Pizza Deliverance
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Pizza Deliverance PRODUCERS: Earl Hicks, Drive-By Truckers New West 6069 RELEASE DATE: Jan. 25
Drive-By Truckers built their legend one busted guitar string and shredded vocal chord at a time. No band has understood the Southern white trash pathos better than the Truckers and their iconoclastic frontman Patterson Hood. Before the band moved on to an arena-rock sound and weightier topics like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Buford Pusser, the Truckers released the previously hard-to-find "Pizza Deliverance," a work of twisted brilliance that balances and blends graveyard humor and insightful eloquence. Among the topics are incest, murder, hard drinking, wife swapping, regret, dope, Jesus, Bill Clinton and punk rocker G.G. Allin. It's a collection of fatalistic and often strangely moving hard-luck songs. The musicianship-built on a country foundation--is better than some of the band's albums, including the lesser companion reissue "Gangstabilly." Profound and profane highlights are many, including "Bulldozers and Dirt," "Nine Bullets," "Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)" and "Love Like This." To the group's faithful, this is a holy grail and righteous stuff.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jim Bessman, Keith Caulfield, Leila Cobo, Deborah Evans Price, Rashaun Hall, Katie Hasty, Todd Martens, Gail Mitchell, Chuck Taylor, Brian Teitelman, Christa L. Titus, Anastacia Tsioulcas, Phillip van Vleck, Ray Waddell, Christopher Walsh. ESSENTIALS: Releases deemed by the review editors to deserve special attention on the basis of musical merit and/or Billboard chart potential. VITAL REISSUES: Rereleased albums of special artistic, archival and commercial interest and outstanding collections of works by one or more artists. PICKS (**): New releases predicted to hit the top half of the chart in the corresponding format. CRITICS' CHOICES (*): New releases, regardless of chart potential, highly recommended because of their musical merit. All albums commercially available in the United States are eligible. Send album review copies and singles review copies to Michael Paoletta (Billboard, 770 Broadway, 6th floor. New York, N.Y. 10003) or to the writers in the appropriate bureaus.
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By R.W.
Edited by Michael Paoletta
Copyright of Billboard is the property of VNU eMedia, Inc..
Drive-By Truckers built their legend one busted guitar string and shredded vocal chord at a time. No band has understood the Southern white trash pathos better than the Truckers and their iconoclastic frontman Patterson Hood. Before the band moved on to an arena-rock sound and weightier topics like Lynyrd Skynyrd and Buford Pusser, the Truckers released the previously hard-to-find "Pizza Deliverance," a work of twisted brilliance that balances and blends graveyard humor and insightful eloquence. Among the topics are incest, murder, hard drinking, wife swapping, regret, dope, Jesus, Bill Clinton and punk rocker G.G. Allin. It's a collection of fatalistic and often strangely moving hard-luck songs. The musicianship-built on a country foundation--is better than some of the band's albums, including the lesser companion reissue "Gangstabilly." Profound and profane highlights are many, including "Bulldozers and Dirt," "Nine Bullets," "Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)" and "Love Like This." To the group's faithful, this is a holy grail and righteous stuff.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jim Bessman, Keith Caulfield, Leila Cobo, Deborah Evans Price, Rashaun Hall, Katie Hasty, Todd Martens, Gail Mitchell, Chuck Taylor, Brian Teitelman, Christa L. Titus, Anastacia Tsioulcas, Phillip van Vleck, Ray Waddell, Christopher Walsh. ESSENTIALS: Releases deemed by the review editors to deserve special attention on the basis of musical merit and/or Billboard chart potential. VITAL REISSUES: Rereleased albums of special artistic, archival and commercial interest and outstanding collections of works by one or more artists. PICKS (**): New releases predicted to hit the top half of the chart in the corresponding format. CRITICS' CHOICES (*): New releases, regardless of chart potential, highly recommended because of their musical merit. All albums commercially available in the United States are eligible. Send album review copies and singles review copies to Michael Paoletta (Billboard, 770 Broadway, 6th floor. New York, N.Y. 10003) or to the writers in the appropriate bureaus.
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By R.W.
Edited by Michael Paoletta
Copyright of Billboard is the property of VNU eMedia, Inc..
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