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There’s a story that weaves through Drive-By Truckers’ Go-Go Boots about a preacher and his mistress that begins with the album’s title track and ends with “The Fireplace Poker,” which happens to be the instrument the preacher uses to bludgeon his wife. No one is better at crafting creepy Southern gothics like this than Truckers bandleader Patterson Hood. But what makes the band’s eleventh studio album such an overwhelming achievement is that upbeat songs like Muscle Shoals R&B legend Eddie Hinton’s “Everybody Needs Love” compliment these stories of religion and murder. Bassist Shonna Tucker also delivers perhaps her finest moment...
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