A Blessing And A Curse
by Drive-By Truckers
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Drive-By Truckers bestography
A Blessing And A Curse is ranked 6th best out of 23 albums by Drive-By Truckers on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Drive-By Truckers is The Dirty South which is ranked number 2171 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 750.
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A Blessing And A Curse track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 02/25/2026 22:10 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 | |
| 12/04/2025 22:12 | matterhornrider | 4,928 | 81/100 | |
| 09/09/2025 12:33 | TonySayers61 | 23,837 | 64/100 | |
| 04/09/2024 07:46 | cicadelic | 12,107 | 73/100 | |
| 12/17/2023 04:19 | dhbarrett | 8,356 | 65/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 75.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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buzzdainer 10/25/2016 16:41 | #177417
While not quite as ambitious as the trilogy of albums that preceded it--Southern Rock Opera, Decoration Day, and The Dirty South--A Blessing and a Curse is still a very worthy Drive-By Truckers album, one that is both personal and hard edged. It's hard a produce a bad album, or even a mediocre one, when you have a songwriting triple threat as strong as Patterson Hood, Jason Isbell, and Mike Cooley, although the fragmentedness of this album suggests that maybe there was too much talent in this band for this formula to remain sustainable. No matter. A lot of this is great, especially the heartbreaking "Little Bonnie," a slice of Hood family history that encapsulates pain and shame in a way that feels completely frank and utterly shattering.
They're always good, but as time goes on, they have less and less new material and substance to offer.
zdwyatt 05/05/2015 14:53 | #140897
It's a but uneven, especially when compared to the two that preceded it. Listening to it all these years later, you can hear Jason Isbell moving in a different sonic direction than Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley. Isbell's departure after this record opened the door for a great solo record for him, and a return to form for the remaining members of this band.
Romanelli 01/15/2012 15:49 | #35243
You can't go wrong with this band, especially on the albums featuring Jason Isbell.
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