The Big To-Do

AlbumMar 16 / 201013 songs, 53m 45s
Alt-Country Country Rock Southern Rock
Popular Highly Rated
7.4 / 10

The DBTs return, focusing on the songwriting of Patterson Hood and refreshingly reconnecting with the macabre and darker corners of the American psyche.

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For true believers, Drive-By Truckers albums are like sprawling 10-course banquets that provide continued nourishment over the course of many listens. For the uninitiated, though, all the meaty character studies and bombastic arena-rock posturing can be a little rich and difficult to digest. Enter The Big To-Do, which…

For 12 years now, Athens, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers have been conjuring up a vivid world in which the swamps are choked with the victims of psychopaths, the local whores are shrinks and booze turns livers into leather.

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Blue-collar bards tell an epic tale

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In this modern age of flavour-of-the-moment music, Georgia’s Drive-By Truckers should be viewed as something of an institution, with The Big To Do marking the release of their eighth studio album, and over twelve years of garrulous white-trash storytelling.

The Big To-Do’s workmanlike consistency belies its lack of truly astonishing highs.

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<p>The Georgia-based rockers plough a familiar but satisfying storytelling vein, says <strong>Tom Hughes</strong></p>

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Critics’ darlings since their inception in 1996, the Drive-By Truckers have run roughshod over the implications and misconceptions assigned by the term “Southern rock.”

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Drive-By Truckers is a picture of consistency in a time of tumultuous musical uncertainty. DBT has released an album of critically acclaimed wordy Southern rock at least once every two years since its debut record in 1998. It's 2010, Brighter Than Creation’s Dark came out in 2008, so that must mean it’s time for another

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