Drive-By Truckers: The Mouth of the South
Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 2002
The Drive-By Truckers are hard-ass punk rockers from Alabama by way of Athens, Georgia. They drink too much. They love Lynyrd Skynyrd. And their Southern Rock Opera may be the most poetic defense of the Southern "thing" you'll ever hear.
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