Drive-By Truckers – American Band (CD)
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Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley have spent two decades proving that the American South contains multitudes, from the complex Confederate history of *Southern Rock Opera* to the working-class portraits scattered across their catalog. *American Band* finds them at their most direct and urgent, written in the thick of a country fracturing along lines of race, guns, and political identity, with songs rooted in real events and real names.
A powerful and legitimately provocative work, hard edged and finely honed, the album is the sound of a truly American Band a Southern American band speaking on matters that matter. DBT made the choice to direct the Way We Live Now head on, employing realism rather than subtext or symbolism to purge its makers own anger, discontent, and frustration with societal disintegration and the urban/rural divide that has partitioned the country for close to a half-century. Fueled by a just spirit of moral indignation and righteous rage, AMERICAN BAND is protest music fit for the stadiums, designed to raise issues and ire as the nation careens towards its most momentous election in a generation.
Tracklist
UPC: 880882262129
Label: Ato Records
Release Date: 9.30.16
Format: CD