Drive-By Truckers are bringing back one of their most celebrated albums, “Decoration Day,” and it’s going to be called… “The Definitive Decoration Day”, and it’ll come out on November 14th. The 4-LP box set features the remixed and remastered 2003 classic cut at Abbey Road, the previously unreleased double album “Heathens Live at Flicker Bar, Athens, GA – June 20, 2002″, and a 40-page full-colour book filled with rare photos, artwork, along with a new essay from DBT biographer Stephen Deusner. David Barbe produced the original album and the remix, and Greg Calbi oversaw the remastering. Preorder the album here.
In a press release, Patterson Hood discussed the band’s Flicker Bar show: “We decided that it would be fun to go play an acoustic late-night show at the tiny Flicker Bar, less than a block away from our beloved 40 Watt Club,” he said. “We ended up playing a set that included all but one song off of our new, but still unfinished, album. I didn’t even know until recently that there was an existing tape of the show. This is a beautiful document of our band at a very crucial and joyous moment in time. I’m so happy that it exists.”
The album was the follow-up to Drive-By Truckers’ acclaimed third album, “Southern Rock Opera”, and it was the band’s first with Jason Isbell. “The legacy of the band has definitely grown,” Isbell reflected in a statement, “and there’s a new appreciation for the Truckers and especially for that era of Decoration Day. Without them, you wouldn’t have the kind of work being done by MJ Lenderman and Wednesday and Waxahatchee and a bunch of other acts. I can hear the Truckers in all that music.”
The album features DBT classics like ‘Sink Hole,’ ‘Marry Me,’ and many others, plus, of course, the now-standard Jason Isbell tracks ‘Outfit’ and the powerful title track. The single is the new remix of ‘Sink Hole‘ plus a never-before-released live version from Flicker Bar.
The set will be available on digital, 3-CD, and standard black vinyl. But fans can also buy limited colour edition LPs. Here’s the Flicker bar version of ‘Sink Hole’
