American band

""American Band" is Drive-By Truckers' eleventh record and, while it couldn't be by any other band, in many ways, it's an outlier. Wes Freed's recognisable Southern gonzo paintings which usually grace their album sleeves have been replaced by a muted photograph of the Stars and Stripes flying at half-mast. Indeed, everything about "American Band" is stark and solemn, its brevity being much needed in a year where the band's home country seems to need its bullshit filter replaced on a weekly basis. "American Flag" is a monochrome "Nebraska" in a discography of technicolor "Born to Run"s".

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"Drive-By Truckers picked a nice time to come up with one of their sharpest assessments yet of what co-leader Patterson Hood once called "the Southern Thing." American Band is a Southern liberal's attempt to puzzle through the emulsified white working class alienation and resentment that's been endlessly cited as a force driving the rise of Donald Trump".

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