Drive-By Truckers / The Three Great Alabama Icons

[5thcorps]

Sorry DBT but Hank Williams was THE GREAT ALABAMA ICON

[mike1974mini]

Brilliant. Great video, to a fantastic song.

[THEerizzow]

it's thang, not thing.

[THEerizzow]

it's easy to prove MLK was a marxist, it's easy to forget the NOI and Malcolm X were pro-segregation too.

[Sistarovat]

@Chisumisfregginsexy So, you're accusing me of being backwards, ignorant, and outdated? All I did was post facts. If you don't have any facts of your own to refute what I said, then you're the one who's backwards, ignorant, and outdated. Btw, the term "outdated" is relative since trends, ideas, and fashions tend to repeat themselves every 20-50 years. Please elaborate what you mean.

[Sistarovat]

George Wallace wasn't a racist. He was a segregationist. I smell niggerlovin' on the breath of this Yankee trying to immitate a Southern accent. The "Civil Rights" Movement was nothing more than a non-violent, communist revolution.

[Chisumisfregginsexy]

@Sistarovat So how does it feel to be bass-ackwards ignorant and completely outdated?

[dancingrizz]

3 guitars or a life of crime

[Garrett24O]

Most Hated Guy in Alabama:

Harvey Updyke

[leadfeet31]

this song sends chills right down my spine

[donmac55]

Beautiful Video, I find myself transfixed every time I watch it.

[hathawayd11]

In all his praise of Bear Bryant, he forgets to mention that Bryant was in fact from Fordyce, Arkansas, a genteel south Arkansas town. And that, if it wasn't for World War II, in which he was drafted, he was almost sure to take over the head coaching position at the University of Arkansas.

[waveoflight]

Wait wut?

[bulletproofbullets]

Every Drive-By Truckers song breaks my soul. It reminds me of growing up in North Alabama...

[DrkarlJansBanan2]

Very nice!

[tacozzrgood15]

GUYS.

SHUT UP ABOUT DANSARS. HE'S A TROLL. YOU'RE GIVING HIM WHAT HE WANTS. I kind of thought DBT fans would be able to pick that up.

[swohlforth]

being from jersey and being about as liberal as they come, I don't know what the hell to make of this song. Are DBT praising the three great alabama icons? Condemning? Just stating the facts?

[kybrande]

@swohlforth stating facts, and showin more than one side of the story showin the good and the bad and that south is more than what You see on tv and movies.

[LApirtle]

@swohlforth No sarcasm or irony intended here. Being from the south, but (maybe?) somewhat educated... I'd say that Patterson Hood is laying out the complexities of a situation that is usually treated with reductivist one-liners. Especially the part about racism going way, way, way back. I look at this song like a mini-philosophy lecture... no answers given, but the field is fertilized for further investigation. ALl I know is, I've never tired of ths song, going on a decade.

[volsman2020]

@swohlforth you completely missed the meaning of it. DBT is showing that racism is no more common in the S. than it is in the N. in private, but some people see it as a political necessity to play off the race issue. Thus Wallace being a progressive until he lost an election to a segregationist. So he flips and becomes a segregationist to win. But later in life he revert back to his real view. They are trying to say that racism is dead as a practice but the idea lives on thus keeping it alive.

[hatfield11000]

dansars,i would love to kick your ass,what the fuck you doin on dbt videos,get the fuck out of here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[danSARS]

What the fucking shit! This is the worst thing ever. Thanks for making music for the lowest common denominator, assholes.

Do you idiots like this shit cus you recognize things they are talking about?

YOU ARE BEING PLAYED FOR FOOLS BY THESE FRAUDS

[mrjonseagull]

@danSARS how so?

[danSARS]

@mrjonseagull They are catering to a certin demographic. They know people like football, so sing a song about football and rednecks will love you. It's the same lame ass shit that a band like Oasis would pull. No one but english people consider that band "legendary", because they do the same thing the DBT do. People identify with things like Alabama football, and images like the union jack. A good marketer knows this kind of shit will bring in tons of money. These assholes are playing you all.

[mrjonseagull]

@danSARS hmm.. interesting theory. but there's not a lot of football references in the rest of their music. in fact, most of their music is about people in their lives and personal experiences. this album is an exception. it's a concept album about the south and, in particular, lynyrd skynyrd. if they're making tons of money, they are going about the wrong way by not allowing large chains (walmart, best buy, target) to sell their releases.

you fellow alabama artists need to stick together ;)

[danSARS]

@mrjonseagull they are from georgia

[mrjonseagull]

@danSARS true. they started in athens, ga, but the main songwriters are from muscle shoals, al.

[danSARS]

@mrjonseagull It's just that it reminds me of Daniel Moore or something. They know they will appeal to the jerks who live in alabama if they sing a song about football. It's obvious, and not challenging in any way.

[mrjonseagull]

@danSARS haha. i'm sure we are in agreeance that a roll tide song would be atrocious. i don't mind it in this context. it helps tell a good story, in my opinion.

[danSARS]

@mrjonseagull Well this wound up being a fun argument. Congrats on making your points and also keeping your cool. Which is more than I can say for myself. You win, good Sir.

[mrjonseagull]

too bad jason isbell wasnt in this line up. great track.

