American Band [Slipcase]

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Album: American Band [Slipcase]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ramon Casiano	More Info...	0:04
2)	Darkened Flags On the Cusp of Dawn	More Info...	0:02
3)	Surrender Under Protest	More Info...	0:04
4)	Guns of Umpqua	More Info...	0:04
5)	Filthy and Fried	More Info...	0:03
6)	When the Sun Don't Shine	More Info...	0:03
7)	Kinky Hypocrite	More Info...	0:03
8)	Ever South	More Info...	0:05
9)	What It Means	More Info...	0:06
10)	Once They Banned Imagine	More Info...	0:04
11)	Baggage	More Info...	0:05
12)	Kinky Hypocrite	More Info...
13)	Guns of Umpqua	More Info...
14)	Filthy and Fried	More Info...
15)	What It Means	More Info...
16)	Surrender Under Protest	More Info...
17)	Baggage	More Info...
18)	Ramon Casiano	More Info...
19)	Ever South	More Info...

Album: American Band [Slipcase]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Ramon Casiano	More Info...	0:04
2)	Darkened Flags On the Cusp of Dawn	More Info...	0:02
3)	Surrender Under Protest	More Info...	0:04
4)	Guns of Umpqua	More Info...	0:04
5)	Filthy and Fried	More Info...	0:03
6)	When the Sun Don't Shine	More Info...	0:03
7)	Kinky Hypocrite	More Info...	0:03
8)	Ever South	More Info...	0:05
9)	What It Means	More Info...	0:06
10)	Once They Banned Imagine	More Info...	0:04
11)	Baggage	More Info...	0:05
12)	Kinky Hypocrite	More Info...
13)	Guns of Umpqua	More Info...
14)	Filthy and Fried	More Info...
15)	What It Means	More Info...
16)	Surrender Under Protest	More Info...
17)	Baggage	More Info...
18)	Ramon Casiano	More Info...
19)	Ever South	More Info...

Performer Notes

Audio Mixer: David Barbe.
Liner Note Author: Patterson Hood.
Recording information: Chase Park Transduction, Athens, GA; Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN; The 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA.
Photographer: Danny Clinch.
From their breakthrough album (2001's Southern Rock Opera) onward, the Drive-By Truckers have never shied away from dealing with the political and philosophical divides that come with life in the American South. But as issues of race, violence, and the failings of the electoral process have come to dominate the national conversation in 2016, the Drive-By Truckers have responded with their most explicitly political album to date. American Band contains a dozen songs that deal with familiar themes for this band in some respects, but instead of pondering "the Southern Thing," these are stories that confront all sides of a great but troubled nation, as racism means not just the mixed message of the rebel flag but the unjust death of Trayvon Martin, and one tries to come to terms with the many ways our culture is slowly changing in some ways and stubbornly refusing to evolve in others. This is music full of both fury and purpose, but with rare exceptions, American Band isn't an album of anger but of puzzlement and concern. Patterson Hood's songs are thoughtful journal entries informed by his experiences as a Southern man who had left his home for the Pacific Northwest, especially "Ever South" and "What It Means." Mike Cooley, as always the Yang to Hood's Yin, writes and sings with greater grit and Southern swagger, but he delivers some of his smartest and most eloquent work to date with "Surrender Under Protest," "Ramon Casiano," and "Once They Banned Imagine," all superb studies of the flaws of human nature. And while American Band roars less than many of the band's previous works, it still sounds like the Drive-By Truckers, carried by the guitars of Hood and Cooley, Brad Morgan's superb drumming, and Jay Gonzalez's evocative keyboard work. The Drive-By Truckers are too smart to believe they have the answers for America's problems, and American Band doesn't pretend to offer them. But they ask the right sort of questions, and these songs weren't written for the audience to cheer along, but to encourage a debate that the country seriously needs. American Band is an op-ed column with guitars, and it presents a message well worth hearing, both as politics and as music. ~ Mark Deming

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hey use empathy, vivid storytelling and subtle imagery to unpack brutal complexities."

Magnet - "[A] ringing, distorted, guitar-dominated album brimming with frustration, wounded pride and stories pulled from across this great, pained land of ours."

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