Drive-by Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
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Artist: Drive-by TruckersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-18
Music Label: New West Records
Soundtracks:
- Feb 14
- Gravity's Gone
- Easy On Yourself
- Aftermath USA
- Goodbye
- Daylight
- Wednesday
- Little Bonnie
- Space City
- A Blessing And A Curse
- A World Of Hurt
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Free Music Review: What's There Not To Like?
Hit: 4 Stars
Another reviewer said this album lacks breadth & depth. He must be listening to another album. This is The Drive-By Truckers. This is what they do. If you like them then what's there not to like? I've yet to hear an album of theirs' that isn't a 4-star minimum. Brighter Than Creation's Dark and Pizza Deliverence are definite 5-star records and possibly The Dirty South too which is fantastic. I haven't yet heard Decoration Day or Gangsterbilly but I'm sure they will be great too. Great guitar-based rock music!
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Known for two big-idea concept albums, Southern Rock Opera (dedicated to Lynyrd Skynyrd) and The Dirty South (a 70+ minute exploration of their Alabama roots), the Drive-by Truckers here go economical with a 45+ minute rock album. Three singers (all guitarists, to boot) ensure that moods shift often, even with every voice bearing a sand-blasted quality that grit-pocks everything. Patterson Hood tackles most of the tunes, sounding like a roughed-up Faces on "Aftermath USA," detailing drugs and deterioration against boogied-up guitars, and sounding a more sensitive side on "Goodbye" and "Little Bonnie" (another in a line of Truckers' funeral tunes). With a barrel-chested croak of a voice, Mike Cooley runs down the rudderless-ness of love and desperation on "Gravity's Gone" and slow, acoustic tenderness on "Space City." The loudest guitarist, Jason Isbell, takes on two tracks: "Easy on Yourself" and "Daylight," where he alternates between wry fury and a yearning pine for more time, more space. Isbell basks in an array of slide-guitar throwdowns, always leaving a signature sound the way Skynyrd's Allen Collins and Gary Rossington did in their glory days. All in all, this is a calmer Truckers set, less ragged and more polished--but rest assured: Their live sets still smoke like their 40 Watt Club DVD from 2005. --Andrew BartlettYou hear about "the greatest band in the world" being dropped on many a group, desperately given this medal in hopes they'll use it to "save rock-n-roll," whatever that means. But no band that has had to suffer under this artificial responsibility has succeeded so triumphantly as Drive-By Truckers. Equal parts back porch historians, runaway drunken firecrackers, and poets of the hard life and how to live it; they came on the scene and set the bar higher for what you can do with the music we love. The songs on this record illustrate the triumphant struggle it is to survive and thrive in this world. It's not only a great record, but an important statement delivered honestly and passionately without any sugar coating or details spared. It's a refinement, a honing, and a focusing of what you've always loved about them, what makes this band the greatest band in the world.
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