For my first pick, the
Rock and Roll Means Well Team is very happy to pick in the 2000-2002 category, the Drive-by Trucker's 2001 double album of rock and roll genius,
Southern Rock Opera.
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The rock opera isn't dead; it just smells funny - in this case, like whiskey breath, tour-van stink and the smoking wreckage of Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1977 plane crash. In two discs and twenty songs, Dixie's Drive-By Truckers explode the yahoo baggage of 1970s Southern rock in a roaring memoir of growing up white, loud and desperate in the former Confederacy
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http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/...thernrockopera
This album is just so great. I could listen to it over and over again. It's just straight out rock, three guitars that just rip and snarl their way through some of the best rock and rolls songs ever written.
This album has also introduced me to another host of rock and roll bands from the South, as well as opening up my eyes to the great legacy of soul and blues music that came out the South.