THE DRIVE BY TRUCKERS - SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA (CLEAR VINYL 2LP)

Drive By Truckers Southern Rock Opera on Limited Edition Clear Vinyl 2LP

Flaunting a mix of Southern pride, erudite lyrics, and a muscled three-guitar attack, the Drive-By Truckers became one of the most well-respected alternative country-rock acts of the 2000s. Led by frontman Patterson Hood and comprising a rotating cast of Georgia and Alabama natives, the band celebrated the South while refusing to paint over its spotty past. History, folklore, politics and character studies all shared equal space in the Truckers catalog, which offered up its first blast of gutsy, twangy rock with 1998's Gangstabilly. However, it was the band's ambitious double concept album, The Southern Rock Opera, that became their unlikely magnum opus. A two-act affair, the album explored Patterson Hood's fascination with 1970s Southern rock while tackling the cultural contradictions of the region, and it helped lay the groundwork for much of the band's subsequent work.

Drive By Truckers Southern Rock Opera Track Listing:

1.  Days Of Graduation
2.  Ronnie And Neil
3.  72 (This Highway's Mean)
4.  Dead, Drunk and Naked
5.  Guitar Man Upstairs
6.  Birmingham
7.  The Southern Thing
8.  Three Great Alabama Icons
9.  Wallace
10. Zip City
11. Let Ther Be Rock
12. Road Cases
13. Women Without Whiskey
14. Plastic Flowers On The Highway
15. Cassie's Brother
16. Life In The Factory
17. Shut Up and Get On The Plane
18. Greenville To Baton Rouge
19. Angels And Fuselage