Drive-By Truckers - Gangstabilly (Dig)
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Artist: Drive-By TruckersEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Music Label: New West Records
Soundtracks:
- Wife Beater
- Demonic Possession
- The Tough Sell
- The Living Bubba
- Late For Church
- Panties In Your Purse
- Why Henry Drinks
- 18 Wheels Of Love
- Steve McQueen
- Buttholeville
- Sandwiches For The Road
Music reviews of Gangstabilly (Dig)
Music Review: Nice Tunes and Some Noisy Rockin' Ones
Rating: 4 Stars
You can almost divide this album up into jangly and rockin' tunes. I was really surprised by this album when I got it. Pleasantly. "The Tough Sale" sort of reminds me of U2's "Bullet the Blue Sky." Not that it sounds like it or anything, but just sort of how the story is laid out. At first, that song was sort of annoying, but it kept drawing me in. I think the lyrics are pure poetry.
A lot of songs on this album hit me right in the gut. "The Living Bubba" is a true story about a musician friend of Patterson's who had AIDS but nevertheless continued on playing shows and not giving up on living. Cooley's "Panties in Your Purse" is another song that is put together lyricly well.
The second side is more rocking, but it is also kind of jarring to me. I don't know if there wasn't just another album they could have saved these for, or what. But "Steve McQueen" and "Buttholeville" just don't do it for me musically like "Sandwiches for the Road" does. "Sandwiches" is the final track on the CD, and it leaves the listener with the simple message, "Nothing can hurt you but yourself." And what a fantastic gem of country-rock Zen it is.
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Description of Gangstabilly (Dig)
Re-issue of long out of print CD from the Drive-By Truckers. Re-mastered with up-dated linner notes from Patterson Hood.These Alabama rockers achieved critical acclaim for 2001?s double-CD Southern Rock Opera, a two-act, Tommy-goes-to-Dixie opus juxtaposing the tragedy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the life of the Truckers? prolific songwriter and enigmatic vocalist Patterson Hood. But long out of print even before Opera?s release is the simpler and more impulsive 1998 debut Gangstabilly (also remastered and re-released on New West Records), a 48-hour live-in-the-studio jam session of boiled-over twang, double-barrel rock and roll and South-deprecating wit. While nothing is off-limits in Hood's Deep South reconnaissance--Faberge cologne, domestic violence, Led Zeppelin, Republicans in hell, Porter Wagoner, baloney sandwiches and '68 Bonnevilles--the Truckers tread on the imagery with reverence rather than mockery. A tribute to late actor "Steve McQueen" is faster than the car-chase scene in Bullitt. The crudeness-meets-reality of "Buttholeville" is as much white heat as it is white trash. And Hood?s "The Living Bubba," about an Atlanta musician dying of AIDS who "can?t die now cuz I got another show," turns from an earnest tribute to a "no preachin', no self-servin'" message from a band with a conscience--and a future. - Scott Holter
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