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December 15, 2004

Drive-By Truckers

The Dirty South
August 10, 2004

Widespread Panic Spread Out

Three members of Georgia jam band ready solo projects
June 16, 2003

New CDs: Truckers, Tinsley

Reviews of "Decoration Day," "True Reflections" and more
June 24, 2002

Drive-By Truckers "Opera" Restaged

Band plans to tour through 2002, with new album due next year

Recordings and Reviews

Brighter Than Creations Dark

Prospects were poor for what turns out to be an overflowing song bag of an album by Lynyrd Skynyrd's arty nephews. Their last winner was 2004's The Dirty South, preceded by two others in close succession but followed by the disoriented A Blessing and a Curse and then the loss of tenor-songwriter...

2008 RS: 4of 5 Stars

A Blessing And A Curse

2006

Decoration Day

2003

Southern Rock Opera

2001

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Biography

Though blessed with literary talent, punk values, and a Muscle Shoals pedigree, the Drive-By Truckers are also unreconstructed rednecks, embodying "the duality of the Southern thing" long before they sang about it on Southern Rock Opera. And like true Dixie rebels, their fierce loyalty to their cause has often courted tragedy before glory. On Gangstabilly, leader Patterson Hood thanks friends and...

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