A.V. Club: Best of the Decade

Artist Drive-By Truckers

With last year’s masterful Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, Drive-By Truckers resumed a run of great albums many fans felt was broken with 2006’s A Blessing And A Curse, the band’s final record with singer-songwriter-guitarist Jason Isbell. While A Blessing was marred by the band’s in-fighting and stress over financial problems, Brighter found Drive-By Truckers in a better place personally and creatively, going on to be one of their best-selling and most critically acclaimed efforts. The band kept busy this year, backing soul legend Booker T. on record as well as at Bonnaroo, while also releasing a live CD/DVD, a rarities disc, and prepping songs for its eighth studio album, due next year.

Updated 10/20/2009

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