Southern Rock Opera

by Drive-By Truckers

Southern Rock Opera cover art

This sprawling, ambitious double album conceptually explores the complex, contradictory cultural history of the American South through the tragic, thinly veiled lens of Lynyrd Skynyrd's career. The band employs a massive, three-guitar attack to deliver gritty, whiskey-soaked country rock that is deeply sympathetic yet highly critical of Southern mythology. The storytelling masterfully addresses racism, working-class struggle, and the 'duality of the Southern thing'.

Genres

  • Southern Rock

Tracklist

  1. Days Of Graduation
  2. Ronnie And Neil
  3. 72 (This Highway's Mean)
  4. Dead, Drunk And Naked
  5. Guitar Man Upstairs
  6. Birmingham
  7. The Southern Thing
  8. Three Great Alabama Icons
  9. Wallace
  10. Zip City
  11. Moved
  12. Let There Be Rock
  13. Road Cases
  14. Women Without Whiskey
  15. Plastic Flowers On The Highway
  16. Cassie's Brother
  17. Life In The Factory
  18. Shut Up And Get On The Plane
  19. Greenville To Baton Rouge
  20. Angels And Fuselage