Drive-By Truckers The Big To-Do

3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[D]oggedly tuneful, meticulously detailed vignettes that are part Lynyrd Skynyrd and part Raymond Carver."
"[The album] features another cast of walking-dead survivors struggling with their vices in a Faulknerian landscape of rocked-up desperation."
"THE BIG TO-DO features some of the band's most evocative chunks of misery-detailing to date." -- Grade: A-
"THE BIG TO-DO, it's pleasing to report, rocks as hard and loud as anything they've previously done."
Ranked #11 in Uncut's "The 50 Best Albums of 2010" -- "[F]ull of ferocious rockers, with guitarist Mike Cooley, especially, in serious form."
Billboard - "[T]he Truckers shift gears with the ethereal ambience of the Shonna Tucker-sung 'You Got Another' and the gentle album closer 'Eyes Like Glue."
Paste (magazine) (p.71) - "Once again, the Truckers conjure up satisfying and cinematic songs with the greatest of ease..."
Pitchfork (Website) - "[I]t's a refreshing surprise that the group's latest album, THE BIG TO-DO, finds Hood reconnecting wit the macabre, with grim twists and booze-fueled mayhem, and with the dark corners of the American psyche."