[scottymacIII]

thank God ! nobody would've ever known about alabama if not for the mighty jason isbell and his true southern wisdom, certainly not me, I'm from waaaay up north---[- East Tennessee

[mommashopper]

Ok, I get it. I have lived in Alabama for over 13 years and have STRUGGLED to see another point of view. Yes, racism is everywhere.... I'm a military brat and have traveled a bit. However, Alabama floors the hell out me. I have met some awesome southerners, but you have to admit some of what the rest of the world believes is spot on! 

[TheRooster456]

If McCartney and Lennon are the Einstein and Oppenheimer of songwriter, the Drive By Truckers are their lab assistants.

[MrClownboy33]

these guys grew up about ten mine away we live in north west alabama which we call the tenessee valley

[fattirevsbud]

I heard that racism was pretty bad in the South though...

[gyoldamnshit]

red checkered hat??



[MrClownboy33]

@gyoldamnshit thats what bear bryant wore or as its really called houndstooth hat

[gyoldamnshit]

@MrClownboy33 yea i know. im from from alabama as well. (meth mountain) thought everybody knew it was called that.

[ChuckHipolitho]

Heavy.

[bruiser1911]

To "bhos1994" : There is no Southern self-hatred in this song. Hood is commenting on the fact that so many people from the South are labeled as racist dickheads because of national media figures such George Wallace. If you think that the Truckers are full of Southern self-loathing, then you apparently don't know shit about them or their music.

[muthamickey01]

i love this band, i wish they would come to Australia. Awesome stuff

[blindriv3r]

appropriate it shows Ronnie wearing his Neil T-shirt, legend also has it he was buried in that shirt.

[cassanovamcgillicutt]

your only getting half of it olemisspike until you listen to the next song Wallace.

[manchester81]

have you heard the next song on the record, olemisspike?

the ending makes more sense in context

[olemisspike]

This song is great until the last 20 seconds.....then it just gets dumb. "The devil is also a southerner", "He brews up some sweet tea for the arrival of the new guest." Right.....cause that's accurate. That's just plain gay and awkward to listen to. The singer also stutters 6:14, "an..and he became a pawn." However, the rest of the song is brilliant.

[DothanDisability]

@olemisspike It is a lead in to the next song on the album Southern Rock Opera entitled Wallace (about him going to Hell)

[SaddleScars]

@olemisspike Congratulations! You just successfully warned the world that your are a snooty, negative-minded fault-hunter! Anything else you'd like to get off your chest? Maybe you're still holding that closet shut with your ten fingers and ten toes?

Why bother saying that "the rest of the song is brilliant" after blasting those two lines? That's like telling an artist that his dated signature in the corner of his masterpeice painting tainted the rest of his brilliant creation.

[sissybabypansy]

I love the song from the SRO...you did a great job .... !!

[atavismdream]

Haha... this is like a song Jack Burton would write.

[Blue370z]

"And George Wallace died back in 98 and hes in Hell now" haha

[Hairyarmpit]

I love the Drive By Truckers,esp.since I am one now,meself...

[johnybladex]

big hello from serbia!!!

Keep on ROCKING!!!

[SanFran1966]

THE 2010 THREE ALABAMA ICONS:

Nick Saban

Paul Finebaum

Antone Dodson

[klumsygod]

@SanFran1966 OOF.

[ouichef60657]

Did I really fall as view 6666 for this?

[theredbonefury]

From North Alabama myself. I can agree with this song. I never appreciated this place til recently. Glad he pointed out that racism isn't what we're all about. In fact, it's the opposite. Rest in hell, Mr. Wallace.

[CoastGuardIDC]

@theredbonefury Wallace asked for forgiveness, and Black leaders forgave him...in fact, by the time he died, Wallace was anti-racist.....just thought you'd like to know....

[StapleGunMS]

@CoastGuardIDC it's funny how people will lie through their teeth isn't it?

[CoastGuardIDC]

@StapleGunMS it depends on what you mean...what do you mean?

[Freebird10201977]

God bless Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, Allen Collins, Leon Wilkeson, and Billy Powell.

[SanFran1966]

Paul Finebaum would make the current list....

[gijswilbrink]

poe he

[antilley2]

If you don't like it move on.... pretty simple?

[aurhys]

yeah man sorry the north and yankee bands cant come out with anything original.

[schwarav]

@aurhys You're a dumbass

[aurhys]

@schwarav - oh yeah i forgot you are the smartest person ever. Get taste in music you yankee fuck

[gijswilbrink]

@schwarav nou nou nou nou nou

[cantarooots]

@aurhys Yes they can, you just dont know where to look, its funny how you can listen to a song this powerful, then spew some ignorant stereotypical unjustifiable shit, exactly what this song is saying not to do. 

[aurhys]

@cantarooots truuuuu....... lets argue on youtube thats cool

[bohs1984]

Just what the world needs, another self hating southerner apologizing for the past. Just fuckin play some music.

[eddiemi]

He did say he hated football

[bradjay]

"Such is the duality of the Southern thing."

[WorkableWizard]

@bradjay you mean "Southern Thang" lol

[PooPoo2U]

bear bryant regularly wore a black houndstooth or checked hat, not red...

[rabbidryan]

awesome band my favorite!!! music dont get much more true than this

[heyitsmejojo]

im not from alabama but this song sure would make me proud to be

[johnnyoblivion]

thank youuuu for posting this

[SSCChivas360]

Bear Byrant wore a red checkered hat and won football games. naw dip. LOL funny song

[sluggo123456]

well done.

[fracwilt]

DBT!!! great song, thanks for sharing!