http://www.drivebytruckers.com/discography.html no release dates yet ... you'd think marketing 101 tells you to have a release date when you announce something like this, right?
from hood:
Generally, once an album comes out, I hardly ever hear it again.
Occasionally I might hear it playing somewhere (sometimes a cringe-inducing experience).
We, of course play songs, but they take on a whole different life LIVE and it's not like I sit around the house listening to my band.
New West has finally come around to our way of thinking in terms of putting our albums out on vinyl.
For those of you firmly entrenched in the digital age, pull that turntable off the top dusty shelf of that closet or go find one used at that downtown record shop that you used to frequent before they built the megabox store in the burbs with all the latest releases and digital cameras. Dust off that vinyl and listen to ROCK in the way that The
Devil intended.
Nice and warm with occasional crackles. Bass in a frequency that human ears can actually relate to.
Treble that defines without piercing the eardrums (even at DBT caliber volumes).
AHHHHHH YEAH. That's what I'm talking about.
I digressed, but what I'm leading up to is I had to approve each and every one of the vinyl reissues to insure MAXIMUM ROCK and minimum bullshit.
Therefore, I sat in my office, rolled a fatty (whatever that may be) and listened to our catalog.
ON VINYL.
The way The Devil intended.
I took the following notes, which I will now share with you:
