Southern Rock Opera - Drive-By Truckers
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  1. Dec 14, 2011
    90
    One of funniest, smartest, truest, saddest and flat-out rockingest (in the very best way) albums I've heard in a very long time.
  2. Dec 14, 2011
    80
    Sure the whole Southern Rock Opera concept is a bit over-the-top, and a two-disc set will always contain its fair share of duds, but the Drive-By Truckers have succeeded in making an album that is as good a historical reference as it is for air-guitar.
  3. Dec 14, 2011
    80
    Southern Rock Opera is a complex work, a cohesive text that functions as a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story; as an exploration of cultural issues that have defined the South; as an autobiography of the Drive-by Truckers; and as a reclaiming of Lynyrd Skynyrd's legend and music.
  4. Dec 16, 2011
    70
    "Southern Rock Opera" is the kind of record most bands don't have in them.

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