Why the hell hasn't the new Drive By Truckers album leaked yet??

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I mean, come ON!! There are albums scheduled to be released in OCTOBER that are on slsk now fer chrissakes, this one comes out on the 26th (and OF COURSE I'm gonna buy it the day it comes out) - wtf? I can find Juan de la Cruz bootlegs on slsk but no Dirty South? I KNOW some of you have promo copies...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 30 July 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I check my connections and see what...OH WAIT, they fucking kicked my old friend Earl out of the band so Jason's fucking wife could play bass.

The less Truckers talk I see, the better.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Anyone heard this yet?

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Saturday, 21 August 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, didn't Earl quit?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 August 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It's leaked but I'm going to try really hard to not listen. Jessica and I just pre ordered two copies (we don't share). I'm so unbelievably psyched. Wifey and I are SUCH DBT fanboys/girls.

Johnny - do you really know Earl? I always liked him, especially live, but I'm optimistic about Mrs Isbell - she's been a session player and whatnot, correct? I mean, it's not like she's just some 'chick'

There's a part of me that really, really loves when husbands / wives start to slowly take over a band (or at least make an indelible mark in it) - This whole Isbell thing reminds me of Buckingham / Nicks, Keith / Donna et al, and I hafta say I'm lovin' the prospects!!

Wifey prefers Patterson but I think Isbell is really up there / underrated (Cooley is still my favorite though)

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Earl was fired for drinking too much; at least that's what I've heard through the grapevine. That's a ridiculous notion, considering Cooley's had to be slapped around to sober up and take the stage.

I went to college in the Shoals area before these guys picked up and moved to Georgia, and Earl sort of took me under his wing back then (made me mix tapes to turn me on to bands I hadn't heard, cooked food to eat when I'd be broke, etc). Even though I haven't seen him in quite a few years, I was pleased to see he'd been successful at doing something he loves.

I never knew Pat Hood or Mike Cooley all that well; just enough to say "hi" at parties. But there were a lot of people in the area that breathed a sigh of relief when Pat moved away, because his attitude was tiresome. I'm sure he's changed a little in the last 11 years (at least I hope he has), but kicking Earl out just let Jason's wife in is totally something the old Pat would have done.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 21 August 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

While Earl may have been fired for drinking too much (from what I heard Earl was having some family issues and didn't tell the band why his performance was lacking - I thought it was a more mutual split but who knows), he wasn't fired to let the wife in. They were looking for a new bassist and Pat Hood's father recommended her. She happened to be a friend of Isbell's from way back (coincidental) and they got together soon after.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 21 August 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair enough. Eventhough I feel like I've got some kind of attachment to the situation, it all went down several hundred miles away from where I am now and I've only got one or two people inbetween passing along information.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 21 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Why do I get the feeling Patterson was something of a pariah? He's always seemed super nice / down to earth to me (but then again, so did Ryan Adams when I met him).

Aww, hell, he could eat babies and we'd still be in the front row rockin' out

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The new album is awesome. Not quite as great as Southern Rock Opera, but better than Decoration Day. The band has never sounded better on record as they do on the new one, and Hood's singing is his best yet. Oh, and Isbell completely steals the show with his four songs.

― abegrand, Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

right now I don't think I'm liking it as much as the last two, on those albums you really got a better sense of the characters, how they think and feel, their motivations, etc. this one seems to be more about overt storytelling, more explication than real insight (i've decided patterson should be forced to do spoken prologues at the beginning of all his songs cuz "Boys From Alabama" is much more lyrically involved than, say, "The Sands of Iwo Jima"). that said, there are some great songs on here, i definitely agree with abe about Isbell's burgeoning greatness and Patterson's vocal performance, "Danko/Manuel," "Goddamn Lonely Love," "Boys From Alabama" and "Where the Devil Don't Stay" are early favorites.

whether the album succeeds musically is, I think, kind of moot. i know chuck thinks it drags ass, and i agree that sometimes it is a little sluggish, but personally i don't listen to dbt for the rock anyway but rather the lyrics and the passionate storytelling, honestly i can't really think of more than one or two really memorable riffs (maybe "marry me") or instrumental passages (the coda of "decoration day") they've ever done, so i really don't judge them on the same scale as someone like big and rich.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Saturday, 21 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm never gonna hold out till the 26th (or whenever the hell the package arrives) - psyched that there are four Jason songs.

I'm the biggest fan I know and, with the exception of maybe four songs, I don't like Southern Rock Opera that much. I love "72," "Dead Drunk & Naked," and "Let There Be Rock," but I don't think the rest holds a candle to Pizza Deliverance.

