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Re: Drive-By Truckers: Coloring Outside the Lines

Jason Chervokas — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:43:41 -0000

Sean, yeah I wanted to go see 'em too but I'm gonna be out of town when they're here in NYC in a coupla weeks. Just my luck Ornette, DBT, and Back Door Slam (power trio from the Isle of Man led by a precocious 20 yr old guitar talent) are all playing NY while I'm away. Love to hear your report.

I agree that Hood's songs are generally better than Cooley's (and Isbell's may be better still and missed in the long run) but some of Cooley's on the new album, like "Bob", have have really grown on me over the last coupla weeks.

Re: Drive-By Truckers: Coloring Outside the Lines

sean — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:34:11 -0000

Brighter's good, to me their best since Decoration Day which is still tops by me.Since these guys like narrative so much I wish a bunch of these cuts had more exposition/didn't fade out so quickly. I do prefer Hood's songs to Cooley's but they do compliment each other fairly well. Gonna check them out live in a few weeks...

Re: Drive-By Truckers: Coloring Outside the Lines

oakling — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:39:23 -0000

I like the lyrics, but I love the retro-analog-two-sided-album thing. I'll have to check this out!

Re: Drive-By Truckers: Coloring Outside the Lines

OutOfContext — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:35:20 -0000

I first got into the Drive By Truckers by way of Mil Blogger The Apppalachian. I haven't gone too deeply into the back catalogue, but "Gravity's Gone" from A Blessing and A Curse is one of my favorite songs from the last couple years:
"So I'll meet you at the bottom if there really is one,
They always told me 'When you hit it, you'll know',
But I've been falling so long it's like gravity's gone and I'm just floating."

That's three-dimensional lyric writing by my book.
I'll have to give the new one a listen.