DRIVE BY TRUCKERS Southern Rock Opera 2LP LOST HIGHWAY 2003 US orig+foc+booklet
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THIS IS THE 2003 US ORIGINAL PRESSING on LOST HIGHWAY Records. IN SHRINK GATEFOLD COVER + BOOKLET + HYPE STICKER. The cover is in EX condition: normal wear and without any major deterioration BUT light discolouration/wear on right corners [where missing shrink], left spine is fully readable; BOOKLET also in great condition; please for details see photos (with and without flashlight). Vinyls in EX condition [barely played] and play wonderfully.
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DRIVE BY TRUCKERS
Boasting a mix of Southern pride, erudite lyrics, and a muscled three-guitar attack, Drive-By Truckers became one of the most well-respected alternative country-rock acts of the 2000s. Led by frontman Patterson Hood and featuring a rotating cast of Georgia and Alabama natives, the band celebrated the South while refusing to paint over its spotty past. History, folklore, politics, and character studies all shared equal space in the Truckers catalog, which offered up its first blast of gutsy, twangy rock with 1998's Gangstabilly. However, it was the band's ambitious double-disc concept album, The Southern Rock Opera, that became its unlikely magnum opus. A two-act affair, the album explored Hood's fascination with '70s Southern rock (specifically Lynyrd Skynyrd) while tackling the cultural contradictions of the region, and it helped lay the groundwork for much of the band's later work"SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA" tracklist Side A: DAYS OF GRADUATION - RONNIE AND NEIL 72 (THIS HIGHWAY'S MEAN) - DEAD, DRUNK AND NAKED - GUITAR MAN UPSTAIRS
Side B: BIRMINGHAM - THE SOUTHERN THING THE THREE GREAT ALABAMA ICONS - WALLACE - ZIP CITY
Side C: LET THERE BE ROCK - ROAD CASES - WOMEN WITHOUT WHISKEY PLASTIC FLOWERS ON THE HIGHWAY - CASSIE'S BROTHER
Side D: LIFE IN THE FACTORY - SHUT UP AND GET ON THE PLANE GREENVILLE TO BATON ROUGE - ANGELS AND FUSELAGE
2003 2LP LOST HIGHWAY RECORDS 088 170 308-1
PRINTED IN U.S.A. ORIGINAL PRESSING
IN SHRINK GATEFOLD COVER + BOOKLET + HYPE STICKER
NOTES: Sticker on shrink wrap: LOST HIGHWAY Double LP-Deluxe Gatefold Package. Contains 16 Page Opera Libretto
Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: (text) 0 088 170 308-1 4 Label Code: none
LABEL: LOST HIGHWAY - RED LABEL - WHITE TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine) 088 170 308-1 Catalog on labels: (Disc One) Act I (Side A / Side B): 088 170 309-1 (088 170 308-1) (Disc Two) Act II (Side A / Side B): 088 170 310-1 (088 170 308-1)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 088 170 309-1 A Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 088 170 309-1 B Matrix / Runout (Side C, Etched): 088 170 310-1 A Matrix / Runout (Side D, Etched): 088 170 310-1 B
On labels: rim text reads "℗ & © 2003 UMG Recordings........Made in U.S.A....."
On Back Sleeve: +("MOVED" not available on vinyl)
grading RECORDS EX but (please, read above description) SLEEVE EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Don't be deterred by the rather misleading title. Not a rock opera in the sense of Tommy or Jesus Christ Superstar, this sprawling double disc is more akin to a song cycle about Southern rock, in particular Lynyrd Skynyrd. Almost six years in the making, the Drive-By Truckers have created a startlingly intelligent work that proudly stands with the best music of their obvious inspiration. Largely written and conceived by lead trucker Patterson Hood (son of famed Muscle Shoals bassist David Hood), who sings the majority of the songs in a torn, ragged, but emotionally charged twangy voice somewhere between Tom Petty and Rod Stewart, these 19 literate tracks encapsulate a remarkably objective look at what Hood calls "the duality of the South."...(AllMusic)
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