Drive-By Truckers

Add Date: March 23

Artist: Drive-By Truckers

Album: The Big To-Do

Label: ATO

Genre: Rock, alt-country

Comments: The first 15 seconds of "Daddy Learned to Fly," the opening track of The Big To-Do, the Drive-By Truckers' direction on their 10th studio album is clear: the driving guitars send Patterson Hood and co. into 54 minutes of '70s guitar rock bliss. Indeed, the band's trademark 3-guitar roar steals the show on their first record on ATO (The Whigs, My Morning Jacket), especially on killer tracks like "After the Scene Dies," "Birthday Boy," the aforementioned opener and "(It's Gonna Be) I Told You So," featuring a rare, but delightful--and, unfortunately, DNP--vocal performance from Shonna Tucker.

And yet, the Truckers have never been easy to pigeonhole; AllMusic.com compares them to Guided By Voices and Shooter Jennings--two artists that, well, aren't typically mentioned in the same sentence--and includes both Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Replacements as influences. And despite the prevalence of the electric guitars on The Big To-Do, the band still makes room for other styles. Also check out another Tucker-fronted number, the quiet folk tune "You Got Another;" the garagey "The Wig He Made Her Wear;" and the rockabilly "Get Downtown."