Southern Rock Opera (Deluxe Edition / 2024 Mix) Drive-By Truckers

• 1Days Of Graduation (2024 Mix)02:36
• 2Ronnie And Neil (2024 Mix)04:57
• 372 (This Highway's Mean) (2024 Mix)05:28
• 4Dead, Drunk And Naked (2024 Mix)04:52
• 5Guitar Man Upstairs (2024 Mix)03:16
• 6The Southern Thing (2024 Mix)05:08
• 7The Three Great Alabama Icons (2024 Mix)07:19
• 8Wallace (2024 Mix)03:26
• 9Zip City (2024 Mix)05:15
• 10Let There Be Rock (2024 Mix)04:18
• 11Road Cases (2024 Mix)02:42
• 12Women Without Whiskey (2024 Mix)04:19
• 13Plastic Flowers On The Highway (2024 Mix)05:01
• 14Cassie's Brother (2024 Mix)04:58
• 15Life In The Factory (2024 Mix)05:28
• 16Shut Up And Get On The Plane (2024 Mix)03:38
• 17Greenville To Baton Rouge (2024 Mix)04:11
• 18Angels And Fuselage (2024 Mix)08:02
• 19Birmingham (2024 Mix)05:03
• 20Mystery Song (2024 Mix)04:01
• 21Moved (2024 Mix)04:17
• 22Don’t Cockblock The Rock (Live In Atlanta, 11/24/01)04:14
• 23Zip City (Live In Atlanta, 11/24/01)05:14
• 24Road Cases (Live In Atlanta, 11/24/01)02:56
• 2572 (This Highway's Mean) (Live In Atlanta, 11/24/01)05:35
• Total Runtime01:56:14

Info for Southern Rock Opera (Deluxe Edition / 2024 Mix)

Southern Rock Opera is the third studio album by the American rock band Drive-By Truckers (DBT), released in 2001. Originally released as a double album covering an ambitious range of subject matter from the politics of race to 1970s stadium rock, Southern Rock Opera either imagines, or filters, every topic through the context of legendary Southern band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

New West Records is proud to present a remixed and remastered deluxe edition featuring a resequenced record as well as a third disc with multiple bonus tracks including a song - “Mystery Song” - that was recorded one night in Birmingham. Lead Singer, Patterson Hood, explains, ““Birmingham” and “Moved” were originally part of Act I on the original album release. This is the first version to feature “Moved” and we felt that “Birmingham” would be the best other song to move without messing up the story element of Betamax Guillotine. We moved them here to keep the vinyl sides within time of maximum high fidelity. (Under 23 minutes per mastering guidelines).

In the process of re-mixing the original tracks for the album, we stumbled upon a mysterious track that was recorded late one night in Birmingham. None of us have any memory whatsoever of recording it. The song itself was never even written down, just made up on the spot while the tape was rolling. We’re calling it “Mystery Song.” It’s actually a keeper.”

A lot has happened in the decades since it came out, both to the band and to the world we live in. We feel that the record, while somewhat timeless, also has a current timeliness to it considering the social and political issues of today. Instead of performing it as if it’s still 2000AD, we want to make it our own, reflecting who we all are now in 2024.

Drive-By Truckers:
Mike Cooley, guitars, vocals
Patterson Hood, guitars, vocals
Jason Isbell, guitars, vocals
Earl Hicks, bass
Brad Morgan, drums

Produced by Drive-By Truckers with Dick Cooper and David Barbe
Deluxe Edition Produced by David Barbe
Recorded in beautiful downtown Birmingham, AL. by Earl Hicks and Dick Cooper
Remixed by David Barbe at Chase Park Transduction, Athens, GA.
Remastered by Greg Calbi and Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound, Edgewater, New Jersey

Digitally remastered

Drive-By Truckers
is finally back on the road after the year and half pandemic lockdown. Just in time to celebrate our 25th birthday.

The band had just released its 12th studio album in January 2020. The Unraveling was mostly recorded in Memphis at Sam Phillips Recording Service – nine new songs detailing the horrific state of MAGA America in songs that addressed white supremacy, school shootings and the opioid crisis.

The album earned excellent reviews (including later being named “Album of the Year” by Rolling Stone in France) and we set out on the road playing shows up the east coast including NYC, Boston and DC. Unfortunately, the pandemic happened and we only completed one three-week leg of what was supposed to be a 15-month tour.

In lockdown, we all did what we could. Cooley, Jay and I played numerous virtual shows from our respective homes. Matt Patton built up his already successful studio (Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, MS) and album productions including acclaimed records from Bette Smith and Jimbo Mathus. Jay Gonzalez released his third excellent solo album Back to the Hive.

I wrote two new songs inspired by the BLM protests occurring around the country and the federal occupation of my adopted hometown of Portland, OR. We combined them with some tracks we had already recorded in Memphis and released The New OK.

Its nine songs picked up where The Unraveling had left off, continuing the themes of an unraveling country, but also breaking away on a more personal front. It included the title cut single (which had a very moving video centered on the Portland protests) and the song “Tough To Let Go” which displayed a poppier side of the band than is usually mentioned. It got stellar reviews and ended up in UNCUT Magazine’s Top 5 at the end of the year.

With the lockdown ending and shows starting up again, DBT is excited to reactivate in a big way. I have solo dates, Cooley and I are going out to play some Dimmer Twin dates including three shows in NYC and an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. DBT will begin playing out in late July with a full-on tour beginning in August that will take us across the USA and our long delayed UK/European Tour next spring.

DBT will also begin work on our 14th studio album; one that should take us in some new directions. On tour, we‘ll be playing songs from all of our albums as well as surely premiering some new ones. As usual, we won’t be using a set list so anything goes.

Turn it up loud and see you at the Rock and Roll Show, Patterson Hood

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