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Drive-By Truckers in Charleston: Let There Be Rock

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard.com — A lot of ground is covered at Drive-By Truckers shows these days. In addition to the band’s typically roaring takes on lives, politics, the broken social contract, Southern and Northern identity, violence both domestic and in foreign sands, whiskey-fueled sadness and fast-fading hope, they’ve now expanded to take on soldiers returned from overseas, [...]

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Drive-By Truckers’ future looking ‘Brighter’

Posted in Billboard, Interviews, Music, mp3, tagged , on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard.com - First things first: the Drive-By Truckers’ seventh record, “Brighter Than Creation’s Dark,” due Jan. 22 on New West, is extremely long. Nineteen tracks long, can’t- burn- two- seconds- more- on- the- CD long, long enough that Patterson Hood says it would have probably been a double album if the record company had been [...]

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Review: Drive-By Truckers: "Brighter Than Creation’s Dark"

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , , on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard - The Drive-By Truckers’ seventh album is a sprawling scorcher, and while these guys certainly aren’t strangers to long records, “Brighter Than Creation’s Dark” is one of the meanest, leanest 19-track albums you’ll ever spin. Yet where DBT usually hits the ground running, “Dark” is deliberately slower to burn, full of beautifully considered stories [...]

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