Drive-By Truckers' Southern rock opera / Rien Fertel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fertel, Rien, 1980- author.

Series:

33 1/3.

33 1/3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drive-By Truckers (Musical group). Southern rock opera.

Drive-By Truckers (Musical group).

Rock music--Southern states--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Southern States--Songs and music--History and criticism.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

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.

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

Notes.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781501331817

1501331817

9781501331794

1501331795

OCLC:

1055041212