Drive-By Truckers 13th studio album, THE NEW OK arrives mere months after the release of the bands highly acclaimed THE UNRAVELING. Originally conceived as a quarantine EP collecting material recorded in Memphis during sessions for THE UNRAVELING, the project quickly grew to include provocative new songs written and recorded over what Drive-By Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood calls this endless summer of protests, riots, political shenanigans and pandemic horrors. Tracks such as Hoods Watching The Orange Clouds inspired by the protests which followed George Floyds murder by Minneapolis police and a fiery cover of The Ramones classic The KKK Took My Baby Away (vocals by bassist Matt Patton) were exchanged between Hood, co-founding singer/songwriter/guitarist Mike Cooley, bassist Patton, keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Jay Gonzalez, and drummer Brad Morgan and then mixed by longtime DBT producer David Barbe. The result, says Hood, is a full album that hopefully balances out the darkness of our current situation with a hope for better days and nights ahead.
To call these past few months trying would be a dramatic understatement, Hood continues. Our lives are intertwined with our work in ways that give us our best songs and performances. It is a life that has often rewarded us beyond our wildest dreams. Speaking for myself, I dont have hobbies, I have this thing I do. To be sidelined with a brand new album and have to sit idly while so much that I love and hold dear falls apart before my very eyes has been intense, heartbreaking, anger provoking and very depressing. It has gone to the very heart of our livelihoods and threatened near everything that we have spent our lives trying to build. Heres to the hope that we can make 2021 a better year than this one has been. In the meantime, heres to THE NEW OK!

TRACKLIST:
The New OK
Tough To Let Go
The Unraveling
The Perilous Night
Sarahs Flame
Sea Island Lonely
The Distance
Watching The Orange Clouds
The KKK Took My Baby Away

A1	The New OK
A2	Tough To Let Go
A3	The Unraveling
A4	The Perilous Night
A5	Sarah's Flame
B1	Sea Island Lonely
B2	The Distance
B3	Watching The Orange Clouds
B4	The KKK Took My Baby Away

Status	In Stock
Delivery	Arrives Fri Dec 5 to Wed Dec 10

The New Ok LP (Vinyl)

The New Ok LP (Vinyl)

Tracklist

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