DBT Albums - Week 2 - A Blessing and A Curse

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Gravity's Gone
Goodbye
Little Bonnie
Space City
A World Of Hurt
Wednesday
Feb. 14th
Aftermath USA
A Blessing And A Curse (underrated)

All on the same album.
Enough said.

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I'm still looking for a few good men (or women or children or pets) to cover these threads.

Most of the DBT records are taken but The Big To Do and Go Go Boots are still left, plus all the Patterson, Cooley and Isbell solo records are still available. And I aim to cover the Live at the 40 Watt and Secret to a Happy Ending dvd's and they're both available too.

Send me a PM if interested. Thanks.
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I always felt "When the Well Runs Dry" fit nicely on Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 better than anywhere else.


Love me some Isbell though. "Daylight" was my first favorite song on this album for a long time.

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Finally replaced my scratched to hell copy of ABAAC with a digital copy so I can hear it at work. The first time I saw DBT was when this album was released. They were opening up for The Crows at the PNC center. I had already listened to DD, SRO and TDS but had never seen them live. I absolutely love this album in its gloriously dark and stormy entirety. W.O.H. still is an absolutely amazing song that still hits me after all these years and all of those listens. Maybe living with a marriage that has been on life support for longer than id like to admit is part of why I identify with this record so much. The band just knows how to take so many conflicting and damaging emotions and put them in a song that just sums those very feelings up in an intelligent and thoughtful way. This album is audio therapy.

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I still think the Isbell tracks are weak, but I do find myself being more and more drawn to this record as the years go by.
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Clams wrote:I still think the Isbell tracks are weak, but I do find myself being more and more drawn to this record as the years go by.


I'm still half and half on this one. Probably the only DBT album that I'll cherry pick individual tracks from to listen to but rarely listen start to finish
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Clams wrote:I still think the Isbell tracks are weak, but I do find myself being more and more drawn to this record as the years go by.


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Clams wrote:I still think the Isbell tracks are weak, but I do find myself being more and more drawn to this record as the years go by.


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Would like to put my two cents in on this one. I listened to this frequently when it came out, but it is not one I have picked up a lot recently. I do however love the songs they play in concert, especially World of Hurt.
Love-
Feb. 14 (one of their best openers)
Gravity's Gone (my favorite on the album for quite a while)
Space City - really appreciated after seeing him do it on the doc
World of Hurt - live version takes on a life of it's own and is my wife's fav DBT tune
Little Bonnie - great story and love the language ("do the chores and such")

Like sometimes-
Wednesday
Aftermath USA
Blessing and a Curse
Goodbye

Bottom Feeders
Daylight
Easy on Yourself
These songs are among Jason's weakest efforts and are two of the rare "skip" songs on any of their albums. Replace them with TVA and When the Well Runs Dry and you have a really solid album that may rival the big three.

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Clams wrote:I still think the Isbell tracks are weak, but I do find myself being more and more drawn to this record as the years go by.

^^^^ I dug up this thread to say what it seems I've already said.

ABAAC is the definition of an inconsistent record. It's got eight songs I absolutely love and three that I can't stand and always skip (the two Isbell tracks and the title cut) with nothing in between.
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a blessing and a curse the song is redonk.

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Disappointed in this album when it came out but now it has grown on me by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, I was in the middle of getting into DBT for the first time in '06 and had just got the 'trinity' albums and ABAAC obviously does not come close to those.

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dime in the gutter wrote:a blessing and a curse the song is redonk.
Yup. It's a lumbering rock and roll beast.

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Iowan wrote:
dime in the gutter wrote:a blessing and a curse the song is redonk.
Yup. It's a lumbering rock and roll beast.
Dark, grungy goodness to me.
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Daddy_played_poker wrote:
Iowan wrote:
dime in the gutter wrote:a blessing and a curse the song is redonk.
Yup. It's a lumbering rock and roll beast.
Dark, grungy goodness to me.
Yeah, for my ears probably the most memorable anvil-drop heavy chord sequence since......since maybe ever. Love it. I get why it's not played, but man, it is fierce.

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If you’re into pretty colors and repackaged versions of things you already own, this just went up for preorder:

https://www.newburycomics.com/collectio ... 3028051980

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uncle rickey wrote:If you’re into pretty colors and repackaged versions of things you already own, this just went up for preorder:

https://www.newburycomics.com/collectio ... 3028051980
My copy of this on CD disappeared, and I don't own a copy on vinyl. I wonder if this comes with a download?
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John A Arkansawyer wrote:
uncle rickey wrote:If you’re into pretty colors and repackaged versions of things you already own, this just went up for preorder:

https://www.newburycomics.com/collectio ... 3028051980
My copy of this on CD disappeared, and I don't own a copy on vinyl. I wonder if this comes with a download?
Not sure if this will be different, but their special edition, colored vinyl edition of The Dirty South did not include a digital download.
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