Drive By Truckers - 'The Big To-Do' [320k MP3]

DRIVE BY TRUCKERS THE BIG TO-DO [320k MP3] The Big To-Do is the eighth studio album by the alternative country band Drive-By Truckers, released on March 16, 2010. It is their first album released on ATO Records, which they signed to after completing their four album deal with New West Records. The album was recorded over three blocks of sessions resulting in 25 songs, which the band decided to split between The Big To-Do and its follow up Go-Go Boot's. The Big To-Do marks the seventh Drive-By Truckers album produced by David Barbe. The addition of keyboardist Jay Gonzalez to the band's line-up further differentiates this album from its predecessors, and showcases the influence Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (specifically Benmont Tench) have had on the band. Bandmember Patterson Hood said that The Big To-Do is "very much a rock album. Very melodic and more rocking than anything since disc 2 of Southern Rock Opera." Hood also states in the album's liner notes that The Big To-Do was not written or recorded with a specific concept in mind (unlike many of the band's earlier albums). The recurring images of the circus, Hood explains, are analogous to "rock shows." While most of the Drive-By Trucker's albums have chronicled the Southern past, The Big To-Do is written entirely about the present. Hood and Cooley's respective songs "This Fucking Job" and "Get Downtown," describe from different points of view the current floundering economy (and are argued by Grant Alden to be the bands most political songs since "The Living Bubba"). Guitarist Mike Cooley commented on the development of the album, explaining that because he didn't have many songs to contribute when the band started working on the album he decided to focus on "being a player on everybody else's songs while still trying to come up with my own thing." He continued by saying that for him, the turning points in creating the album were working on the songs "You Got Another" and "The Flying Wallendas." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # "Daddy Learned to Fly" (Hood) # "The Fourth Night of My Drinking" (Hood) # "Birthday Boy" (Cooley) # "Drag the Lake Charlie" (Hood) # "The Wig He Made Her Wear" (Hood) # "You Got Another" (Tucker) # "This Fucking Job" (Hood) # "Get Downtown" (Cooley) # "After the Scene Dies" (Hood) # "(It's Gonna Be) I Told You So" (Tucker) # "Santa Fe" (Hood) # "The Flying Wallendas" (Hood) # "Eyes Like Glue" (Cooley) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Patterson Hood - guitar, vocals * Mike Cooley - guitar, vocals * Brad Morgan - drums * Shonna Tucker - bass, vocals * John Neff - guitar, pedal steel * Jay Gonzalez - keyboards, backing vocals * David Barbe - guitar, keyboards

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