[musicfan]

I dunno if any HIP fans are on board with this band yet

They have a big sale on at Sam The Record Man...$11.99 for their new cd and their previous releases.

I picked up A Blessing and a Curse and The Dirty South and these ones I belive all HIP fans would love

It's straight up RnR. 3 guitar players

I also got their LIVE DVD and was BLOWN AWAY

just thought i'd mention it....mainly because I'd be surprised if HIP fans didn't like Drive By Truckers

[joshwayy]

Their latest album kicks ass. I just bought their first and I'm not so sure about it. I'm sure it will take afew more listens.

[Summiteer]

Yes, on board with DBT and Loving all there stuff, I just heard Pizza Deliverence and Loved it as well, and BAAC is wicked cool as well, DVD kicks arse, love the Dirty South, Southern Rock Opera is fantastic too, I'm hoping they make they're way up north, I'd fly down to see them, anyone know when they were last in Canada? I just ordered a promo cd with 2 unreleased songs and one is Like a rolling stone, excited to hear how they did with that classic....

[musicfan]

cool beans. nice to see some dbt fans here...though it doesn't suprise me, cause, well, hip fans are cool :lol:

i haven't bought their earlier cds but i just have the last 2 releases, and yes the new one rawks! i can't say enough about that dvd too.

i went to <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org">www.archive.org</a><!-- w --> and hit the live music archive there and they had a bunch of live shows for download there. so i suppose what happened is i heard people raving about them, then downloaded a live show from archive.org, loved it, and then went and bought the latest releases and will end up seeing them for sure soon.

anyways i forget what the date of the live show was but i kept playing the song "never gonna change" over and over and over, and well, you get the point....

my buddy said he saw them a couple of years ago at the horseshoe and that it was too loud...lmao...though he's kinda a folkie anyways...

i hope the sale at sam's still goes on for awhile cause i plan to get a couple more from their back catalogue


FINALLY for people who haven't got there yet...go to <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.archive.org">www.archive.org</a><!-- w --> and go to the live music archive and take a listen for yourself. i don't always pimp my new fave bands to strangers but this band has impressed the hell out of me

[AndGraceToo]

The Dirty South, baby!!!

[NMAS]

Decoration Day is great as well. Southern Rock Opera I don't have but have heard from others here that it is amazing

[joshwayy]

Check out http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...Id=5546929 for a download of a live gig at the 9:30 club in D.C.

NPR.org, July 25, 2006 · The Drive-By Truckers have been making bold, often epic southern rock since they first formed in Athens, Ga., a decade ago. Currently on tour for their seventh album, the band visited the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., for a night of live music, originally webcast in its entirety on NPR.org July 15.

The Drive-By Truckers features three guitarists and songwriters: Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell, along with bassist Shonna Tucker and drummer Brad Morgan. Hood and Cooley formed the band in 1996 after meeting in college and have since played with a revolving cast of other musicians.

The band's songs tell tales of drunks, widespread poverty, loveable losers and stubborn good ol' boys set against a backdrop of trailer parks and southern despair. They speak of "the duality of the Southern thing," pride and regret: the pride of belonging to a special place with a separate history, speaking in a distinct accent, and a feeling of discomfort, too, about some of that history and attitude.

The Drive-By Truckers first reached a major audience with its 2001 concept record Southern Rock Opera. The double album uses the rise and fall of the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd as a metaphor for the cultural fall of the South as a whole. It was followed by Decoration Day in 2003, The Dirty South in 2004 and this year’s A Blessing And A Curse.

[MCG]

I liked Dirty South but haven't picked up the new album yet. Sadly, no Sam the Record Man near me.

[arseface88]

I've only heard their double album, but some of the songs on it really dragged on for me. I've always prefered Southern Man to Sweet Home Alabama anyway.