Ranked #22 in Uncut's "Best New Albums of 2004" - "Their punk discharges on love, drugs and mutual loathing sound beautifully, if brutally, honest.", "My Morning Jacket and the Kings of Leon are praised as the current standard bearers of Southern rock, but only the Truckers are worthy enough to fly the flag.", "The amps are at 11 and the vocals sound as if they've been fed through a brush chipper....The band also have developed a decidedly funky edge." - Grade: A-, 4 stars out of 5 - "THE DIRTY SOUTH finds the band furthering its Jim Thompson-meets-Lynyrd Skynyrd brand of redneck noir with another sharply observed song cycle....Here, they go even further, displaying a lurid intelligence that seeks to explore an alternate American history...", 4 stars out of 5 - "This record is about identity and resolve in the face of wretched fate. Awash with folklore, there's a rare sensibility in the songs of Hood, Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell that's gripped by mortality as much as myth.", Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "Fourteen loud and moving, war-at-home songs by the boldest 'n' baddest Southern band in the land."