Drive-By Truckers Announce Greatest Hits

Perennial Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers have announced a “best of” collection that will encompass their 15 year career. Ugly Buildings, Whores & Politicians: Greatest Hits 1998-2009 will be released August 2 on New West. Former Rolling Stone Managing editor David Fricke is said to have written the liner notes and Athen’s engineering legend David Barbe has mixed and produced the album.

The band is also currently on a tour of the South. Below we have the albums track listing and current tour dates.

1 The Living Bubba

2 Bulldozers and Dirt
3 Ronnie and Neil
4 Zip City
5 Let There Be Rock
6 Marry Me
7 Sink Hole
8 Carl Perkins’ Cadillac
9 Outfit
10 The Righteous Path
11 Gravity’s Gone (Remix)
12 Never Gonna Change
13 3 Dimes Down
14 Lookout Mountain
15 Uncle Frank (Alternate Version)
16 A World of Hurt

Tour Dates:

07-30 Muscle Shoals, AL – W.C. Handy Music Festival *
08-12-13 Athens, GA – Georgia Theatre #
08-16 Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion %
08-31 Baton Rouge, LA – Varsity Theatre
09-01 Austin, TX – Stubbs #
09-02 Dallas, TX – Granada Theatre #
09-03-04 New Orleans, LA – Tipitinas #
09-07 Tuscaloosa, AL – Bama Theatre
09-08 Savannah, GA – Trustees Theater
09-09 Raleigh, NC – Hopscotch Festival
09-10 Chattanooga, TN – Track 29
10-27 Columbia, MO – Missouri Theatre for the Arts