Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse Reissued on 180-gram Vinyl

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

The follow-up to 2004's The Dirty South, also reissued and remastered on 180-gram LP, the Drive-By Truckers' A Blessing and a Curse steps back from concept-based narrative approaches and functions as a hard-rocking collection of 11 engrossing individual stories. As always, the band's triple-guitar attack is something to behold, while songwriters Pattersoon Hood, Jason Isbell, and Mike Cooley continue to capture everyday America and romantic matters with equal parts colorful description, emotional candor, and learned wisdom.

In the past decade, Drive-By Truckers have evolved from jokey Lynyrd Skynyrd heirs to ace songwriters chronicling Southern lives full of wrecked marriages, natural disasters and shitty jobs. The Truckers' seventh album isn't as detail-rich as 2004's The Dirty South, but it's another engaging variation on old-school Southern rock. Amid ragged riffs, light honky-tonk and elegant slow stuff, the Truckers turn in tuneful, finely wrought story-songs. -Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone, June 2006

"'To love is to feel pain,' solemnly states Hood during "A World of Hurt,"
the bare-bones ballad that closes his band's latest studio album. The
spoke-sung conclusion--as well as several other adages about emotion,
persistence, and perception Hood utters as if reading from a post-suicidal
diary entry--are the core themes surrounding 2006's A Blessing and a Curse, a
work whose central tenet holds that without tenacious struggle and both good
and bad times, life isn't really lived at all. Sonics are simple, present,
and alert. When sticks hit drum skins, the beats respond with realistic
kickback. -Bob Gendron, The Absolute Sound, April 2006

Drive-By Truckers A Blessing and a Curse Track Listing:

1. February 14th
2. Gravity's Gone
3. Easy On Yourself
4. Aftermath USA
5. Goodbye
6. Daylight
7. Wednesday
8. Little Bonnie
9. Space City
10. A Blessing And A Curse
11. A World Of Hurt