Verbally, the American southern rock / americana group Drive-By Truckers likes a bit of change. Singer, guitarist and songwriter Patterson Hood, for example, announced that their ninth record would be a soul album influenced by Muscle Shoals, Percy Sledge and other raw sixties soul. The songs for this were recorded simultaneously with the material from the eighth album The Big To-Do from 2010. With
… that soul it is not too bad in practice (as far as soul is not already part of southern rock). Go-Go Boots is above all a solid and dark album on which Hood dominates with eight, raw and unadorned compositions sung by himself. As a welcome change there are the roots songs of singer / guitarist Mike Cooly and the most close to country songs, sung with Tammy Wynette-bite by singer / bassist Shonna Tucker. This is complemented by two covers by soul legend Eddie Hinton that mainly sound like Drive-By Truckers, the group that seems incapable of making a bad album. (MR)more
