Everyone's favorite southern rockers drivebytruckers have a new record out Friday. Take a look back at 15 of their best songs:
, and it’s sometimes hard to grasp that the refined and layered offering was created by the same band that so many wrote off as a humours detour through alt-country. The double disc is a concept album that tries to explain not only Southern rock as a genre, but also the duality of being from the South—the pride and the shame that comes with being born into such a tumultuous region. “The Southern Thing” might as well be the band’s anthem.
who went to war with the Dixie Mafia and other Tennessee gangers. “Cottonseed” is part of a three song cycle on the 2004 albumthat tells Pusser’s story from the other side. The narrator of “Cottonseed” is a bad man telling his story of crimes and sins, and Cooley pants the man as more pragmatic than evil.
—an album that saw the Truckers return to a more sedate, country-focused sound—starts with gently strummed acoustic guitars and sombre piano before a staccato banjo begins to ring out the melody. The song is set in the aftermath of a very real murder, the 2006 killing of Bryan Harvey.
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