Drive-By TruckersBest Drive-By Truckers Albums Ranked

American Band

thelineofbestfit

9.0

“Drive-By Truckers' eleventh LP is the righteous, resigned album America needs in 2016”

Ugly Buildings, Whores and Politicians

rollingstone

9.0

“"I can’t die now/ ’Cause I got another show to do," hollers Patterson Hood on "The Living Bubba"—all parched road-dog desperation and two-step twang. That the band’s de facto anthem was written about a fellow Southern rocker dying of AIDS says a lot about these unflinching realists. This compilation, like the 15-year catalog it samples, […]”

The Complete Dirty South

pitchfork

8.7

“An expanded edition of 2004’s alarm-sounding masterpiece presents the century’s greatest Southern rock band at its most powerful and its most poignant.”

The Dirty South

pitchfork

8.4

“Latest full-length from the Southern rock revival's flagship band attempts to demythologize some of the American South's best-known figures.”

Brighter Than Creation's Dark

pitchfork

8.2

“Following the departure of Jason Isbell, Drive-By Truckers' remaining primary songwriters, Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, offer a brilliant study in duality, as-- seemingly in conversation with one another-- they weigh the respective pulls of decadence and dependability.”

It's Great To Be Alive! (Deluxe) [Live]

pitchfork

8.0

“It’s Great to be Alive!, the sprawling, three-plus hour document of Drive-By Truckers’s 2014 three-night stand at San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium, is a carefully curated record that does a great job pretending to be a raw, unfettered representation of a single night.”