{"id":803714,"date":"2020-02-01T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=946242"},"modified":"2020-02-01T08:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T15:00:52","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-drive-by-truckers-babies-in-cages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-drive-by-truckers-babies-in-cages\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Drive-By Truckers, \u2018Babies in Cages\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s hard to write a protest song that doesn\u2019t come off as reductive, all the more so in an era when there\u2019s so much to protest. Drive-By Truckers<\/a> strike the right balance on the not-so-subtly-titled track \u201cBabies in Cages,\u201d off their new album, The Unraveling<\/em>.<\/p>\n

With a decidedly more subdued version of the band\u2019s trademark country swing, the tempo comes closer to a weary simmer that evokes the frustration of a populace that feels impotent when it comes to our leaders\u2019 missteps. Building from a spare acoustic guitar to a skronky electric, the nearly six-minute song slowly unfolds the horrors at the border with unadorned images of tinfoil blankets, shoeless children, and kids changing each other\u2019s diapers. Lead singer Patterson Hood sounds genuinely exhausted as he sings, \u201cI\u2019m sorry to my children\/Sorry what they see\/Sorry for the world that they\u2019ll inherit from me.\u201d From there, the song stretches out into a prolonged instrumental that\u2019s trippy, heavy, sprawling \u2014 and reminiscent, somehow, of the anti-war energy<\/a> of the 1967 musical Hair<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This oft-political band knows that right now, we don\u2019t necessarily need uplifting anthems about the resilience of our people. Those feelings don\u2019t quite come naturally in the face of today\u2019s news. But they won\u2019t look away from the tragedy at our borders, or quiet their anger and despair.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to write a protest song that doesn\u2019t come off as reductive, all the more so in an era when there\u2019s so much to protest. Drive-By Truckers strike the right balance on the not-so-subtly-titled track \u201cBabies in Cages,\u201d off their new album, The Unraveling. With a decidedly more subdued version of the band\u2019s trademark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 00:41:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}