Vandaag is een geweldig muziekdocument verschenen op vinyl. Het is van de Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera Deluxe Edition op Vinyl 3 LP-Album Set.
Wat eerst uit was gekomen op hun eigen Soul Dump en daarna snel opgepikt door Lost Highway Records. Daarna door gedropt en opgepikt door New West Records.

Drive-By Truckers
Southern Rock Opera
Vinyl Deluxe Edition – 3-LP
Deluxe Remixed, Resequenced, and Remastered Edition + Book

New West / V2 BeNeLux
26 juli 2024

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De Drive-By Truckers brachten in 2001 hun monumentale dubbel-album Southern Rock Opera uit. Twintig nummers, diep geworteld in het leven en de tradities van het Amerikaanse Zuiden. Een van die nummers werd onmiddellijk een klassieker: Ronnie And Neil beschreef de vriendschap, na een valse start, tussen Lynyrd Skynyrd-zanger Ronnie Van Zant en Neil Young, die in Southern Man en Alabama nogal los was gegaan op het Zuiden. Uiteindelijk was Young een van de mensen die de doodskist van Van Zant droeg. Het hele verhaal wordt op ijzingwekkende wijze verteld in Ronnie And Neil, een van de tien beste liedjes ooit gemaakt. Alles op Southern Rock Opera klopt, de DBT zijn in topvorm. En dus is het logisch dat er 23 jaar later een Deluxe Edition van dat album verschijnt op drie LP’s, met een net wat andere volgorde, wat nieuwe nummers plus live-opnames. Voor wie het vergeten was, is hier het bewijs: Southern Rock Opera is een van de grote platen van de 21ste eeuw.

Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera Deluxe Edition (albumcover photo)

Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera Deluxe Vinyl Edition!

140-gram 3LP deluxe edition reissue

Rigid slipcase

Gatefold double LP plus 1LP in jacket

28-page book with spot gloss throughout

Red foil stamping on slipcase

Southern Rock Opera is the third studio album by the American rock band Drive-By Truckers, released in 2001. Originally released as a double album covering an ambitious range of subject matter from the politics of race to 1970s stadium rock, Southern Rock Opera either imagines, or filters, every topic through the context of legendary Southern band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

New West Records is proud to present a remixed and remastered deluxe edition LP featuring a resequenced record as well as a third disc with multiple bonus tracks including a song — “Mystery Song” — that was recorded one night in Birmingham. Lead Singer, Patterson Hood, explains, “”Birmingham” and “Moved” were originally part of Act I on the original CD release. This is the first vinyl version to feature “Moved” and we felt that “Birmingham” would be the best other song to move without messing up the story element of Betamax Guillotine. We moved them here to keep the vinyl sides within time of maximum high fidelity. (Under 23 minutes per mastering guidelines).

“In the process of re-mixing the original tracks for the album, we stumbled upon a mysterious track that was recorded late one night in Birmingham. None of us have any memory whatsoever of recording it. The song itself was never even written down, just made up on the spot while the tape was rolling. We’re calling it “Mystery Song.” It’s actually a keeper.”

This 3-disc deluxe edition comes packed in a foil-stamped rigid slipcase with the original album packaged as a 2LP set in gatefold. The 3rd LP is packaged in a separate jacket. Each record comes with a 28-page book that is given the spot gloss treatment throughout.

Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera Deluxe Edition (boxset photo)

Side A
1. Days Of Graduation
2. Ronnie And Neil
3. 72 (This Highway’s Mean)
4. Dead, Drunk And Naked
5. Guitar Man Upstairs

Side B
1. Birmingham
2. The Southern Thing
3. Three Great Alabama Icons
4. Wallace
5. Zip City
6. Moved

Side C
1. Let There Be Rock
2. Road Cases
3. Women Without Whiskey
4. Plastic Flowers On The Highway
5. Cassie’s Brother

Side D
1. Life In The Factory
2. Shut Up And Get On The Plane
3. Greenville To Baton Rouge
4. Angels And Fuselage

Side E
1. Birmingham
2. Mystery Song
3. Moved

Side F
1. Don’t Cockblock the Rock (live)
2. Zip City (live)
3. Road Cases (live)
4. 72 (This Highway’s Mean) (live)


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