One of my very most favoritist bands around, The Drive-By Truckers, have announced that their new album -The Big To-Do- is going to be released on March 16, 2010.
These guys are incredible; if you like roots music this is the band for you. Their last full-length album, Brighter Than Creation's Dark, was made up of nineteen songs with nary a dud in the bunch. From the beautiful and tragic opener, Two Daughters & A Beautiful Wife -about a friend of the band whose entire family was murdered in a random home invasion- through to the album closer, Monument Valley, which imagines iconic director John Ford laying some knowledge on a protege, they strike not a single wrong note lyrically, musically or tonally. The album is a true work of art, the kind that rarely gets made in this era of 99 cent-per-song digital downloads.
From Two Daughters & A Beautiful Wife: "Memories replay before him; all the tiny moments of his life: Laying round in bed on a Saturday morning. Two daughters and a wife; two daughters and a beautiful wife."
And from Self-Destructive Zones, written from the point-of-view of a hair metal band at the beginning of the nineties, being overcome by the grunge movement: "It was 1990, give or take I don't remember, when the news of revolution hit the air; the girls hadn't even started taking down our posters when the boys started cutting off they're hair. The radio stations all decided angst was finally old enough it ought to have a proper home. Dead fat or rich nobody’s left to bitch about the goings' on in self destructive zones."
The Drive-By Truckers are a remarkable group of musicians and songwriters. They're a career band, making music to last; they might not storm the charts or get hounded by paparazzi, but in a perfect world they'd have their television network, broadcasting their music twenty-four/seven.
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