Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South Reissued on 180-Gram Vinyl LP

We Have the Last Remaining Copies of These Out-of-Print LPs!

Gatefold LP Artwork Features Detailed Wes Freed Illustrations!

The Dirty South is the sixth album by Muscle Shoals, Alabama-based Drive-By Truckers. While previous Southern rock bands have celebrated certain regional mythologies, this quintet revels in the towering glory of small, gritty realities.

Dark, mean, and replete with ear-bleeding riffs, 2004's The Dirty South is a
gritty set of hard-stomping boogies, poignant acoustic waltzes, and
declarative rock n' roll played with bracing conviction. Here, Jason Isbell
joins vocalist/guitarists Mike Cooley and Hood as a principal songwriter,
sharpening the band's historical fiction and personal reflections. Recorded
on two-inch analog tape, the bold, brawny sound presents the Truckers in all
their ragged glory. Turn it up and feel the unmistakable hum of warm amps,
guitars that toll like funeral-mass bells, and clang of auto-parts
percussion. -Bob Gendron, The Absolute Sound, October 2004

As on previous albums, the Drive-By Truckers back their ambitious, word-dense songs with down-and-dirty Southern rock that's direct and bare-boned, yet often explosive. The three songwriters--Hood, Cooley and Jason Isbell--are also three rowdy guitar players, and their triple-prong attack instills songs like "Where the Devil Don't Stay" and the live staple "Lookout Mountain" with a raw intensity. Shonna Tucker, who replaced Earl Hicks on bass, and drummer Brad Morgan form a confident rhythm section, accommodating gritty guitar solos and letting the songs sprawl and stretch in unexpected directions. Though rooted in countless major influences--from .38 Special to Skynyrd to The Band (as explained on Isbell's "Danko/Manuel")--the Drive-By Truckers' Southern rock always sounds homemade, and like liquor from a still, it's extremely potent. -Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, August 2004

The Drive-By Truckers The Dirty South Track Listing:

1. Where The Devil Don't Stay
2. Tornadoes
3. The Day John Henry Died
4. Puttin' People On The Moon
5. Carl Perkins' Cadillac
6. The Sands Of Iwo Jima
7. Danko/Manuel
8. The Boys From Alabama
9. Cottonseed
10. The Buford Stick
11. Daddy's Cup
12. Never Gonna Change
13. Lookout Mountain
14. Goddamn Lonely Love