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Feb 15, 2011A song band and proud, they turn down the boogie so we're sure to get the lyrics, which except for the two Eddie Hintons are laid out as well in a booklet so handsome the habitual downloader may want one for himself (or herself, I wish).
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Mar 1, 2011For folks new to the Truckers, intrigued but a little overwhelmed by their rather expansive catalog, this is the album to start with.
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Mar 3, 2011This ninth studio album finds long-timers Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley regaining their focus with their best set of narratives since 2006's A Blessing and a Curse.
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Mar 4, 2011The 14-track set's distinguishing characteristic is a soul flavor of the Muscle Shoals variety, a smooth fit given the role of frontman Patterson Hood's father, David Hood, in that community as well as DBT's own work with Bettye LaVette and Booker T. Jones.
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MojoApr 6, 2011Slowing down, but in no need of the hard shoulder. [March 2011, p. 97]
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Mar 30, 2011At its worst, Go-Go Boots comes off sounding like Lynyrd Skynyrd. At its best, it stands as a testament to the unparalleled songwriting of Cooley and Hood and as a reminder of just how special this band can be.
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Mar 15, 2011Take the strong songwriting, add the excellent production by David Barbe, and the tight and first rate playing, and you've got an album that truly showcases just how skilled and versatile the band is.
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Q MagazineMar 1, 2011Another slug of moonshine and a rootsy rock from the Georgia sextet. [March 2011, p. 108]
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Feb 18, 2011Go-Go Boots is one of the best examples yet of the separate yet complementary skills of the Truckers' three leaders, melding styles and switching moods but retaining an overall feel that's distinctly theirs.
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Feb 16, 2011If the music on Go-Go Boots is less physical than what the Drive-By Truckers typically deliver, it's emphatic and passionate, with an impressive sense of dynamics and as much soul as these folks have ever summoned in the studio -- they've rocked a lot harder, but they've never cut a more natural and telling groove.
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UncutFeb 15, 2011It's a rich, invigorating and mischievous affair and, for older fans, possibly their best since 2004's The Dirty South. [Mar 2011, p.87]
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Feb 14, 2011Go-Go Boots is the promised "R&B Murder Ballad Album" recorded concurrently with last year's The Big To-Do, and it's every bit as good as that description suggests.
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Feb 11, 2011After nine albums, it's easy enough to get a handle on Drive-By Truckers: expect songs about lives turned sour; expect music that shuffles around the Deep South, incorporating elements of country, rock and southern soul.
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Feb 28, 2011The Drive-By Truckers remain a distinctly American band, a band whose stories are on equal footing with the music beneath.
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Feb 18, 2011It's no reflection on him, but Go-Go Boots goes a long way to proving him wrong, suggesting a band that knows where all the bodies are buried.
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Feb 15, 2011Patterson Hood's plaintive growl couldn't suit his songs better, and Mike Cooley adds a plainspoken twang.
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Mar 22, 2011Either way, we get what we always get: the analogue rendition of a stick of Southern yarns, long on observation, short of syllable and rough as your old boots.
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Feb 17, 2011With Hood's songwriting remaining this solid and the band comfortably settling into a great groove, Go-Go Boots could have been four years in the waiting and still would not have disappointed.
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Feb 16, 2011It's a slight shift from DBT's usual muscular alt-country, but the rest is familiar: great storytelling.
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Feb 14, 2011It's yet another trip to the part of town where you really shouldn't be, in a district the Truckers call home.
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Mar 3, 2011Go-Go Boots shows a great band willing to try out new ideas and ultimately succeeding on its own terms, while The Secret to a Happy Ending illustrates how a group can nearly implode and then come together even stronger.
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Mar 28, 2011While not overwhelming or breathtaking, the slower pace and pure countrified nature of this latest release better suits the band's booze-soaked, Southern, small-town storytelling and captivates suitably for the running time.
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Under The RadarMar 23, 2011Any self-respecting DBT fan will enjoy this bluesy, grim and determined changeup. [Feb. 2011, p. 72]
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Feb 23, 2011Despite the band's place in the alternative country/Southern rock movement, this album is still full of some yarns that should have never been woven.
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Feb 14, 2011Go-Go Boots aims for a soulful, introspective vibe, but it ends up as the dullest album in the Truckers's catalogue.
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