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Decoration Day - Drive-By Truckers
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87 out of 100

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9.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 14 Ratings

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  • Summary: The Southern rock band led by Patterson Hood follow up their 2-disc concept album about Lynyrd Skynyrd ('The Southern Rock Opera') with this less conceptual but equally rocking LP.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Mojo
    100
    Some of the songwriting is exceptional. [Dec 2003, p.114]
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  2. Spin
    100
    A raging, ragged Behind The Music--15 coal-black odes to the casualties that art leaves behind and that life can't avoid. [Aug 2003, p.111]
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  3. Village Voice (Consumer Guide)
    91
    Throughout they succeed in rendering Southern gothic as social realism.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
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  1. AndrewV
    10
    Maybe the most honest album made in the past 5 years. Pulls no punches and doesn't look down on its subject matter something very easy to do given the subject matter. Amazing, I listened to it every day for about two months.… Expand
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  2. CHaltcountrytab
    10
    best record of the year
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  3. EricR
    10
    Best rock act going today
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