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Drive-By Truckers' Southern rock opera
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Title
Drive-By Truckers' Southern rock opera / Rien Fertel.
ISBN
9781501331817 (online)
9781501331787 (paperback)
9781501331800 (electronic book)
9781501331794 (PDF)
Edition
First edition.
Publication
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 142 pages).
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Electronic reproduction. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement.
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Summary
"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Variant and related titles
Bloomsbury popular music.
Other formats
Also issued in print.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 16, 2024
Series
33 1/3
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Track listing
Acknowledgments
Act one
1. A mean old highway - U.S. Route 72
2. That muscle shoals sound - The shoals, Alabama
3. Dying before your time - Macon, Georgia
4. Hell - Birmingham, Alabama
Act two
5. Fly around the world and back - The road
6. From the swamps of Northern Florida - Jacksonville
7. Hurtling through space - Outside Gillsburg, Mississippi
8. America - Huntsville, Alabama / Oxford, Mississippi
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