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Drive-By Truckers
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Drive-By Truckers: The Burrs in Rock ‘n’ Roll’s SaddleThe Truckers earned universal acclaim for their well-crafted rock albums and raucous live shows, but 2008 marks a new era. PopMatters talks with Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood. [29 January 2008] Columns
Righteous PathsThe Drive-By Truckers' live shows once played like a songwriters-in-the-round session with electric guitars and increasingly empty bottles of Jack Daniels. Then Jason Isbell came along -- and it only got better. [9 June 2008] (more Field Studies) ReviewsDrive-By Truckers + The Whigs: 23 July 2009 - The Shoals Theatre, Florence, ALThe Drive-By Truckers play their hometown of Florence, Alabama for the first time in five years. [1 September 2009] 
Drive-By Truckers: The Fine Print (A Collection of Oddities and Rarities 2003-2008)Even a collection of Drive-By Truckers left-overs makes for a better album than many bands' A-material. 
Drive-By Truckers: Live from Austin TXLive from Austin TX is still an excellent document of a great rock 'n roll band doing what it does best. [17 August 2009] Drive-By Truckers: 19 March 2008 - TorontoThese days, the Drive-By Truckers are nearly revolutionary in their refusal to treat their music as ironic, as some kind of joyless, angsty joke. No, the Truckers live for this stuff. [17 April 2008] 
Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation’s DarkAlthough they haven't lost a step since Jason Isbell left, the Drive-By Truckers' seventh album doesn't know when to say when. [22 January 2008] 
Drive-By Truckers: A Blessing and a CurseA Blessing and a Curse continues to distance itself from the Truckers' "Lynyrd Skynyrd with a higher IQ" roots, drawing from both the Replacements and the Rolling Stones for its rock 'n' roll sound. [14 April 2006] Drive-By Truckers: 23 September 2005 - Austin, TXA great band on an off day is still better than some bands on their best. Here's proof... [5 October 2005] 
Drive-By Truckers: Gangstabilly / Pizza DeliveranceBulldozers, Bullets, and Buttholes: Early tales from the Dirty South from one of the best rock bands in America. [28 February 2005] Drive-By TruckersA warning for the By-curious. No smoke machines or fancy lights here, just two hours of solid, ass-kicking music. Sorry. [19 January 2005] 
Drive-By Truckers: Decoration DayNobody writes and plays such honest, thoughtful, loud rock ‘n’ roll as these guys do, and with this, their fifth album, you get the feeling that they’ve only just gotten started. [25 June 2003]
The Drive-by Truckers: Southern Rock OperaLynyrd Skynyrd's music has long been placed in a second-class category; now, the Drive-by Truckers are reclaiming its status as art while exploring 'the duality of the South'. [24 September 2001] News
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