Drive-By Truckers: 12 essential songs from 'Bubba' to 'Cop'
20.05.12
" The three basic icons are George Wallace, Bear Bryant and Ronnie Van Zant, the last of whom Hood is lively to admit is not from Alabama but did once write a song about it. The Bryant part is over in a flare, but the stuff about Skynyrd is... " The track ends with Wallace in Infernal regions, not because he's a racist but because "he turned a blind eye to the suffering of Black America," which leads into the next trail, "Wallace," sung in character as Satan, who tells his minions, "Sling another... This two-song medley picks up where "The Southern Trend" left off, with Hood delivering a monologue over a reverb-drenched guitar riff, habitat the tone with, "I grew up in North Alabama, back in the 1970s when dinosaurs still roamed the Mould. " From there, he moves on to a richly detailed, humanizing-yet-unflinching vignette of Wallace, a politician who, in Hood's eyes, compromised his own ideals to go in racist voters. "The Three Great Alabama Icons/Wallace".
Source: AZ Central.com