It's Great to Be Alive!

It's Great To Be Alive!
Live album by Drive-By Truckers
Released	October 30, 2015
Recorded	November 20–22, 2014
Length	3:16:13
Label	ATO
Producer	David Barbe
Drive-By Truckers chronology
English Oceans (2014) It's Great To Be Alive! (2015) American Band (2016)

It's Great To Be Alive! is the fourth live album by the Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers. Several versions of the album are available on LP, CD and Digital Editions. The album was recorded over a three-night run at the Fillmore in San Francisco, CA on November 20, 21 and 22, 2014.

2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the Drive-By Truckers, and It's Great to Be Alive! commemorates this anniversary. The album's title is a lyric from the Truckers' song "A World Of Hurt". The album is available as a deluxe set that includes five LPs, three CDs, four small posters, and extensive liner notes. The regular issue includes three CDs.

1. Lookout Mountain – 4:51
2. Where the Devil Don't Stay – 4:52
3. Sink Hole – 5:22
4. Made Up English Oceans – 5:16
5. The Righteous Path – 5:15
6. Women Without Whiskey – 4:31
7. The Living Bubba – 6:24
8. Primer Coat – 4:19
9. Mercy Buckets – 5:26
10. Marry Me – 5:46
11. Tornadoes – 5:23
12. Sounds Better in the Song – 5:10
13. Used to Be a Cop – 6:58
14. Shit Shots Count – 4:06
15. Runaway Train – 5:35
16. A Ghost to Most – 4:57
17. Goode's Field Road – 7:35
18. Uncle Frank – 5:13
19. Putting People on the Moon – 7:17
20. First Air of Autumn – 3:35
21. Box of Spiders – 7:47
22. When the Pin Hits the Shell – 3:57
23. A World of Hurt – 7:42
24. Get Downtown – 3:24
25. Ronnie and Neil – 5:03
26. Gravity's Gone – 3:35
27. Pauline Hawkins – 6:26
28. Birthday Boy – 3:32
29. Girls Who Smoke – 4:30
30. Three Dimes Down – 2:53
31. Hell No, I Ain't Happy – 8:10
32. Shut Up and Get on the Plane – 5:24
33. Angels and Fuselage – 7:53
34. Zip City – 5:15
35. Grand Canyon – 13:08

Also released was a single-disc or dual-LP release entitled This Weekend's the Night: Highlights From It's Great To Be Alive! featuring selections from It's Great To Be Alive! People who preordered this release were emailed select additional tracks over a three-month period.^[1]

1. Lookout Mountain – 4:51
2. Women Without Whiskey – 4:31
3. The Righteous Path – 5:15
4. Birthday Boy – 3:32
5. Runaway Train – 5:35
6. Primer Coat – 4:19
7. Putting People on the Moon – 7:17
8. A Ghost to Most – 4:57
9. Goode's Field Road – 7:35
10. Sounds Better in the Song – 5:10
11. A World of Hurt – 7:42
12. Zip City – 7:53
13. Grand Canyon – 13:08

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork Media	8/10[3]
Blurt Magazine	[4]
American Songwriter	[5]

It's Great To Be Alive! received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album holds an average score of 88, based on six reviews.^[6] Pitchfork Media's Jonathan Bernstein said the album "is the sound of a veteran band in complete command of its back catalog."^[3]

The album debuted at No. 111 on the Billboard 200,^[7] selling 5,000 copies in the first week. It has sold 16,000 copies in the United States as of July 2016.^[8]

• Patterson Hood – guitar, vocals
• Mike Cooley – guitar, vocals
• Brad Morgan – drums
• Matt Patton – bass, vocals
• Jay Gonzalez – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Alan Williams – trombone

• Official website