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Drive By Truckers
Pizza Deliverance
Soul Dump Records
Released 1999
P.O. Box 667
Athens, Ga. 30603
(706) 549-5808
www.drivebytruckers.com
Download MP3 of "Nine Bullets"

It's a late Saturday night in a small southern town, and in a smoky, cramped back porch room Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen and Paul Westerberg are finishing their seventh hour of a vicious poker run. The smoke blurs the fatigue in their eyes and the bourbon's getting low while the country twang of Georgia's own Drive By Truckers serenades the souls of the drunken troubadors. Well, at least that's what I see when I put this record on. These boys will put you on that porch drinking lemonade in the daytime with Patterson Hood's 97-year old Grandma. Pizza Deliverance begins with the anthemic "Bulldozers and Dirt," a song that's as catchy as it is endearing. "Nine Bullets" is all country and balls, a song worthy of Steve McQueen's blessing, a blessing the Truckers would deem nothing short of spiritual - McQueen has served as a longtime inspiration for the Truckers. Drive by Truckers are a great band, a band that writes sincere, sweetly affecting songs about drinking, bizarre familial bonds, dysfunctional love, and yes, even the president's penis. What more could you ask for? Surrounded by guitars, banjos and mandolins and an honest country shuffle, Patterson Hood's raspy drawl gets ya from the start. Pizza Deliverance just might save you.


For fans of:
Jackpot, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan

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