Drive-By TruckersSouthern Rock Opera

Three guitars, crunchy distorted riffs and twin leads barreling down a smoky highway, raspy voices telling stories between the roar. This double album wrestles with what Patterson Hood calls the duality of the Southern thing, pride and shame, rock and roll and George Wallace. 'Ronnie and Neil' reframes the Skynyrd-versus-Neil-Young feud as mutual respect, and 'Angels and Fuselage' straps you into the doomed 1977 Skynyrd plane as it goes down in a long droning haze. The record where they became one of America's great rock bands.