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Decoration Day

by Drive-by Truckers

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All Time

of 455,735

2,375
2000's

of 265,982

219
2003

of 34,566

30

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.1881 Decoration Day is ranked overall as 3.1881 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.2421 Decoration Day has an avg. critic score of 3.2421 out of 4 stars

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PopMatters

Few bands today are as good at telling a simple, straightforward, from-the-gut story like the Drive-By Truckers are. ...more

All Music Guide

Somber and smart, Decoration Day also manages to kick like a mule, and if isn't quite a masterpiece along the lines of Southern Rock Opera, it's strong enough to suggest the Drive By Truckers have another masterpiece in them. ...more

Rolling Stone

The best new-school Southern rock you can buy. ...more

Rolling Stone

In the course of three excellent studio albums, Alabama's Drive-By Truckers have updated Lynyrd Skynyrd's legacy for a new generation of Southerners; the band's songs are for lovable fuck-ups who get fired from shitty jobs, then drink an entire bottle ...more

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Spin

A raging, ragged Behind The Music--15 coal-black odes to the casualties that art leaves behind and that life can't ...read the complete review at Spin

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Pitchfork

While its peaks fall just a whit short of those on its predecessor, Decoration Day's inward journeys nicely balance out Southern Rock Opera's bombastic expansiveness, and further confirm the Drive-By Truckers' status as the most poetic and insightful...read the complete review at Pitchfork

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The A.V. Club

Drive-By Truckers took a booming shot at immortality with 2001's double-sized concept album Southern Rock Opera, and though that record wowed many critics and fans with its complex examination of how to balance Dixie pride with liberal guilt, the music...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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