How Big Is The Big To-Do?

The new Drive By Truckers’ album was released on March 16th and I was pretty excited about this one.  It’s a full-blown PRODUCTION kind of album.  How big is Big To-Do?  Well, that depends on whether you bought the vinyl or the CD, see?  (“Girls Who Smoke” was only released on the vinyl.) Wait, what?  Why?

I’m a big Drive By Truckers fanatic and I can never wait for the next show or the next album.  A live Trucker show is like a shot in the arm, and not in that bad way . . . The new CD is like reading a good book.  Lots of story-songs on this one.  Patterson tells smutty tales of some bad-ass characters and Cooley sings about hookers and being jobless.  You know, everyday life stuff.

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