It's Great To Be Alive!

It’s Great to be Alive!, the sprawling, three-plus hour document of Drive-By Truckers’s 2014 three-night stand at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium, is a carefully curated record that does a great job pretending to be a raw, unfettered representation of a single night.

One of the reasons the Drive-By Truckers have matured into one of America's finest rock & roll bands is ambition; they're solid players and write great songs, but just as important, they take storytelling seriously, and when they make an album, they strive to do more than just serve up a bunch of new songs.

Patterson Hood exclaims near the end of It’s Great To Be Alive!