Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera

Name: Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781501331787
Price: 21.99 NZD
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By Dr. Rien Fertel

Series: 33 1/3

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Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera journeys through the complexities of the American South via the Drive-By Truckers' iconic album. The narrative intertwines the stories of the fictional Betamax Guillotine, a proxy for the band itself, and the legendary Lynyrd Skynyrd. Along the way, the book explores southern history's contradictions through tales of rockstar dreams, tragic crashes, and enduring ambition, capturing a vivid portrait of the region's cultural and musical landscape.
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Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera

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This book suits readers fascinated by southern rock, American cultural history, and music aficionados eager to delve deeper into the stories behind an influential album. It will appeal to those interested in exploring the South’s complex identity through a compelling rock opera lens.

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The Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera takes listeners on a road trip through the American South, with stops along mean old highways and soul-sucking swamps, iconic recording studios and doomed chartered jets, and even Heaven and Hell. Along the way, the Truckers attempt to untangle the mess that is southern history by exploring the contradictory, dualistic nature of the region.

Like twin paths intersecting and diverging before meeting again, the opera’s libretto focuses on the lives of two bands: the fictional Betamax Guillotine, a stand-in for the Truckers themselves, and Southern rock gods Lynyrd Skynyrd. Rien Fertel takes us for a ride along the Truckers’ winding road through the opera’s Southlands, a region filled with youthful rockstar aspirations, fatal crashes, the wreckage of one band gone too soon, and the ambitions of another wrestling with the great hope and tragedy that is America.