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Drive-By Truckers' 'The Dirty South' is an absolute gem, and 'The Complete Dirty South' is an upgrade over the original version.

The Drive-By Truckers will release The Complete Dirty South on June 16, 2023, via New West Records. Originally released in 2004 to wide acclaim, The Dirty South explores the mean highways and dark hollers of what the band called the “Mythological South,” a tornado-ravaged landscape populated by bootleggers and small-time criminals, everyday folks just scraping to get by and looming icons like Sam Phillips, John Henry, and Sheriff Buford Pusser.

If you are a Jason Isbell fan, then you are definitely familiar with his solo records, as well as his music with his band The 400 Unit. However, you might be less familiar with the music of the Drive-By Truckers, the band that Jason began his career with. The Athens, Georgia, based band began as a southern rock and alt-country outfit, but have become a genre-bending staple not only in the South, but across the country. The band’s origins date back to when two northern Alabama natives, Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, met as roommates at the University of North Alabama, but the Drive-By Tru...

by Steve Newton on December 23rd, 2020 at 3:00 PM 1 of 5 2 of 5 Looking back on 2020, the year of COVID-19, the worst thing about it was obviously the loss of life. While I'm writing this the worldwide death toll is 1,663,097. While you're reading it it's undoubtedly much, much higher. Don't bother checking. It's too depressing. Then there's the whole economic catastrophe that the pandemic has caused. Billions and billions of dollars lost. Maybe trillions. Countless businesses destroyed and jobs lost. All in all, not a lotta fun on the financial front. Somehow, though, by the grace of go...