- Watch the Video for "Working This Job" 7:01PM May 20
- The Big To-Do charts at #22 earning DBT their highest debut ever.
9:30AM Apr 12
- Daddy Learned to Fly
- The Fourth Night of My Drinking
- Birthday Boy
- Drag the Lake Charlie
- The Wig He Made Her Wear
- You Got Another
- This Fucking Job
- Get Downtown
- After the Scene Dies
- (It’s Gonna Be) I Told You So
- Santa Fe
- The Flying Wallendas
- Eyes Like Glue
- Girls Who Smoke (Bonus track – vinyl only)
PopMatters
The good news for Drive-By Truckers fans is that their new album The Big To-Do rarely strays from what the band does best. The bad news is band’s lyrics are taking on a far greater resonance for millions who have lost their jobs and homes in the Great Recession.
On their first two albums (1998's Gangstabilly and 1999's Pizza Deliverance), the Drive-By Truckers were supreme redneck jokesters, specializing in scabrous white-trash vignettes owing more to Southern Gothic fiction (Flannery O'Connor, Barry Hannah) than any sub-Mason-Dixon stand-up hacks. As the band matured and its de facto frontman Patterson Hood started writing songs that were weightier and more universal in sentiment, however, it s more darkly off-kilter early work came to be generally viewed as juvenilia, the dicking around these guys did before they grew up into real artists. That would be a mistake, because songs like "18 Wheels of Love", "Bulldozers and Dirt", and "Zoloft" were wickedly clever and deeply revealing slices of Southern life that hold relatable truths for all listeners regardless of region. That said, it's a refreshing surprise that the group's latest album, The Big To-Do, finds Hood reconnecting with the macabre, with grim twists and booze-fueled mayhem, and with the dark corners of the American psyche.










