Southern Rock Opera (Deluxe Edition / 2024 Mix) Drive-By Truckers

• 1 Days Of Graduation (2024 Mix) 02:36
• 2 Ronnie And Neil (2024 Mix) 04:57
• 3 72 (This Highway's Mean) (2024 Mix) 05:28
• 4 Dead, Drunk And Naked (2024 Mix) 04:52
• 5 Guitar Man Upstairs (2024 Mix) 03:16
• 6 The Southern Thing (2024 Mix) 05:08
• 7 The Three Great Alabama Icons (2024 Mix) 07:19
• 8 Wallace (2024 Mix) 03:26
• 9 Zip City (2024 Mix) 05:15
• 10 Let There Be Rock (2024 Mix) 04:18
• 11 Road Cases (2024 Mix) 02:42
• 12 Women Without Whiskey (2024 Mix) 04:19
• 13 Plastic Flowers On The Highway (2024 Mix) 05:01
• 14 Cassie's Brother (2024 Mix) 04:58
• 15 Life In The Factory (2024 Mix) 05:28
• 16 Shut Up And Get On The Plane (2024 Mix) 03:38
• 17 Greenville To Baton Rouge (2024 Mix) 04:11
• 18 Angels And Fuselage (2024 Mix) 08:02
• 19 Birmingham (2024 Mix) 05:03
• 20 Mystery Song (2024 Mix) 04:01
• 21 Moved (2024 Mix) 04:17
• 22 Don’t Cockblock The Rock (Live In Atlanta, 11/24/01) 04:14
• 23 Zip City (Live In Atlanta, 11/24/01) 05:14
• 24 Road Cases (Live In Atlanta, 11/24/01) 02:56
• 25 72 (This Highway's Mean) (Live In Atlanta, 11/24/01) 05:35
• Total Runtime 01:56:14

Info for Southern Rock Opera (Deluxe Edition / 2024 Mix)

Drive-by Trucker veröffentlichen eine Deluxe-Edition von "Southern Rock Oper" zum 20. Jubiläum. Das Doppelalbum wurde bei seiner Erstveröffentlichung im Jahr 2001 zu einem Americana-Klassiker. Die Jubiläumsversion hat einen neuen Mix von Albumproduzent Dave Barbe und enthält fünf Bonustitel (das unveröffentlichte „Mystery Song“ und vier Live-Auftritte aus dieser Zeit).

Southern Rock Oper wurde ursprünglich 2001 auf Soul Dump Records selbst veröffentlicht und durch Kredite von Freunden und Familie finanziert. Das Album, das dritte der Band, wurde 2002 weltweit über das Label Lost Highway Records wiederveröffentlicht. Die Platte berührt Themen wie Politik und Rasse und verfolgt den Aufstieg einer fiktiven Rockband namens Betamax Guillotine, deren Karriere an Lynyrd Skynyrd.

„Es geht um das Aufwachsen im Süden und die falschen Vorstellungen der Menschen darüber“, sagte Patterson Hood Die Birmingham News im Jahr 2001. „Weißt du, man denkt, hier ist jeder wie George Wallace, und die Fernsehaufnahmen von Polizeihunden und den Stufen des Schulhauses. Aber da war zur gleichen Zeit die ganze Musikszene von Muscle Shoals, mit weißen Musikern, die Leute wie Aretha Franklin und Wilson Pickett unterstützten.“

Drive-By Truckers:
Mike Cooley, Gitarren, Gesang
Patterson Hood, Gitarren, Gesang
Jason Isbell, Gitarren, Gesang
Earl Hicks, Bass
Brad Morgan, Schlagzeug

Produziert von Drive-By Truckers mit Dick Cooper und David Barbe
Deluxe Edition produziert von David Barbe
Aufgenommen im wunderschönen Stadtzentrum von Birmingham, AL. von Earl Hicks und Dick Cooper
Remix von David Barbe bei Chase Park Transduction, Athens, GA.
Remastered von Greg Calbi und Steve Fallone bei Sterling Sound, Edgewater, New Jersey

Digital remastered

Drive-By Truckers
is finally back on the road after the year and half pandemic lockdown. Just in time to celebrate our 25th birthday.

The band had just released its 12th studio album in January 2020. The Unraveling was mostly recorded in Memphis at Sam Phillips Recording Service – nine new songs detailing the horrific state of MAGA America in songs that addressed white supremacy, school shootings and the opioid crisis.

The album earned excellent reviews (including later being named “Album of the Year” by Rolling Stone in France) and we set out on the road playing shows up the east coast including NYC, Boston and DC. Unfortunately, the pandemic happened and we only completed one three-week leg of what was supposed to be a 15-month tour.

In lockdown, we all did what we could. Cooley, Jay and I played numerous virtual shows from our respective homes. Matt Patton built up his already successful studio (Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, MS) and album productions including acclaimed records from Bette Smith and Jimbo Mathus. Jay Gonzalez released his third excellent solo album Back to the Hive.

I wrote two new songs inspired by the BLM protests occurring around the country and the federal occupation of my adopted hometown of Portland, OR. We combined them with some tracks we had already recorded in Memphis and released The New OK.

Its nine songs picked up where The Unraveling had left off, continuing the themes of an unraveling country, but also breaking away on a more personal front. It included the title cut single (which had a very moving video centered on the Portland protests) and the song “Tough To Let Go” which displayed a poppier side of the band than is usually mentioned. It got stellar reviews and ended up in UNCUT Magazine’s Top 5 at the end of the year.

With the lockdown ending and shows starting up again, DBT is excited to reactivate in a big way. I have solo dates, Cooley and I are going out to play some Dimmer Twin dates including three shows in NYC and an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. DBT will begin playing out in late July with a full-on tour beginning in August that will take us across the USA and our long delayed UK/European Tour next spring.

DBT will also begin work on our 14th studio album; one that should take us in some new directions. On tour, we‘ll be playing songs from all of our albums as well as surely premiering some new ones. As usual, we won’t be using a set list so anything goes.

Turn it up loud and see you at the Rock and Roll Show, Patterson Hood

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