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The Big To-Do

Certain Songs #363: Drive-by Truckers – “After The Scene Dies”

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DBT Big To-Do Album: The Big To-Do
Year: 2010

I got lucky. Because I was a DJ on KFSR for much of the 1980s, wrote for various local zines, and eventually taught myself how to play the drums, I got to be part of Fresno’s music scene for about a decade.

Figure 1984, when bands started giving me tapes to play on the air through 1994, when I moved away.

I don’t know how many local bands I saw during that period, but despite being able to walk into the Wild Blue any early 1990s night that Don was on the door and watch whoever was playing, I still don’t think I saw everybody.

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Certain Songs #362: Drive-by Truckers – “Birthday Boy”

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DBT Big To-Do Album: The Big-To Do
Year: 2010

The Drive-by Truckers capped their near-perfect post-millennial run with 2010’s The Big To-Do, which was one of my favorite albums in my favorite year for music since the century turned.

Apparently one of the last tracks written for it, Mike Cooley’s “Birthday Boy” is yet another in his long list of character studies.

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