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Grass Roots Entertainment Review: |
Athens, Georgia's- The Drive-By Truckers |
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Alabama Ass Whuppin' |
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The Players: Patterson Hood Mike Cooley Rob Malone Brad Morgan
Tracks: Why Henry Drinks Lookout Mountain The Living Bubba Too Much Sex(Too little Jesus) Don't be in Love Around Me 18 Wheels of Love The Avon Lady Margo and Harold Buttholeville Steve McQueen People Who Died Love Like This |
By far, in my honest opinion, the funnest, rocking-est, raunchiest, all-time "get up on it" band in the United States of America. If you like your punk rock "Southern Fried", the Drive-By Truckers are just the ticket. Why these guys are an underground, unsigned band is everything that's wrong with the music industry today. These fellers are flat out performers! I got my hands on their CD Pizza Deliverance last year, not really knowing much about these boys who hail from my hometown. It's been a favorite of mine and all who I have let listen to it ever since! Another fix was needed desperately from the Drive-By Truckers and all prayers were answered when I received the live effort, "Alabama Ass Whuppin'". A flat out "Ass Whuppin" album which shows the boys in the purest element, a crowded and rowdy barroom. It was a brilliant move by the band to include the owner telling everyone to go home at the end of their set. How "real" can you get? The fellers included a couple of my favorites from Pizza Deliverance on the live album which were, "Margo and Harold", a stunning story about avoiding a dinner with two hypocrites and "Love Like This" a tweaked lament which sends today's "packaged country" to hell! The band also covers Jim Carroll's "People Who Have Died" very nicely without losing any of it's originality. "The Living Bubba" is a special tribute to Gregory Dean Smalley, Founder of Bubbapalooza, musician and hero to the Indie Music movement. "The Living Bubba" is an awesome tune which pays much respect to Smalley who passed away from AIDS in '95. Hood also sings a tribute to his mother in the form of "18 Wheels of Love" in which I thought was one of the best tracks on the the CD. Look for these guys to be around for a good long while, terrorizing country music fans with their psychotic twang and hard lyrical style. Long live the Drive-By Truckers!! Do yourself a favor and get "Alabama Ass Whuppin'" from the Drive-By Truckers at their site: or check them out at:
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