“25 Years of Jam Continues: My #1 album of 2008 was the seventh album by Drive-By Truckers, Brighter Than Creation's Dark. I just posted a track from their '03 album Decoration Day, but a band with three lead singers has plenty to draw from. This is the first album that DBT released following the '07 departure of Jason Isbell; it does, however, feature his then-wife Shonna Tucker on bass. Tucker joined the group as a full-time member in '03 after guesting on upright bass on Decoration Day; here, she replaces Isbell as the band's third writer and singer. She would go on to leave the band in 2011. Brighter Than Creation's Dark is heavily restricted here and only two cuts from it are available; the video for the one I prefer, Mike Cooley's song A Ghost to Most, has some glitches; so, there's nothing left but Patterson Hood's ballad of life in a band whose star has faded, The Opening Act. It's a good song, too.”

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