I think Decoration Day is the masterpiece though. Definitely in my all time top 20, easily.

and Big and Rich are 4 Non Blondes compared to DBT.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

True Pat Hood story: Adam's House Cat was written up in Musician Magazine once (1990-ish) and he ran into the record store where most of the Shoals' college rock scene were likely to be hanging out. "This is it, man! I can't wait to get out of this fucking town," he said.

Three years later, he moved to Athens. 14 years later, he makes a living from singing about "this fucking town."

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

so what?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's just say there's the normal resentment among a few people. Like Muscle Shoals isn't good enough to live in, but it's good enough to write about.

I've got no personal beef with Pat. But I'm friends with several people he's alientated over the years.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Gotcha. It's not like this is the first time I've heard about that. Oh well.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The new album works well as a companion piece to Decoration Day...more of the songs on The Dirty South are either about real people or based on real events, while the majority of the tunes on Decoration Day were more of the fictional variety.

I love Decoration Day to bits, but The Dirty South got to me more. Combination of things, I guess, like the emotion of "Tornadoes", "Danko/Manuel", which is gorgeous, Isbell's modern interpretation of "John Henry", the storytelling of "Carl Perkins' Cadillac", the re-recording of "Lookout Mountain" (which kicks ass), and overall, David Barbe's production, as the overall tone of the album is much more ominous.

And I think it would be safe to say that DBT have the best album artwork in rock music today (thanks to Wes Freed)...

― abegrand, Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

eh, bring back jim stacy

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 21 August 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote about THE DIRTY SOUTH a couple of times at http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com/ (may be in the archive at bottom of the page by now), because, because the first time, I came down pretty hard on what I called Hood's "tawkiness," meaning, he relies too much this time on a mundane, ramblin', tuneless kind of delivery and writing (the falsetto, for one thing, and the guy who sabotoges Buford's car, as well as the one who "never seen John Wyne in the sand of Iwo Jima," *sound* pretty wimpy, the way he presnts 'em. But then I listened some more, like I should've done beofre writng (blogs are too easy! Gotta watch myself, really) and realized that Patterson's "Tornadoes" was as eerie (vocal as well as witing) as one of Jason's, which, nowadays especially, is saying a lot. And P.H.'s "Lookout Mountain," even though they've doen it beofre, fits great into that final rockslide section of songs. And he's got other stuff on here, they all do (Shonna and Brad sound great too). Jason's distinctive, still getting better, *and* he's the most consistent singer--songwriter-guitarist of the three. It's been said that this is a follwup to SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA,and that DECORATION DAY was a followup to PIZZA DELIVERANCE. I can see that, as far as DD and PD being more acoustic therefore "country" and about tiwsted relationships, and SRO and DS are more electric therefore "rock" and more about twisted individuals, but really that's basically b.s., songs from each album could be fit into any of the others. "A town not good enough to live in, but good enough to write about" sounds reasonable to me (but then I'm still in the South, clean and/or dirty: right on/oh shiiiiT)(duality of the Southern thing)

― Don Allred, Sunday, 22 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

This is quite good, and I like it better than DD already, though the band's definitive statement was clearly SRO, so everything else they do, barring miracle, will be an afterthought.

If Patterson Hood is the soul of the band, Cooley is the black heart.

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Sunday, 29 August 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

josh did you go to the show?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 29 August 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone else think Isbell's songs are head and shoulders above the rest here?

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

they ARE pretty fucking fantastic

sorry for not weighing in yet - combination of still digesting and trying to square things away here in nyc...anyway, the short version is that it rules, of course

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Despite the fact that in my opinion 'Let there be Rock' is one of the greatest songs of the last couple of years, the only Hood track on this that hooks me is 'Putting People on the Moon.' I've only listened to the album three times through so far, but already I find myself wanting to skip over his tracks to get to Isbell's. Isbell's seem to have more subtlety and construction to them musically and lyrically.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

agreed, but that was true on Decoration Day too.

I think Cooley's songs fucking rule on this one too

I've said this before, but I absolutely love the emerging "Isbells up front" thing going on - all the press photos, plus that great one in the back of the boolet, totally make it look like they're taking over the band. Totally fuckingBuckingham/Nicks

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 30 August 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, Isbell and Cooley easily surpass Hood's contributions on this one, which is what I wrote in my review. Consequently, a friend/Truckers fan just told me that diehards on some DBT message board are in an uproar. One wants to find me and "tar and feather that sumbitch." Great.

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Monday, 30 August 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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