Drive By Truckers documentary

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Awesome...give us a full review tomorrow.

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Very excited to see the inner workings of the greatest Southern rock band since Skynyrd.

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Easily better than Skynard IMO.

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The highlight of the film is Cooley explaining that Space City is a song he wrote the day after his grandmother died, from his granddad's point of view. He plays the song, and afterwards, the camera lingers, waiting for him to speak. He says nothing because... well, why would he? Everything he wanted to say was in that song. It was really a powerful moment. Not a dry eye in the house.

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Amazing song. Mike Cooley is a genius, and I mean that. Panties in Your Purse FTW.

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It's sort of like, "yes, we were awesome then, what is there to say?"

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If you are a fan... go see it.

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Doubt it's playing at the Cinema IV in Crowley.

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Which albums are their best? I only have a few.

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I shamefully bit-torrented them four or five years ago, so I've only bought their last 3 and don't have a clear idea of which songs are on which albums before A Blessing and a Curse.

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How is Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit?

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I really like both of his albums. He is more hit and miss than DBT, IMO, but when he's on he's really on.

I think if you could only get three albums by the Truckers, you should get the trifecta of Southern Rock Opera, The Dirty South, and Decoration Day. All released in a row, all pretty damn brilliant.

Though, personally, if you want post-Isbell, Brighter Than Creations Dark is the best since he left. That album should be the soundtrack to someone's suicide.

Isbell is hit and miss, but when he hits, he's awesome. His best songs are really, REALLY good. Hood just is so prolific. He's great, but he's definitely a guy that has too many ideas. Cooley, I think, is their best songwriter. You get the idea he only writes about 1 song a month or so, but once he's written it, it is perfect. Cooley has the inate ability to see other people's point of view, and his best songs tend to be from someone else's perspective (Zip City, Space City, Cottonseed, When the Pin Hits the Shell, Guitar Man Upstairs.. okay, Women Without Whiskey is all him).

Man, you could make a song out of most of the DBT's songs. Hell, SRO was originally a screenplay before turned into an album. I think Decoration Day should be a movie as well (the song). Or Puttin People On the Moon.

But Cooley has so many good lines which sum up the central character...

"Somehwere I ain't sayin, there's a hole that holds a judge. Once his honor grows a conscience. Well, that just ain't no good."

"Bloody nose. Empty pockets. Rented car with a trunk full of guns. Checkout time is sunrise in Las Vegas, but it only happens once."

"Uncle Frank never learned to read or write. So there was no letter or note found when he died. Just a noose around his neck and a kitchen table kicked on its side."

"Here I am again. Perfect timing. The strings are ringing and the words are rhyming. I used to hate the fool in me, but only in the morning, but now I tolerate him all day long."

"Somehwere beyond that big bright light is where my heart has gone. Somewhere she's wondering what's taking me so long."

"You say you're tired of me taking you for granted, waiting up to the last minute to call you up and see what you want to do. Well, you're only 15 years old girl and you ain't got no secretary and "for granted" is an mighty big word for a country girl like you."

He can tell a whole story in 15 seconds. Just from those lines, you know that whole person's story. And probably my favorite Cooley line, which is probably autobiographical about his own wife, putting himself in the worst possible light:

"I might as well as slipped that ring on your finger from the window of a van as it pulled away. Now she's found herself and I lost mine and now I'm just another guy who can't give her anything."

You left out the best part:
Space City's one hour up the road from here...that's one hour away from as close to the moon as anybody down here's ever gonna be and

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"Somehwere beyond that big bright light is where my heart has gone. Somewhere she's wondering what's taking me so long."

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"You say you're tired of me taking you for granted, waiting up to the last minute to call you up and see what you want to do. Well, you're only 15 years old girl and you ain't got no secretary and "for granted" is an mighty big word for a country girl like you."

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What is the DBT song where in the end Cooley kind of ends it talking about a car, the engine in the car, etc...? Thanks

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