2004 Album Reimagined as Originally Intended on Black Vinyl 2LP!
Features Resequenced Audio, 3 Additional Tracks & 4 Remixes + Updated Vocals on 2 Tracks!
Remastered by Acclaimed Engineer Greg Calbi!
In 2004 the Drive-By Truckers released what would become the best selling album in their illustrious catalog. The Dirty South is a concept album that examines the state of the South, and unveils the hypocrisy, irony, and tragedy that continues to exist.
The album features live show staples like "Tornadoes," "Where the Devil Don't Stay" and "Puttin' People on the Moon," as well as rarities like "Goode's Field Road" and "Daddy's Cup."
The Complete Dirty South is a band-led rework of the original album. Principal member Patterson Hood took the reins and reimagined this record as it was originally intended. The complete version features resequenced audio, three additional tracks, four remixes along with updated vocals.
The packaging comes with a perfect bound book featuring liner notes from Patterson Hood, track by track descriptions from Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell as well as never before seen photos along with updated artwork from the late Wes Freed.
"This 'Director's Cut' is the way it was always intended to be heard." — Patterson Hood
The album as a whole, even with the tweaking, has only improved with age. Hood, Dave Cooley and Jason Isbell's songs remain powerful and pointed, exposing the festering wounds of generations of citizens living in oft-ignored small towns in the so-called flyover states to the tune of Southern rock as thick and sweet as a slice of cornbread or slug of bourbon.
An expanded edition of 2004's alarm-sounding masterpiece presents the century's greatest Southern rock band at its most powerful and its most poignant.
Features
- Double LP
- 140g Black Vinyl
- Band-Led Rework of the Original Album, Reimagined as It Was Originally Intended
- Resequenced Audio
- 3 Additional Tracks
- 4 Remixes
- Updated Vocals on 2 Tracks
- Remastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in Edgewater, New Jersey, Fall 2022
- Rigid Slipcase
- Gatefold Sleeve
- 32-Page Perfect Bound Booklet with New Liner Notes by Patterson Hood, Never-Before-Seen Photos & Updated Art from the Late Wes Freed
- Made in Czech Republic
Selections
Side 1:
- Where the Devil Don't Stay
- Tornadoes
- The Day John Henry Died
- Puttin' People on the Moon
- Goode's Field Road
Side 2:
- Carl Perkins' Cadillac
- TVA
- The Sand of Iwo Jima
- Danko / Manuel
Side 3:
- The Boys From Alabama
- The Buford Stick
- Never Gonna Change
- Cottonseed
Side 4:
- The Great Car Dealer War
- Daddy's Cup
- Lookout Mountain
- Goddamn Lonely Love