Drive-by Truckers - Welcome 2 Club XIII LP

Welcome 2 Club XIII (the 14th DBT studio album) marks a sharp departure from the trenchant commentary of The Unraveling and The New OK (both released in 2020). The title track pays homage to the Muscle Shoals honky-tonk where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley got their start: a concrete-floored dive lit like a disco with the nightly promise of penny beer. Much of the album serves as a free-flowing coming-of-age memoir with Hood singing at one point: “Our glory days did kinda suck."

01 The Driver
02 Maria’s Awful Disclosures
03 Shake and Pine
04 We Will Never Wake You Up in the Morning
05 Welcome 2 Club XIII
06 Forged in Hell and Heaven Sent
07 Every Single Storied Flameout
08 Billy Ringo in the Dark
09 Wilder Days