Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera (20th Anniversary) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 debut solo album from Rostam, who is known for his work with Vampire Weekend and produced each of their three albums. The kaleidoscopic album features fifteen songs written, produced, and performed by Rostam in his Los Angeles home studio. Rostam Batmanglij was born to Iranian refugee parents in Washington, DC, in 1983. He attended Columbia University, where he studied classical music and simultaneously focused on songwriting, recording, and production in his own time. In his last year at Columbia, he began producing the first full-length album of his career, Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut. That album would be the first of the band's three gold records with Rostam as producer. Album Tracks 1. Sumer 2. Bike Dream 3. Half-Light (Feat. Kelly Zutrau) 4. Thatch Snow 5. Wood 1. Never Going to Catch Me 2. Don't Let It Get to You 3. I Will See You Again 4. Hold You (Feat. Angel Deradoorian) 5. When 1. Rudy 2. Warning Intruders 3. Eos 4. Gwan 5. Don't Let It Get to You (Reprise)

Now signed to Lost Highway, the Truckers are re-re leasing SRO to a primed, and larger audience. Major critics have been lauding the album since it's , with features/reviews in Billboard, Magnet Pulse (4 stars), Amplifer, Village Voice (Dean's List). Album Tracks 1. Days of Graduation 2. Ronnie and Neil 3. 72 (This Highway's Mean) 4. Dead, Drunk, and Naked 5. Guitar Man Upstairs 6. Birmingham 7. Southern Thing 8. Three Great Alabama Icons 9. Wallace 10. Zip City 11. Moved 1. Let There Be Rock 2. Road Cases 3. Women Without Whiskey 4. Plastic Flowers on the Highway 5. Cassie's Brother 6. Life in the Factory 7. Shut Up and Get on the Plane 8. Greenville to Baton Rouge 9. Angels and Fuselage

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS / SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA - Southern Rock Opera is the third studio album by the American rock band Drive-By Truckers, released in 2001. Originally released as a double album covering an ambitious range of subject matter from the politics of race to 1970s stadium rock, Southern Rock Opera either imagines, or filters, every topic through the context of legendary Southern band Lynyrd Skynyrd. New West Records is proud to present a remixed and remastered deluxe edition LP featuring a re-sequenced record as well as a third disc with multiple bonus tracks including a song InchMystery SongInch that was recorded one night in Birmingham. Lead Singer, Patterson Hood explains, InchBirminghamInch and InchMovedInch were originally part of Act I on original CD . This is the first vinyl version to feature InchMovedInch and we felt that InchBirminghamInch would be the best other song to move without messing up the story element of Betamax Guillotine. We moved them here to keep the vinyl sides within time of maximum high fidelity. (Under 23 minutes per mastering guidelines). In the process of re-mixing the original tracks for the album. We stumbled upon a mysterious track that was recorded late one night in Birmingham. None of us have any memory whatsoever of recording it. The song itself was never even written down, just made up on the spot while the tape was rolling. We're calling it InchMystery Song.Inch It's actually a keeper.Inch Album Tracks 1. Days of Graduation 2. Ronnie and Neil 3. 72 (This Highway's Mean) 4. Dead, Drunk, and Naked 5. Guitar Man Upstairs 6. The Southern Thing 7. The Three Great Alabama Icons 8. Wallace 9. Zip City 1. Let There Be Rock 2. Road Cases 3. Women Without Whiskey 4. Plastic Flowers on the Highway 5. Cassie's Brother 6. Life in the Factory 7. Shut Up and Get on the Plane 8. Greenville to Baton Rou