Drive-By Truckers Album Poll

Those are 2 of them fer sure. I'd throw in That Man I Shot, too.

I like Shonna's songs on BTCD a lot, especially "The Purgatory Line," though I seem to be alone in this.

i like her stuff on the album fine, and in some ways prefer her presence on an album to isbell's. less meaty songwriter, but more genuinely a change-of-pace

Ewwww. I am not a fan. Though her songs did get progressively better as they went along.

I like her stuff just fine. Like SRO, and to an extent any long, double album, sometimes a change of pace/voice is all you need, quality be damned. And a song like "Purgatory Line" is lovely, much better than "Home Field Advantage."

I've liked all of her songs. Her voice has a nice old-timey quality to it

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I'd say those results are fairly predictable, but GGB was robbed (and who the hell voted for Gangstabilly??)

SRO was one of my absolute favorite albums at the time it came out and for a few years after. I kept going back to the well and being so disappointed by their later albums. Haven't heard anything after Brighter Than Creation's Dark. "Women Without Whiskey" for life.

Women Without Whiskey owns

Stereogum ranks'em. Pleased to see BTCD so high.

http://www.stereogum.com/1422101/drive-by-truckers-albums-from-worst-to-best/list/attachment/brighter-than-creations-dark/

I saw that, and would have reversed the order of their top 3: SRO>>BTCD>>DD. Decoration Day is obviously a good album, but it sometimes seems to me very much in line with other breakthrough albums with better distro and bigger labels/promotion that people rank high because it's the first thing they heard from the band.

How's tahe new album, "Alabama Ass Whoopin"? What're the high points?

it's actually a re-release of their 1999 live album, not technically a 'new album'

that live version of 18 Wheels of Love is pretty great

It's a great snapshot of them at their punkest and rowdiest. Definitive version of "The Living Bubba." Worth checking if you're a fan but not a great introduction. I haven't heard the remaster yet but word on the street is it sounds 100x better

Man, years ago I had some fan send me a couple of dozen CDs of early DBT shows. I should dig them out and dust them off ...

Ranking their six best.

Seeing them again this Saturday. And by again I mean again and again, because it's quite possible I've seen them more than any other act. 30 times? 40? Who can tell. The last time I saw them they were as good as I'd ever seen them. In 2002 or so I left a Bob Dylan show early to see the DBTs somewhere else. The first time I saw them was in Texas where they were on the same bill as ... Black Eyed Peas?

My tops remain Southern Rock Opera and Brighter Than Creation's Dark, but honestly there is not a single disc of theirs without its share of pleasures, passion and surprises. Maybe "A Blessing and a Curse" is the one I come back to the least? Even a lesser album like "Go Go Boots" has "Used to be a Cop," which is eerie and evil as fuck. And the early albums are remarkably assured and diverse and funny and powerful and smart.

I'm trying to remember, when was it that the band had its van stolen and solicited replacement music and mixtapes from friends and fans to make their drives more tolerable? Priorities!

Soto's ranking otm (never heard the pre-Opera albums). Creation is a marvel despite no Isbell tunes and the fact that I generally stop at "Checkout Time in Vegas"

Sime vital tracks pre-Opera, but at the least give "The Living Bubba" a listen. Incredible song, one of their best. Possible the first song Hood wrote for the DBTs? He once told me that if he was feeling off or not excited about a show he would start with that song, and by the end everyone was ready to go.