in concert, and there is honest, heartfelt passion in their music, coupled with a strong stage presence that I have rarely scene in today's music. In fact, the passion of Patterson Hood during the show reminded me Bono circa 1983 during Under a Blood Red Sky.
In an era of overplayed "adult-alternative-coffee-house-jam-rock" (think Dave Matthews) and cheap "alt-rock-U2-esque rip-offs" (think Cold Play), or bands that sing with a fake British accent, the Drive By Truckers are a refreshing and exciting reminder of what made guitar-driven rock exciting. If your tastes include Springsteen, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, the Allman Brothers, Uncle Tupelo, the Rolling Stones, Whiskeytown, Tom Petty, Counting Crows, and/or Will Hoge (and of course the aforementioned Lynyrd Skynyrd), and you haven't yet discovered DBT, I recommend starting with this soon-to-be classic!
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They earned wide acclaim with the double-disc Southern Rock Opera, a sprawling concept album about Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their three-guitar lineup and greasy look signify big, dumb rock in the minds of many, but their songwriting is relentlessly whip-smart. And what may be their greatest song, "The Living Bubba," is an ode to a righteous, hard-rocking redneck felled by AIDS. No, the Drive-By Truckers never do anything by the book, so it's no surprise that with Decoration Day, the band's first release for indie New West Records, Patterson Hood and his mates take another rewarding left turn. The album boasts a handful of crowd-pleasing, party-starting cuts, like the brash, cranky rocker "Hell No, I Ain't Happy" and the Stones ringer "Marry Me." Yet more common are moments of startling beauty (the steel solos on "The Deeper In" and "Loaded Gun in the Closet" and the jangling guitars, rolling melodies, and soulful fiddle breaks of "Heathens" and "My Sweet Annette") and heavy doses of recrimination and regret, as in the back-to-back suicide tunes "When the Pin Hits the Shell" and "Do It Yourself." --Anders Smith LindallAlternative Rock Music CDs
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