"Nobody told me it'd be easy - or for that matter, be so hard."
The Drive-By Truckers are an American rock band in the purest sense of the word; there's not a whole lot of nuance to be found in their extensive back catalog. Still, with Southern Rock Opera, they turned a corner by making the smartest and somehow most endearing concept album of my time. From that point on, they've been every man's everyman, beating Springsteen at his own game by virtue of simply not being wildly famous. Articulate but forceful, there's something compelling about them as a guitar rock band.
The standout track on today's release, The Big To-Do, seems thematically appropriate for a number of the lives that intersect with mine on a regular basis. It arrived in my Twitter feed at a shockingly significant moment, ensuring that it will be one of the last songs standing when it comes time to make a 2010 mix.
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