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Even though the production is slicker, The Dirty South is still packed with painful, well-illustrated southern gothic sagas.
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SpinBoth sucks the air out of Dixie legend and revives it. [Sep 2004, p.122]
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Class warfare meets gangsta-rock.
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The band has never sounded stronger on record as they do here.
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The Drive-By Truckers are the best, smartest, and most soulful hard rock band to emerge in a very long time.
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South undeniably positions the group as a hard-rocking roots act, and further as one of today's most assured rock bands, period.
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The Dirty South is more consistent and cohesive song-for-song, its wide scope more public than personal.
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Comparing The Dirty South to the last two Truckers’ records is like arguing over the merits of the first two Godfather movies. Either way you win.
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These are songs riddled with illiteracy, cancer, unemployment, crime and consequence, fashioned by the brutal pen of one of the most promising American songwriters of the last decade.
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A pleasure to examine at close range.
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MojoDisplay[s] a lurid intelligence that seeks to explore an alternate American history. [Oct 2004, p.102]
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UncutLyrically, it's riveting, tapping into a unique Southern storytelling tradition. [Nov 2004, p.118]
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BlenderThese rough, bitter, ruminative songs are slower, longer and wordier than those on Decoration Day. [Sep 2004, p.139]
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Although this could get tired eventually, the Truckers haven't run out of stories yet, and their acute awareness of themselves and their forebears suggests they'll know when to say when.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 36 out of 39
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Mixed: 1 out of 39
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Negative: 2 out of 39
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DaveNov 15, 2004
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BeccaJSep 3, 2004Very solid album from start to finish.
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ChaunceyJSep 2, 2004