Pitchfork

Southern rock journeyfolk Drive-By Truckers will release their first post-Jason Isbell album, Brighter Than Creation's Dark, via New West Records on January 22. DBT bassist Shonna Tucker took up third songwriter duties for the first time on the album, the band's eighth and the follow-up to 2006's A Blessing and a Curse.

The Truckers have already offered a taste of the record with a digital EP, also called Brighter Than Creation's Dark, featuring album tracks "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife", "3 Dimes Down", "The Righteous Path", and "The Purgatory Line". The EP is available now via digital retailers, and if you get any of its tracks on iTunes, the purchase will knock a bit off the cost of the album, as part of the Complete My Album program.

After releasing the album, DBT will kickstart "The Home Front 2008 World Tour" with a bunch of North American dates in February and March (European dates are still forthcoming). And since they seem to like teasers so much, they'll preview both the album and the tour with three dates in Athens, Georgia. The first of the Athens dates will find them playing Brighter Than Creation's Dark in its entirety as part of their annual Nuçi's Space benefit.

Additionally, the band will give a good chunk of its back catalog vinyl reissues on February 5 via New West. The limited edition 180-gram vinyl pressings include reissues of Gangstabilly, Pizza Deliverance, Decoration Day, The Dirty South, and A Blessing and a Curse. For a bunch of these albums, this marks their first vinyl releases.

Brighter Than Creation's Dark:

01 Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife
02 3 Dimes Down
03 The Righteous Path
04 I'm Sorry Huston
05 Perfect Timing
06 Daddy Needs a Drink
07 Self Destructive Zones
08 Bob
09 Home Field Advantage
10 The Opening Act
11 Lisa's Birthday
12 That Man I Shot
13 The Purgatory Line
14 The Home Front
15 Checkout Time in Vegas
16 You and Your Crystal Meth
17 Goode's Field Road
18 A Ghost to Most
19 The Monument Valley

Drive-Byes:

01-10 Athens, GA - 40 Watt (Nuçi's Space benefit) (playing Brighter Than Creation's Dark)
01-11 Athens, GA - 40 Watt
01-12 Athens, GA - 40 Watt
02-11 Anaheim, CA - House of Blues *#
02-12 Los Angeles, CA - Avalon *#
02-13 San Francisco, CA - Mezzanine *
02-15 Portland, OR - Roseland *
02-16 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
02-17 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
02-19 Boise, ID - Big Easy Concert House *
02-20 Salt Lake City, UT - The Palladium *
02-21 Aspen, CO - Belly Up *
02-22 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre *
02-23 Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre *
02-25 Omaha, NE - Slowdown *
02-26 Columbia, MO - The Blue Note *
02-27 Urbana, IL - Canopy Club *
02-28 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre *
02-29 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant *
03-01 Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall *
03-14 Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall
03-15 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
03-16 Newport, KY - Southgate House
03-18 Millvale, PA - Mr. Small's Theater
03-19 Toronto, Ontario - Opera House
03-20 Montreal, Quebec - Cabaret Music Hall
03-21 Northampton, MA - Pearl Street
03-22 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
03-25 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
03-26 New York, NY - Terminal 5
03-27 Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore at the TLA
03-28 Richmond, VA - The National
03-29 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel

* with the Felice Brothers
# with North Mississippi Allstars