Drive-By Truckers are reissuing one other album. A brand new version of 2003’s Decoration Day is out November 14 by way of New West. The Definitive Decoration Day features a remixed and remastered model of the unique album and a bunch of songs recorded dwell at Flicker Bar, in Athens, Georgia, in 2002. Under, hear to 2 variations of “Sink Gap,” the remixed and remastered observe and a recording from Flicker Bar.
The Definitive Ornament Day is being launched digitally and in a 4xLP field set. David Barbe, who produced the unique album, did the brand new remix, and Greg Calbi remastered it. The bodily assortment features a 40-page, full-color ebook with images, art work, and a brand new essay by longtime Pitchfork contributor Stephen M. Deusner.
In a press launch, Patterson Hood mentioned the band’s Flicker Bar present that’s now captured on The Definitive Ornament Day. “We determined that it could be enjoyable to go play an acoustic late-night present on the tiny Flicker Bar, lower than a block away from our beloved 40 Watt Membership,” he stated. “We ended up taking part in a set that included all however one music off of our new, however nonetheless unfinished album. I didn’t even know till not too long ago that there was an current tape of the present. It is a stunning doc of our band at a really essential and joyous second in time. I’m so blissful that it exists.”
Ornament Day was the follow-up to Drive-By Truckers’ acclaimed third album, Southern Rock Opera, and it was the band’s first with Jason Isbell. “The legacy of the band has undoubtedly grown,” Isbell mirrored in an announcement, “and there’s a brand new appreciation for the Truckers and particularly for that period of Ornament Day. With out them, you wouldn’t have the form of work being performed by MJ Lenderman and Wednesday and Waxahatchee and a bunch of different acts. I can hear the Truckers in all that music.”
In 2023, Drive-By Truckers reissued 2004’s The Dirty South as The Complete Dirty South. Then, final yr, they shared a new deluxe edition of Southern Rock Opera.
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The Definitive Ornament Day:
01 The Deeper In (Remixed / Remastered)
02 Sink Gap (Remixed / Remastered)
03 Hell No, I Ain’t Blissful (Remixed / Remastered)
04 Marry Me (Remixed / Remastered)
05 My Candy Annette (Remixed / Remastered)
06 Outfit (Remixed / Remastered)
07 Heathens (Remixed / Remastered)
08 Sounds Higher within the Tune (Remixed / Remastered)
09 (One thing’s Obtained To) Give Fairly Quickly (Remixed / Remastered)
10 Your Daddy Hates Me (Remixed / Remastered)
11 Careless (Remixed / Remastered)
12 When the Pin Hits the Shell (Remixed / Remastered)
13 Do It Your self (Remixed / Remastered)
14 Ornament Day (Remixed / Remastered)
15 Loaded Gun within the Closet (Remixed / Remastered)
