A Truer Sampler 04 - Drive By Truckers

Now this one was incredibly hard to whittle down, they have so many good songs. And I don't want to hear any crap about the artwork either....I tried and tried and that's the best I could come up with...I just went for the cheese factor like their early album covers :P......besides, you can print it out and color it if you want. So I talk about DBT alot on here, they are one of my absolute favorite bands, they are actually THE band that restored my faith in new music. See I had kind of lost faith in new music sometime around '98/'99. I just couldn't find anything that excited me, that is until I discovered the mighty Drive-By Truckers.

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But before I get into that let me talk about the local record shop (RIP) I used to frequent. This is the same shop I would go buy all the SCOTS & Old 97's albums and they had a killer section for this type of music that didn't have a label on it because that was before anyone had settled on a proper name. Well anyway, this section on the CD rack was only about 4 rows of CD's but it was all killer stuff, and sometimes I would just buy something from there to see what it sounded like. Well one of the CD's they had in there that I must have picked up a gazilion times to look at but for some reason never bought was a CD called "Gangstabilly" by a group called "Drive-By Truckers". Now I never bought it cause I thought it would be some cheesy cheesy music....novelty music. This is one of the biggest mistakes I have ever made concerning a music purchase. It wasn't until years later that I heard about this strange band called Drive-By Truckers again....I had read a few reviews in a couple magazines of their album "Southern Rock Opera" which was highly spoken of. So I downloaded a few tracks (this was in Napster's heyday) and was just blown away by songs like "Zip City" and "Ronnie and Neil". I went out and bought "Southern Rock Opera" the next day. Now this was right before "Decoration Day" came out. When it did come out, I ran out and bought that too.....the day it was released.....which I have done with every one of their albums since. They were the first band I was genuinly excited about in years.....I felt like I was a young'n again just discovering music.....and they opened the door for me to dig deeper into new music and I started discovering all kinds of stuff I was not even aware was out there. And I'm still excited about music now, their's in particular....and for that I would like to thank them.

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I had to cut alot of good songs from this, some of my faves too like: Nine Bullets, Ronnie and Neil, One of These Days, Company I Keep, Sounds Better In A Song, Sinkhole, Where The Devil Don't Stay, Cottenseed, Danko/Manual, Goddamn Lonely Love.....just too many to list that I had to cut, I could have easily made this a double discer.....but I would encerouge each and everyone of you, if you don't already own them to go out and get everyone of their albums. If you only got the bread for a couple albums, then definitely at least get "Decoration Day" and "The Dirty South". Those two are essential. After that get the DVD "Live at the 40 Watt", then "Southern Rock Opera", "Pizza Deliverance", "Gangstabilly", the amazing early live album "Alabam Ass Whoopin" & Patterson Hood's solo album "Killers & Stars"....then if you like all that get "Blessing and a Curse".

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Buy Their Albums Here

http://www.drivebytruckers.com/

http://www.ninebullets.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-By_Truckers

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ATS04 - Drive By Truckers