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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS THE UNRAVELING Vinyl LP NEW/SEALED
Catalog # : ATO0518LP Distributor: PIAS
Drive-By Truckers' 12th studio album and first new LP in more than three years - the longest gap between new DBT albums - The Unraveling was recorded at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis, TN by Grammy Award-winning engineer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) and longtime DBT producer David Barbe. Co-founding singer/songwriter/guitarists Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood both spent much of the time prior doing battle with deep pools of writer's block. "How do you put these day to day things we're all living through into the form of a song that we (much less anybody else) would ever want to listen to?" says Hood. "How do you write about the daily absurdities when you can't even wrap your head around them in the first place? I think our response was to focus at the core emotional level. More heart and less cerebral perhaps."
The songs that eventually emerged are among Drive-By Truckers' most direct and pointedly provocative, tackling the myriad horrors of our new normal through sincere emotion and unbridled heart. Indeed, Armageddon's Back in Town takes a whirlwind joyride through the whiplash of events we collectively deal with each day while the concluding Awaiting Resurrection dives headfirst into the despair and pain roiled up by these troubled times.
"The past three-and-a-half years were among the most tumultuous our country has ever seen," says Hood, "and the duality between the generally positive state of affairs within our band while watching so many things we care about being decimated and destroyed all around us informed the writing of this album to the core.
"While a quick glance might imply that we're picking up where 2016's American Band album left off, the differences are as telling as the similarities. If the last one was a warning shot hinting at a coming storm, this one was written in the wreckage and aftermath. I've always said that all of our records are political but I've also said that 'politics is personal.' With that in mind, this album is especially personal."   TRACKLISTING

Rosemary With A Bible And A Gun Armageddon’s Back In Town Slow Ride Argument Thoughts And Prayers 21st Century USA Heroin Again Babies In Cages Grievance Merchants Awaiting Resurrection