Drive-By Truckers will launch a reissue of their basic 2004 album, The Dirty South.
The Complete Dirty South will arrive on June 16 re-sequenced and expanded to current the band’s initially proposed 17-song observe itemizing. The assortment consists of three bonus tracks that have been left off the unique album, plus 4 remixed songs, two of which function newly up to date vocals.
The remastered set additionally consists of a 32-page guide with unique and new liner notes written by the band’s Patterson Hood, track-by-track descriptions of the songs by singers, songwriters and guitarists Hood, Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell, and never-before-seen images and up to date art work by Wes Freed.
Ahead of the discharge, a remixed and remastered model of “Puttin’ People on the Moon” that includes new vocals is accessible beneath.
“When we were given the opportunity to do a ‘Directors Cut’ version of what many consider to be our masterpiece, I wanted to take another stab at that vocal and nailed what I believe to be a definitive version of it in one take,” Hood defined in a press launch. “One that truly captures the inherent anger and despair of the song as written and played by the band.”
You can see the observe itemizing for the up to date Dirty South beneath.
The Complete Dirty South will likely be accessible digitally, in addition to on a double CD and a two-LP format pressed on “Reposado” shade vinyl. A restricted version “Whiskey” shade vinyl, which could be preordered now, features a lithograph autographed by band members Hood, Cooley, Isbell, Shonna Tucker and Brad Morgan.
“A lot has happened in the nearly 20 years since The Dirty South was released,” Hood famous. “All of these years later, it is still considered one of our best albums. … This version finally allows it to be heard and seen the way we had always hoped and intended.”
Drive-By Truckers, ‘The Complete Dirty South,’ Track Listing
1. “Where the Devil Don’t Stay”
2. “Tornadoes”
3. “The Day John Henry Died”
4. “Puttin’ People on the Moon” (remixed & that includes new vocals)
5. “Goode’s Field Road” (remixed)
6. “Carl Perkins’ Cadillac”
7. “TVA”
8. “The Sands of Iwo Jima” (remixed & that includes new vocals)
9. “Danko/Manuel”
10. “The Boys From Alabama”
11. “The Buford Stick”
12. “Never Gonna Change”
13. “Cottonseed”
14. “The Great Car Dealer War” (remixed)
15. “Daddy’s Cup”
16. “Lookout Mountain”
17. “Goddamn Lonely Love”
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