Music CD - Drive By Truckers: Decoration Day

	Music CD: Decoration Day Artist: Drive By Truckers List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $8.15 Your Save: $ 9.83 ( 55% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: New West Records
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Tracks: 1. The Deeper In 2. Sink Hole 3. Hell No, I Ain’t Happy 4. Marry Me 5. My Sweet Annette 6. Outfit 7. Heathens 8. Sounds Better In The Song 9. (Something's Got To) Give Pretty Soon 10. Your Daddy Hates Me 11. Careless 12. When The Pin Hits The Shell 13. Do It Yourself 14. Decoration Day 15. Loaded Gun In The Closet
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0607396604722 Label: New West Records Manufacturer: New West Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: New West Records Release Date: 2003-06-17 Studio: New West Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: My favorite DBT Album (of the ones I own) Comment: I've been a fan of the Drive By Truckers for about two years now, after discovering them via Internet Radio. Thus far, my modest DBT catalog includes Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day, The Dirty South, and A Blessing and a Curse. Of the previous mentioned, Decoration Day is my favorite (although that are all great). The album opens on a very mellow and somber note, "The Deeper In". Ah, but have no fear, "Sink Hole", the next cut, jumps right in with their highly recognizable charged "triple guitar attack" featuring a fantastic opening guitar riff (and great song to run to!). There are so many fantastic songs on this album, it is also impossible to cover them all in a quick and simple review. Feeling down in the dumps (maybe your girl has pissed you off?), well turn up track 3, "Hell No, I Ain't Happy". Or perhaps you pissed off your girl's dad, then "Your Daddy Hate Me" pretty much sums that situation up in six minutes of forty seconds angst and regret. "My Sweet Annette" is a tender (in a DBT kind of way) song about forbidden love, and managed to get some airplay up here in the Annapolis, MD area a few year back. "Heathens" does a fantastic job molding, blending, and intertwining the slide guitar and fiddle throughout. And the title song, which leads us towards the end of this masterpiece of an album, is probably one of my favorite DBT songs. Invariably, some critics will continue to downplay DBT as an updated version of Skynyrd. Seeing how Skynyrd was in their heyday while I was in diapers, it is tough for me to refute or agree with this comparison. I can say that I have had the wonderful opportunity of witnessing DBT live in concert, and there is honest, heartfelt passion in their music, coupled with a strong stage presence that I have rarely scene in today's music. In fact, the passion of Patterson Hood during the show reminded me Bono circa 1983 during Under a Blood Red Sky. In an era of overplayed "adult-alternative-coffee-house-jam-rock" (think Dave Matthews) and cheap "alt-rock-U2-esque rip-offs" (think Cold Play), or bands that sing with a fake British accent, the Drive By Truckers are a refreshing and exciting reminder of what made guitar-driven rock exciting. If your tastes include Springsteen, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, the Allman Brothers, Uncle Tupelo, the Rolling Stones, Whiskeytown, Tom Petty, Counting Crows, and/or Will Hoge (and of course the aforementioned Lynyrd Skynyrd), and you haven't yet discovered DBT, I recommend starting with this soon-to-be classic! Customer Rating: Summary: a little more rock, please Comment: This is a new band for me and my first album of theirs. Overall pretty stocked. I just wish more of their songs were faster. I'm not a big fan of slow songs; I like songs that make you want to boogie and play rippin' air guitar to. The ones that are fast absolutely ROCK and I can't turn up the stereo enough! But I do find that I'll skip songs to get to the rockin' ones. But I will buy another one of theirs. Customer Rating: Summary: Best Truckers Album! Comment: Great album, great lyrics...nothing more needs to be said except if you dont have it....get it! Customer Rating: Summary: Don't let'em take who you are boy Comment: And don't try to be who you ain't. Great lyrics as always. This may be my favorite of theirs. Hard to choose though. Masterpiece!! Customer Rating: Summary: H*** yes, I AM happy! Comment: I love Southern Rock. For some reason, I hadn't listened that much to DBT til "Decoration Day" was playing in my local indie record shop. The first song was great, the second blew me away. I liked the CD enough that I paid a LOT more than Amazon charges here to get "Decoration Day" on the spot so I could take it with me and listen. I expected the nitty gritty and DBT opened up with "The Deeper In" a story about a 19-year-old girl who fell for an older brother she scarcely knew and then ran off with him. There are other common themes. "Sink Hole" talks about hard times and the bank's repossession of land that's been in the family for 5 generations: House has stood through five tornadoes, Droughts, floods, and five tornadoes. I'd rather wrastle an alligator than to face the Banker's scorn Cause he won't even look me in the eye He just takes my land and apologize, with pen, paper, and a friendly smile, he says the deed is done. Of course, we've got love and marriage. "Marry Me" offers a proposal that's maybe as good as it gets--at least it's real: So Marry Me, Sweet Thing won't you Marry Me Your Mama thinks I beat anything she's ever seen. This old town's alright with me, there's nowhere I'd rather be. Long as they stay mad at one another, they can't get mad at me "Sweet Annette" talks about a mistake with the maid of honor at an engagement party that causes Sweet Annette to get left at the altar. And, of course, the inevitable breakup--but what a different take focusing on the parents' feelings, too: I know your Daddy hates me, I know I'd probably hate me too. But, I also know you don't hate me, even though you'd probably like to and ought to. And it's a little too late for writing love songs, but I never did anything on time. Happiness on your big adventure. See you Darling down the line. Really, the CD's just a treatise on Southern life from the cradle to the grave. "Outfit" offers life advice that I suspect is the DBT credo: Don't call what your wearing an outfit. Don't ever say your car is broke. Don't sing with a fake British accent. Don't act like your family's a joke. Have fun, but stay clear of the needle, call home on your sister's birthday. Don't tell them you're bigger than Jesus, Don't give it away. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: They earned wide acclaim with the double-disc Southern Rock Opera, a sprawling concept album about Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their three-guitar lineup and greasy look signify big, dumb rock in the minds of many, but their songwriting is relentlessly whip-smart. And what may be their greatest song, "The Living Bubba," is an ode to a righteous, hard-rocking redneck felled by AIDS. No, the Drive-By Truckers never do anything by the book, so it's no surprise that with Decoration Day, the band's first release for indie New West Records, Patterson Hood and his mates take another rewarding left turn. The album boasts a handful of crowd-pleasing, party-starting cuts, like the brash, cranky rocker "Hell No, I Ain't Happy" and the Stones ringer "Marry Me." Yet more common are moments of startling beauty (the steel solos on "The Deeper In" and "Loaded Gun in the Closet" and the jangling guitars, rolling melodies, and soulful fiddle breaks of "Heathens" and "My Sweet Annette") and heavy doses of recrimination and regret, as in the back-to-back suicide tunes "When the Pin Hits the Shell" and "Do It Yourself." --Anders Smith Lindall