| Drive-By Truckers / Decoration Day |
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| Album: | Decoration Day | Collection: | Country | |
| Artist: | Drive-By Truckers | Added: | Jun 2003 | |
| Label: | New West Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2003-06-30 | Pull Date: | 2003-09-01 | Charts: | Country/Bluegrass |
| Week Ending: | Aug 31 | Aug 24 | Aug 17 | Aug 10 | Aug 3 | Jul 27 | Jul 20 | Jul 13 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 05, 2019: | The Iron Skillet Hell no I Ain't Happy | 4. | Jan 13, 2011: | Daydream Disaster My Sweet Annette | |
| 2. | Mar 08, 2013: | Trainee Takeover Sink Hole | 5. | Oct 19, 2010: | Daydream Disaster Heathens | |
| 3. | Mar 10, 2011: | Double Daydream Disaster Hell no I Ain't Happy | 6. | Feb 22, 2008: | Live From Six Feet Underground Hell no I Ain't Happy |
| Album Review |
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| Bill Cuevas Reviewed 2003-07-01 | ||
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This review was kindly contributed by George Light. Thank's George!! (especially for the "yankee translation"!) Drive-By Truckers, Decoration Day Quintet originally from Florence , AL (think Muscle Shoals) who now call Athens, GA home. Album produced by Athens native Dave Barbe (Sugar). Great Southern fried take on country rock and a fine collection of plaintive, melancholy tunes. Think edgier Eagles ("Ol. No. 49," "James Dean," and "The Last Resort"), mid-70s Stones (Exile to Some Girls), Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Outlaws (the country not the doobie stuff). Lest this laundry list of AOR behemoths scare you off; this record is utterly fresh filled with fine playing (see esp. Barbe's subtle additional guitar riffs on "Your Daddy Hates Me") and compelling characters developing out of sophisticated if greasy lyrics ("Outfit," "Sounds Better in the Song," "Loaded Gun in the Closet"). Choicest Tracks: 10, 6, 4, 8, 3 Yankee Translation: Decoration Day is the original post-bellum Southern moniker for Memorial Day 1) Don Henley as Johnny Reb doing a slow sad almost straight country tune about incest 2) Southern grotesques from Flannery O'Connorland 3) The first rocker on the album; the title suits its angry sound, dig the beer can opening 4) "Already Gone": Theme and Variations. Admit it you dig the riff , and these lyrics are way better than the Eagles'! 5) Features some fine pedal steel and fiddlin', companion to piece to track 4 6) The sad story of familial ties/traditions: "Don't worry about losing your accent / a Southern man tells better jokes" slow 7) Country meditation on The Bible Belt and its discontents 8) Features acoustic Upright bass and a finely critical take on "Freebird": "And 'Lord knows, I can't change', / sounds better in the song" 9) Medium tempo straight ahead rocker 10) Epochal; the long slow one that burns down the house. Barbe's guitar solo near the end is astonishingin its subtlety and force 11) sorta bland rocker 12) Wurlitzer solo; country rocker Parsonsesque vein 13) Eaglesy country stomp; think Farm Aid dixiestyle! 14) Longish title track, a fine entry in the anti-war canon; see "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" 15) Pedal Steel guitar; what family secrets do your closets hide? | ||
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