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DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Release A Blessing and a Curse and Hit The Road
Drive-By Truckers by Danny Clinch |
LOS ANGELES, CA – New West will release the Drive-By Truckers' 7th album, A Blessing and a Curse, on Tuesday, April 18th. The band will then hit the road for the first leg of their tour, including a string of co-headlining dates with Son Volt.
The Drive-By Truckers are purveyors of a new kind of southern rock storytelling - dense, dark, majestic and intelligent. Featuring three absolute ace songwriters, their albums are stronger for the natural competition. One of the hardest working live bands in the business today, DBT's performances are epic and cathartic. This 7th album is their most concise to date. While in keeping with their now recognizable sound, they have made some significant changes: the songs were all freshly written with this record in mind and without a specific theme. The result is very thought out and deliberate with a decided air of sophistication (Truckers style!).
TOUR DATES
04.20 | Charlottesville, VA | Charlottesville Pavilion w/ Robert Randolph
04.28 | Dallas, TX | Gypsy Ballroom
04.29 | Austin, TX | Stubbs BBQ
04.30 | Albuquerque, NM | El Rey Theatre w/ Son Volt
05.02 | San Diego, CA | Cane's Ballroom w/ Son Volt
05.03 | Los Angeles, CA | House Of Blues w/ Son Volt
05.04 | Los Angeles, CA | House Of Blues w/ Son Volt
05.05 | San Francisco, CA | Fillmore w/ Son Volt
05.06 | San Francisco, CA | Fillmore w/ Son Volt (DBT opens)
05.08 | Portland, OR | Roseland w/ Son Volt
05.09 | Seattle, WA | Showbox Theatre w/ Son Volt
05.10 | Vancouver, BC | Commodore Ballroom
05.17 | Minneapolis, MN | First Ave Nightclub
05.18 | Milwaukee, WI | Pabst Theatre
05.19 | Chicago, IL | Vic Theatre
More tour dates to be announced soon.
What the critics are saying about the Drive-By Truckers'
A Blessing and a Curse...
"What distinguishes them from other bands is their sincerity and the unselfconscious honesty they bring to their blistering three-guitar rock."
-4 stars MOJO
"A Blessing And A Curse is perhaps a more personal and introspective record than usual. But truly there's still a lot to marvel at, especially the album's musical diversity and not least the sheer rugged resilience expressed in the songs."
-3 stars UNCUT
"Blessing qualifies as something of a sonic breakthrough for the Truckers as well. Where their first two albums were country-rock, and the four that came after them constituted a grungy update of Southern rock, Blessing is just plain rock – no modifier or hyphen."
GEORGIA MUSIC MAGAZINE
"With A Blessing and a Curse, the Drive-By Truckers prove once again that they are experts at crafting lyrically rich, heartbreaking songs, and writing believable, hard-living characters."
-5 stars PENTHOUSE
"The Drive-By Truckers have always burned towns down in song, but on A Blessing and a Curse they also sift through the ashes and rebuild. The word 'blessing' is new to their vocabulary, and it's fun as shit to listen to them figure out how to use it."
-THE FADER
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