In the dixie of The Dirty South, Reconstruction never ends, and the red in "red state" stands for fighting mad. "They say better days upon us/But I'm sucking left hind tit," growls guitarist Patterson Hood in the gnarled-Skynyrd broadside "Puttin' People on the Moon," one of fourteen loud and moving, war-at-home songs by the boldest 'n' baddest Southern band in the land.

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