The Dirty South is the sixth album by Muscle Shoals, Alabama-based Drive-By Truckers. While previous Southern rock bands have celebrated certain regional mythologies, this quintet revels in the towering glory of small, gritty realities. They can kick up a righteous storm, as on the country lick-filled opener "Where the Devil Don't Stay," or the swamp and fuzzy "Lookout Mountain." However, within the latter is a daunting verse: "If I throw myself off Lookout Mountain, No more for my soul to keep, I wonder who will drive my car, I wonder if my Mom will weep." It's clear these guys deliver emotional wallops at every turn. "Carl Perkins' Cadillac" honors the honesty of Sam Phillips, while writhing in the melancholy of changing times and circumstances. --David Greenberger

• Where The Devil Don't Stay
• Tornadoes
• The Day John Henry Died
• Putting People On The Moon
• Carl Perkins' Cadillac
• The Sands Of Iwo Jima
• Danko / Manuel
• The Boys From Alabama
• Cottonseed
• The Buford Stick
• Daddy's Cup
• Never Gonna Change
• Lookout Mountain
• Goddamn Lonely Love

• Label - New West Records
• Binding - Audio CD