event Drive-By Truckers
Also Playing: The Henry Clay People
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Tue Sep 28
8:30 pm
Drive-By Truckers and The Henry Clay People at Majestic Theatre
With 2008’s masterful Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, Drive-By Truckers resumed a run of great albums that many fans felt was broken with 2006’s A Blessing And A Curse, the band’s final record with singer-songwriter-guitarist Jason Isbell. The winning streak continues with The Big To-Do, which finds the band fortifying its considerable strengths while also making a play for a larger audience with hard-hitting, easily digestible songs like the working-class fist-pumper “This Fucking Job.” (Though the band thankfully hasn’t completely turned its back on oddball character studies, as the unsettling “The Wig He Made Her Wear” attests.) Live, the band cranks it to 11 while passing around a big jug of whiskey.
Majestic Theatre 115 King St., Madison, WI
With 2008’s masterful Brighter Than Creation’s Dark, Drive-By Truckers resumed a run of great albums that many fans felt was broken with 2006’s A Blessing And A Curse, the band’s final record with singer-songwriter-guitarist Jason Isbell. The winning streak continues with The Big To-Do, which finds the band fortifying its considerable strengths while also making a play for a larger audience with hard-hitting, easily digestible songs like the working-class fist-pumper “This Fucking Job.” (Though the band thankfully hasn’t completely turned its back on oddball character studies, as the unsettling “The Wig He Made Her Wear” attests.) Live, the band cranks it to 11 while passing around a big jug of whiskey.
Updated 01/17/2012
