Drive-By Truckers "Southern Rock Opera"
Pretty much what it says on the tin. A rock opera utilising and
talking about Southern Rock, with special focus given to Lynyrd Skynyrd
and Neil Young, and very much (musically) in their style.
From what I've read, the story is supposed to chart the progress of a
group of youngsters from their Southern upbringing longing after fame
and fortune, to finally getting what they want but with all the eventual pitfalls
of fame.
I would say that I enjoyed one or two of the sounds on here,
particularly on the second disc which has lots of nice guitar harmony
bits going on and there is solid riffage throughout. "Angels and Fuselage" is a yearning epic rock ballad in the vein of Skynyrd's best.
The problem then is the 90-minute runtime. I didn't really pay much
attention to the 'narrative' and there's not enough variety to maintain
interest across that duration of music (for my tastes anyway). As is
the case with many double albums, I feel that this could have been shorn
down to an arresting single album.
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