Drive-By Truckers – The Complete Dirty South (2-LP Vinyl)
The definitive edition of Drive-By Truckers' most ambitious album adds bonus material to an already sprawling double LP of Southern storytelling. The Complete Dirty South includes the original album's tales of forgotten country musicians, small-town criminals, and regional ghosts, plus additional tracks that expand the narrative scope. For fans who thought they knew this landmark album inside out, here's more to discover.
The Dirty South marked the peak of the Jason Isbell-Patterson Hood-Mike Cooley guitar army, a three-headed monster of Southern rock storytelling that produced some of the finest American roots music of the 2000s. Carl Perkins in Cottondale, Puttin' People on the Moon, The Buford Stick—these songs entered the DBT canon immediately upon release, and the bonus material reveals alternative paths the album might have taken.
Patterson Hood has always been generous with context, and the expanded Dirty South delivers on that promise of completeness. For a band whose albums already tell stories, these additional tracks add crucial chapters to what many consider their definitive statement.
2-LP Vinyl. New West Records. Complete edition with bonus tracks. Peak Jason Isbell-era DBT. Expanded Southern rock storytelling.