Drive-By Truckers: Go-Go Boots - review

(PIAS)After nine albums, it's easy enough to get a handle on Drive-By Truckers: expect songs about lives turned sour; expect music that shuffles around the Deep South, incorporating elements of country, rock and southern soul. In the album's title track (and its companion piece, The Fireside Poker), Patterson Hood paints a picture of a faithless preacher: "Every Friday he shacked up with his mistress/ Doing things he'd never do with the Mrs." On Dancin' Ricky, the unexpected simplicity and reali...

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