Drive-By Truckers
It's Great To Be Alive!
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records
Drive-By Truckers
It's Great To Be Alive!
Sealed 2015 5LP 3CD Limited Edition Boxset. Limited To 2500 Worldwide. "One Of The Reasons The Drive-by Truckers Have Matured Into One Of America's Finest Rock & Roll Bands Is Ambition; They're Solid Players And Write Great Songs, But Just As Important, They Take Storytelling Seriously, And When They Make An Album, They Strive To Do More Than Just Serve Up A Bunch Of New Songs. Most Dbt Releases Aren't Specifically Concept Albums, But Nearly All Of Them Have A Thematic Consistency In Which The Individual Songs Cohere Into A Larger Framework. With This In Mind, It Makes Sense That The Band Would Want To Do Something More Elaborate Than The Run-of-the-mill Live Disc, And 2015's It's Great To Be Alive!, Recorded During A Three-night Stand At The The Fillmore Auditorium In San Francisco, California In The Fall Of 2014, Is An Oversized (Over Three Hours On Three Cds Or Five Lps) Look At The Band's Body Of Work So Far, With A Set List That Reaches Back Before The Beginning ("Runaway Train" Was A Tune Patterson Hood And Mike Cooley Cut For Their Pre-dbt Band Adam's House Cat) All The Way Up To English Oceans, The Album The Group Released Just A Few Months Before These Shows. The Drive-by Truckers Have Always Prided Themselves On A Butt-kicking Live Show, So It's A Bit Of A Surprise That It's Great To Be Alive! Relies So Strongly On Dynamics, Dialing Back The Tempo And Impact Of Some Of The Tunes Rather Than Making This Set The Full-on Blowout Some Fans Would Expect. It's Great To Be Alive! Focuses Less On The Sweat And Fire Of A Live Gig Than On The Songs, As Hood And Cooley Draw Their Portraits Of Folks Trying To Make The Best Of Life's Situations, Which Is Often A Harder And More Desperate Task Than One Would Imagine. The Relatively Subdued Attack Does Make More Room For Cooley And Hood's Vocals, And Both Are In Strong Voice Here, And If These Performances Are Often A Bit Less Finely Nuanced Than The Studio Originals, Nearly Everything Here Sounds More Passionate, And The Musicianship Is Excellent, Especially Cooley And Hood's Dueling Guitar Work, Jay Gonzalez's Keyboards, And Brad Morgan's Drumming, Which Is Endlessly Implacable And Full Of Lean, Thoughtful Groove (If This Band Has A Secret Weapon, It's Morgan). If It's Great To Be Alive! Doesn't Rock With The Usual Fury Of A Drive-by Truckers Live Set, The Band Knows When And Where To Kick Out The Jams (Especially On The Three Uptempo Southern Rock Opera Numbers On Disc Three), And This 198-minute Marathon Leaves No Doubt That This Constantly Evolving Band Is Still Growing And Shifting And Putting New Perspectives On Its Music. It's Great To Be Alive! Is A Bit Less Than The Definitive Document Of The Live Dbt Experience, But If You Want To Know Why This Is A Great Band And How Good It Can Be On-stage, This Set Will Tell You Just About Everything You Need To Know." AMG Review By Mark Deming.
$95.00
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Artist: Drive-By Truckers
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Genre: Rock
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Type: Box Set - New
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Label: ATO Records
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Catalog ID: ATO0282
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Condition:
Vinyl:Mint (M)Sleeve:Near Mint (NM or M-) -
Country ID: USA
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SKU: 164809
Track List
A1 | Lookout Mountain | |
A2 | Where the Devil Don't Stay | |
A3 | Sink Hole | |
A4 | First Air of Autumn | |
B1 | Made Up English Oceans | |
B2 | The Righteous Path | |
B3 | Women Without Whiskey | |
B4 | Mercy Buckets | |
C1 | The Living Bubba | |
C2 | Primer Coat | |
C3 | Tornadoes | |
C4 | Sounds Better In the Song | |
CD1-1 | Lookout Mountain | |
CD1-10 | Marry Me | |
CD1-11 | Tornadoes | |
CD1-12 | Sounds Better In The Song | |
CD1-2 | Where The Devil Don't Stay | |
CD1-3 | Sink Hole | |
CD1-4 | Made Up English Oceans | |
CD1-5 | The Righteous Path | |
CD1-6 | Women Without Whiskey | |
CD1-7 | The Living Bubba | |
CD1-8 | Primer Coat | |
CD1-9 | Mercy Buckets | |
CD2-1 | Used To Be A Cop | |
CD2-10 | When The Pin Hits The Shell | |
CD2-11 | A World Of Hurt | |
CD2-2 | Shit Shots Count | |
CD2-3 | Runaway Train | |
CD2-4 | A Ghost To Most | |
CD2-5 | Goode's Field Road | |
CD2-6 | Uncle Frank | |
CD2-7 | Putting People On The Moon | |
CD2-8 | First Air Of Autumn | |
CD2-9 | Box Of Spiders | |
CD3-1 | Get Downtown | |
CD3-10 | Angels And Fuselage | |
CD3-11 | Zip City | |
CD3-12 | Grand Canyon | |
CD3-2 | Ronnie And Neil | |
CD3-3 | Gravity's Gone | |
CD3-4 | Pauline Hawkins | |
CD3-5 | Birthday Boy | |
CD3-6 | Girls Who Smoke | |
CD3-7 | Three Dimes Down | |
CD3-8 | Hell No, I Ain't Happy | |
CD3-9 | Shut Up And Get On The Plane | |
D1 | Used To Be a Cop | |
D2 | Shit Shots Count | |
D3 | Runaway Train | |
D4 | A Ghost To Most | |
E1 | Goode's Field Road | |
E2 | Uncle Frank | |
E3 | Putting People On the Moon | |
F1 | Box Of Spiders | |
F2 | When the Pin Hits the Shell | |
F3 | A World Of Hurt | |
G1 | Gravity's Gone | |
G2 | Pauline Hawkins | |
G3 | Birthday Boy | |
G4 | Girls Who Smoke | |
H1 | Get Downtown | |
H2 | Ronnie And Neil | |
H3 | Three Dimes Down | |
H4 | Hell No, I Ain't Happy | |
I1 | Marry Me | |
I2 | Shut Up And Get On The Plane | |
I3 | Angels and Fuselage | |
J1 | Zip City | |
J2 | Grand Canyon |
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