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Life in the Factory

Certain Songs #349: Drive-by Truckers – “Life in the Factory”

October 23, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Southern Rock Opera Album: Southern Rock Opera
Year: 2001

Had Southern Rock Opera been released a couple of decades earlier, “Life in the Factory” would have been the song that kicked off side four. And like, oh, I dunno, Quadrophenia, it uses that exalted spot to be a fractal of the entire album.

So like “Dr. Jimmy” or Zen Arcade’s “Turn on The News” “Life in the Factory” pretty much states the entire musical and lyrical theme of Southern Rock Opera in a single song.

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