http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/01/17/flagging-down-the-drive-by-truckers/ Mon, 12 May 2008 13:49:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/01/17/flagging-down-the-drive-by-truckers/#comment-3734 Mike Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:26:05 +0000 http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/01/17/flagging-down-the-drive-by-truckers/#comment-3734 Patterson and the Truckers are one of the best bands on the planet right now. Can't wait to hear the new album. All the best to them on the road this year. Patterson and the Truckers are one of the best bands on the planet right now. Can’t wait to hear the new album. All the best to them on the road this year.

]]> http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/01/17/flagging-down-the-drive-by-truckers/#comment-3753 bacardibat Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:09:28 +0000 http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/01/17/flagging-down-the-drive-by-truckers/#comment-3753 I to through music like someone banging speed. I'm lucky enough to be able to buy it constantly—more CDs than anyone could listen to carefully, but I still keep'em coming in out of boredom or habit or whatever. But even an ear as wandering as mine keeps coming back to some of the same records, and Dirty South is one of them. I get it that DBTs are a troupe of songsmiths who could each be out in front of his own band like, uh, Fleetwood Mac or something. But what I love about them is the storytelling. The "I's" in their songs don't just change according to the different singers. DBTs slip with ease outside of their personal experience into the I's of people they've known or read about and care about or are fascinated by, maybe scared of... Their songs don't leave me feeling like yet another self-important a-hole with a guitar is singing about himself every time I hear the word "I." DBTs don't just use that first person as a vehicle to sing about themselves; they use it as way of letting people into their music... people who might need to hear how even the awful stuff can be turned into something more tolerable (take, for instance, this killer song they're listening to). And for that reason, I think DBT are mightier than Fleetwood Mac. I’m looking forward to seeing them in Seattle. (DBTs, not Fleeetwood Mac.) I to through music like someone banging speed. I’m lucky enough to be able to buy it constantly—more CDs than anyone could listen to carefully, but I still keep’em coming in out of boredom or habit or whatever.
But even an ear as wandering as mine keeps coming back to some of the same records, and Dirty South is one of them. I get it that DBTs are a troupe of songsmiths who could each be out in front of his own band like, uh, Fleetwood Mac or something. But what I love about them is the storytelling.
The “I’s” in their songs don’t just change according to the different singers. DBTs slip with ease outside of their personal experience into the I’s of people they’ve known or read about and care about or are fascinated by, maybe scared of… Their songs don’t leave me feeling like yet another self-important a-hole with a guitar is singing about himself every time I hear the word “I.” DBTs don’t just use that first person as a vehicle to sing about themselves; they use it as way of letting people into their music… people who might need to hear how even the awful stuff can be turned into something more tolerable (take, for instance, this killer song they’re listening to).
And for that reason, I think DBT are mightier than Fleetwood Mac. I’m looking forward to seeing them in Seattle. (DBTs, not Fleeetwood Mac.)

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