After the lackluster outing with A Blessing and A Curse, it seemed that The Drive-By Truckers had run into a bit of a dead-end creatively. This was also driven home by the departure of Jason Isbell, one of the driving forces behind the Truckers. But with Brighter Than Creations Dark, they pulled themselves out of that funk and delivered one of their most interesting and diverse records to date. Following on that albums heels comes The Big To-Do, which finds The Drive-By Truckers favoring the leanings of their earlier records as opposed to the mid-life platitudes which were found on A Blessing and A Curse and which were thankfully mostly absent on BTCD. Songs like "Daddy Learned To Fly", "Drag The Lake Charlie", and "This Fucking Job" play with the two ends of the Truckers ideals, that the gothic and macabre can peacefully, or maybe not so peacefully, co-exist with the smart-ass countryboy personas that were the dominant characters of their first few albums. The Big To-Do shows The Drive-By Truckers growing older but losing none of their southern wit and fretwork. And I still think Patterson Hood could kick my ass.
Tracklisting:
01. Daddy Learned to Fly
02. The Fourth Night of My Drinking
03. Birthday Boy
04. Drag the Lake Charlie
05. The Wig He Made Her Wear
06. You Got Another
07. This Fucking Job (listen to the mp3 below)
08. Get Downtown
09. After the Scene Dies
10. (It's Gonna Be) I Told You So
11. Santa Fe
12. The Flying Wallendas
13. Eyes Like Glue
14. Girls Who Smoke
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