To commemorate the reissue of their Southern Rock Opera album, Drive-By Truckers will embark on Southern Rock Opera Revisited 2024 Tour, playing almost all of the album in its entirety, alongside a few songs that feel like part of the work’s continued relevance to the band. Although the band still holds onto the dream of SRO On Ice one day happening, it’s no coincidence that 2024 is also an election year. Another year full of some of the same contentious issues that inspired much of the original album’s content, which was set in the post-civil rights deep South, in the era of George Wallace and the like. The band plans to play the album, not as a relic of another time and place, but as a continued conversation about where we came from, and where we are headed in this crazy time in history that we currently reside in. As the band says in one of its songs, “It ain’t about the past.”
