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Jun 2, 2022Another complex, solid effort from the Drive-By Truckers, one of the great American bands, who are happy to keep on writing songs about trains and people who died on Welcome 2 Club XIII.
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MojoJun 2, 2022With his trademark gothic drawl, Patterson Hood limns close highway calls with perspicacity, then mourns the compatriots he's lost to foibles and vices alike. Perennially underrated Mike Cooley, meanwhile, hands in some of his sharpest-ever writing. [Jul 2022, p.86]
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Jun 2, 2022They stew in the rich absurdity of it all, and offer a collection that rings of the band’s tendency toward Southern-gothic neo-noir, but with frequent punctuations of light. [July 2022, p.32]
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Jun 7, 2022Overall, the album occurs as less incendiary than previous work (with the exception of the opening track), DBT at least temporarily setting aside their polemical blowtorches, instead mindfully venturing into vivid inventories of their own lives, choices, and karmic trajectories.
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Jun 6, 2022While Welcome 2 Club XIII has been described by the band itself as autobiographical in nature, it still manages to retain the populist appeal that drove those earlier efforts.
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Jun 3, 2022Once again, the Drive-By Truckers have made a strong album well worth your time and attention, but Welcome 2 Club XIII suggests they're having a problem embracing uncomplicated joy in 2022 -- but then again, so do most people.
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Jun 3, 2022The contents of Welcome 2 Club XIII testify that there are plenty of good miles left in the tank.
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 2, 2022For much of it they elect to look backwards, to formative times in their music story. [Jul 2022, p.82]
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Jun 5, 2022One of their best. Perfect for 2022 after two years of seclusion from Covid. The last of the great southern rock bands