After a one-year absence, Drive by Truckers released its ninth album, “The Big to Do.”

Georgia’s Drive by Truckers have done pretty well for themselves since the band started with Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley in 1996. They are well known for melding Hard Rock, Southern Rock, Country, and Grunge into a completely new genre, surprising fans during their first listen.

This was not so with “The Big to Do.”

While it still holds the group’s signatures and shoots toward being more mainstream, it sounds more rock than country with a more established label, and it lacks a certain something. There is nothing new to set it apart from the rest of today’s recent albums and put it up there with the greats.

They only retain their reputation with humorous and redneck lyrics which are reflected in song names like “The Fourth Night of My Drinking,” “This Fucking Job” and “Daddy Learned to Fly.”

This was hopefully just a lapse in judgment on the band’s part with redemption in the future on its next album.