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"What runs through A Blessing And A Curse like a low murmuring hum is a sense of disappointment with the way things sometimes turn out, which is invariably not the way we would have wanted them to. So the album is largely about learning to live with degrees of failure, the 11 songs covering faltering relationships, personal meltdowns, a yearning for long-gone better times, mortality, and bereavement...A Blessing And A Curse is perhaps a more personal and introspective record than usual. But there`s still a lot to marvel at, especially the album`s musical diversity...sheer rugged resilience...and laconic defiance. Other bands...have careers. Drive-By Truckers have a calling, to which their music is the only answer." 4 STARS -- Allan Jones, Uncut (New West)
