My brother once asked, skeptically, why the Drive-By Truckers weren't just another Kings of Leon. I can see the misunderstanding: the twang of the guitars, the Southern-inflected vocals. But Drive-By Truckers are much better songwriters, have a much darker and diversified sound, and don't have a ubiquitous "Use Somebody" clogging the radio.
That said, The Big To-Do is there most lackluster album since I first got into 2004's impressive Decoration Day. "Birthday Boy" is a clever glimpse into the world of rural stripper-dom ("Pretty girls from the smallest towns/Get remembered like storms and droughts"), but "This Fucking Job" and "Drag the Lake Charlie" are pretty straightforward numbers from this normally more creative outfit.
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