BY LINDSEY SHAW
You may ask yourself what exactly it means to make a hybrid of alternative rock and country. How can these two otherwise dichotomous styles coexist, let alone harmonize together? While getting a modern message across that dispels the enduring myths about their home region south of the Mason-Dixie, Drive-By Truckers seem to achieve such a sound with ease…further paving a way that starts down a dusty Southern dirt road before reaching us up on the paved highways of the North. After enduring a break-up and line-up change in 2006, they’ve withstood rumors, politics and riffs (both musically and emotionally) to deliver their latest album installment, American Band.