Track Listing
1. Deeper In, The
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. Give Pretty Soon, (Something's Got to Give)
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
| Details | | Producer: | Dave Barbe | | Distributor: | RED Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Drive-By Truckers: Mike Cooley, Earl Hicks, Patterson Hood, Jason Isbell, Brad Morgan.
Additional personnel: David Barbe, Clay Leverett, John Neff, Spooner Oldham, Scott Danborn, Bob Spires, Shanna Tucker.
Recorded at Chase Park Transduction Studios, Athens, Georgia.
Though SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA is probably the Drive-By Truckers' most ambitious album, its follow-up, DECORATION DAY, is where the band really came into its own. The template they established on their first three albums--bluesy Southern rock with a raw punk edge and a contemporary alt-country tinge--is at it's most concise and visceral here, not only musically, but lyrically as well. In a manner not dissimilar to THE RIVER-era Springsteen, DECORATION DAY articulates working-class dilemmas with a winning mixture of thoughtfulness and rock 'n' roll abandon, understanding that the means of expressing those dilemmas is often indistinguishable from the way out of them.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2003
Rolling Stone (12/25/2003)
5 stars out of 5 - Some of the songwriting is exceptional...
Mojo (12/01/2003)
Ranked #22 in Mojo's The Best of 2003
Mojo (01/01/2004)
3 stars out of 5 - ...These five Alabama natives have made it their mission to keep the spirit of an era alive....There's a new sense of darkness and despair at their core...
Q (12/01/2003)
...It's clear their vision of a proud blue collar band is evolving... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (06/20/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...The leaner, softer, DECORATION DAY finds the Truckers ditching the three-guitar rave-ups and concept-album narratives of 2001's SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA in favor of tuneful evocations of the darker side of Southern life...
Rolling Stone (06/26/2003)
Spin (08/03, pp.111-2) - ...A raging, ragged BEHIND THE MUSIC--15 coal-black odes to the casualties that art leaves behind and that life can't avoid... - Grade: A
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