Cottonseed (track)
by Drive-By Truckers
Year: 2004
From the album The Dirty South (track #9)


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Cottonseed appears on the following album(s) by Drive-By Truckers:
- The Dirty South (track #9) (this album) (2004)
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"Cottonseed" isn't terrible, but it feels like a track that's trying way too hard to sound badass. Both Mike Cooley's lyrics and his guitar playing seem forced and clumsy, all in an effort to channel the song's narrator who has "put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama's put cottonseed." That's all well and good, I suppose, but this is a track that I often skip when listening to the otherwise great The Dirty South.
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