Playing Hurt: The Drive-By Truckers Wrestle With Loss and Acceptance on Their Darkest Album Yet
Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 26 June 2006
NOVELIST/CRITIC George Pelecanos has called them "the American band of the decade". Amazon.com extended it to "the greatest band in the world". Blender said they were "the best country-rock band in America". National Review offered "the best unheralded band in popular music today". The Minneapolis Star Tribune awarded them the title of "the band of our day". The Washington Post went for simply "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band".
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