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As the great Gram Parsons once said to us: "There is no boundary between 'types of music'. I see two types of sounds, good ones and bad ones." Well, what we've got here is a damn good one by the Athens-based Drive-By Truckers. 'Alabama Ass Whuppin'' is subtitled "Live and Loud way down in Georgia 1999", and you can bet your Alabama ass that this is live and goddamn loud!
If you already know them, you probably already love them. And for those who have never heard of this great band, it's never too late to get on this truck. First of all, the playing of the Drive-By Truckers is superb, raw as raw can be, and also very tight. 'Alabama Ass Whuppin' is a live compilation. While most live recordings range from less essential to absolute crap, 'Alabama Ass Whuppin'' is the Drive-By Truckers' best release so far. However, there is no substitute for the real excitement of playing live, but it is surely one of the more essential live albums. It's that kind of live album where you can actually smell the sweat of the band members and crowd. It simply rocks!
Here is a record not to be missed if you are looking for some noisy, yet melodic redneck blues. What you'll get is more than 70 minutes of great live music with some very nice surprises as well. This record kicks off with a slowly rising wall of guitars, and then it climaxes with 'Lookout Mountain'. At times it sounds like Neil Young is playing right alongside them. There are so many highlights to note about this release.
One of these highlights and most emotional moments here is a song called 'The Living Bubba', a deeply moving tune sang in tribute to a friend, musician, and founder of the Bubbapalooza festival. This beautiful homage to Greg Smalley ends with the words sang: "I can't die now, because I've got another show to do." It ain't over yet with 'The Living Bubba', because with songs like 'Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)' and 'Don't Be in Love Around Me', the band breaks into more than seven minutes of true redneck blues with the storytelling '18 Wheels of Love'. It's probably a good example of what we can expect from their forthcoming album 'Betamax Guillotine', Which should become a redneck opera to pay tribute to Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd. They finally continue their spoken word on 'Alabama Ass Whuppin'' with a jazzy piece called 'The Avon Lady', a song that reminds me of the early Tom Waits before he turned insane with 'Swordfishtrombones'. The tenth song on 'Alabama Ass Whuppin' is the exciting 'Steve McQueen', which the Drive-By Truckers provide with a little portion of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Gimme Three Steps', and it nicely goes into the classic song by the Jim Carroll Band, 'People Who Died'.
I know it's hard to believe for a live recording, but every song here is an instant classic. According to the liner notes, the last song on the album is beautiful in the same way as an English bulldog is. You can say the same thing for the band. Sweet like a glass of Jack on the rocks, and that surely ain't no lie, because with 'Love Like This', the Drive-By Truckers end this superb album in style. Probably the only thing better than this album is to see and hear the superior Drive-By Truckers play live. I'm already on my way to get some tickets. You can't go wrong with them.
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