Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse

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  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    tybird wrote:
    Highway 72

    "That highway's mean"

    Sorry...couldn't help it.

    ;)

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    Awesome...
    should be turning it on for the homecoming leg here...

    :D
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Just checked tickets...only $20...not too shabby.

    It is my goal to see Zip City, Outfit and Dress Blues live...although I'm not sure I'll get to see Dress Blues.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Just checked tickets...only $20...not too shabby.

    It is my goal to see Zip City, Outfit and Dress Blues live...although I'm not sure I'll get to see Dress Blues.

    PBM
    I could do without "Outfit".........seen it live twice............."Dress Blue".......I have too lazy to download it, thus I would be interested. "Zip City"....hell yeah!!!! I would really love to hear the song that we have already referenced twice this morning............"72 (This Highway's mean)"
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    tybird wrote:
    "Dress Blues".......I have too lazy to download it, thus I would be interested.

    It's a great tune. Isbell has a nack for writing some really great songs with fantastic imagery.

    Seeing Outfit live is kind of like seeing Evenflow live...it's a rite-of-passage.

    This Great Car-Dealer War track is a new favorite...listened to it a lot yesterday.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    Goodesfield Road was amazing in Lancaster...

    Jason supposedly said in Ohio they aren't playing Dress Blues anymore...just got to be too much, or something.
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    likepilateihaveadog wrote:
    Jason supposedly said in Ohio they aren't playing Dress Blues anymore...just got to be too much, or something.

    ...and I understand that completely...especially if it's really a subject that he's sensitive about. I know he said he wrote it about someone he knew in high school. I imagine it would be hard performing that in front of a crowd if it held a special meaning to him.

    Great tune though.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    Great tune though.

    PBM

    I concur.
    I think his solo record might be the greatest thing ever. And we really don't even know what' on it yet.


    :D
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Tickets are being purchased as we speak. There's a big group of us going, so it should be a great time.

    I still would have liked to go to the Nashville show.

    There's nothing like being in a Nashville crowd when Cooley sings, "I got friends in Nashville...or at least they're folks I know..."

    ;)

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • grace6697
    grace6697 Posts: 1,191
    ok, here is the deal. so many music fans whose opinions i respect are into this band. i'm going to give them a try. where to start?
    take your money and your drugs.
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    grace6697 wrote:
    ok, here is the deal. so many music fans whose opinions i respect are into this band. i'm going to give them a try. where to start?
    "The Dirty South" would probably narrowly win the poll, followed probably by "Decoration Day". It gets hazy after that in regards to how the voting would run....some say the latest, "A Blessing And A Curse," while others stay behind "Southern Rock Opera."

    I would rank them in regards as where to start as thus:
    1) The Dirty South
    2) A Blessing and A Curse
    3) Decoration Day
    4) Southern Rock Opera

    If you do the ipod thing........Itunes sells a live set (Live at the 40 Watt) that is excellant.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    grace6697 wrote:
    ok, here is the deal. so many music fans whose opinions i respect are into this band. i'm going to give them a try. where to start?


    Goddamn Lonely Love...it's where I started. Got me hooked.

    Also check out Dress Blues:

    http://www.ninebullets.org/home/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=76

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • BrainOfJD
    BrainOfJD Posts: 242
    likepilateihaveadog wrote:
    I think his solo record might be the greatest thing ever.

    Seconded
    10 million dune buggies comin' down the mountain
  • likepilateihaveadog
    likepilateihaveadog Posts: 1,083
    PissBottleMan wrote:
    There's nothing like being in a Nashville crowd when Cooley sings, "I got friends in Nashville...or at least they're folks I know..."

    ;)

    PBM

    That's the Carl Perkins one, right?
    Teamwork. Rawk. Pwnage. Infinite Possibilities. YIELD. Hells yeah.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    likepilateihaveadog wrote:
    That's the Carl Perkins one, right?

    ;) Yeah.

    Just listening to the Feb. Nashville show...World of Hurt is so much better live. Patterson really nails it.

    "It's fuckin' great to be alive!"

    *Thanks Bill for reminding me to revisit that track

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • Red Lukin
    Red Lukin Canada Posts: 2,994
    I just saw DBT for the first time the other night and wow. What a show. I feel bad for ripping them off. $18 divided by the number of people in the band, plus set up grew. I think those guys worked a lot harder then earning only a couple bucks each. Oh well I'll donate by buying more albums.

    They played "Where the devils won't stay" (or whatever it's called) 2nd, and wow what a great way to get the show rolling. I didn't realize they had 3 singers, and all amazing at guitar, especially live. The guy who sings the devils song has an awesome voice live...really gets your attention.

    I liked the show so much I wanted to go to Buffalo last night, but I had plans. Detroit is tonight, but a tad too far from Toronto.
  • ledhed43
    ledhed43 Posts: 114
    tybird wrote:
    I believe that he is from the same area of North Alabama that his wife, Cooley and Patterson are from.........that area is halfway between Birmingham and Memphis............you take U.S. Highway 72 right on into Memphis. :)


    me and my friends met the band after the starkville show. isbell went to the university of memphis and played in the marching band. i have no idea what instrument though. he might have said but i was drunk and dont remember.
    Information is not knowledge.
    Knowledge is not wisdom.
    Wisdom is not truth.
    Truth is not beauty.
    Beauty is not love.
    Love is not music.
    Music is the best.

    ~Frank Zappa
  • NakedClown
    NakedClown Posts: 545
    likepilateihaveadog wrote:
    I concur.
    I think his solo record might be the greatest thing ever. And we really don't even know what' on it yet.


    :D

    Agreed
  • NakedClown
    NakedClown Posts: 545
    grace6697 wrote:
    ok, here is the deal. so many music fans whose opinions i respect are into this band. i'm going to give them a try. where to start?

    Spend the 18.98 or whatever and download both Decoration Day and Dirty South from I-Tunes... get into those, and then decide which way you want to go. Either way, you really can't go wrong...
  • NakedClown
    NakedClown Posts: 545
    PissBottleMan wrote:

    This Great Car-Dealer War track is a new favorite...listened to it a lot yesterday.

    PBM

    I've been playing it over and over and over...

    I can't wait for solo albums and new music from this band... so good...

    In the menatime, I am absolutely thrilled with what I've discovered by introducing myself to Slobberbone's back catalog...

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