Drive-By Truckers Releasing New Album This Week, Share New Song: Listen

Drive-By Truckers have announced their second album of 2020: The New OK is out digitally this Friday, October 2, via ATO. (Physical editions is set to follow on December 18.) Below, listen to the title track (via Rolling Stone).

The New OK follows January’s The Unraveling. The band wrote and recorded new album across “this endless summer of protests, riots, political shenanigans and pandemic horrors,” as co-founder Patterson Hood said in a press release. Hood added that The New OK is “a full album that hopefully balances out the darkness of our current situation with a hope for better days and nights ahead.”

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The New OK:

01 The New Ok
02 Tough to Let Go
03 The Unraveling
04 The Perilous Night
05 Sarah’s Flame
06 Sea Island Lonely
07 The Distance
08 Watching the Orange Clouds
09 The KKK Took My Baby Away (Ramones cover)