Editing Southern Rock Opera (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| MC = 86/100<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/southern-rock-opera/drive-by-truckers |title=Reviews for Southern Rock Opera by Drive-By Truckers |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=April 13, 2016}}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/southern-rock-opera-mw0000660406 |title=Southern Rock Opera – Drive-By Truckers |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=April 13, 2016 |last=Horowitz |first=Hal}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[The Austin Chronicle]]''
| rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2002-03-01/84810/ |title=Drive-by Truckers: Southern Rock Opera (SDR) |work=[[The Austin Chronicle]] |date=March 1, 2002 |access-date=April 13, 2016 |last=Renshaw |first=Jerry}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Now (newspaper)|Now]]''
| rev3score = 4/5<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nowtoronto.com/music/trucker-tragedy/ |title=Trucker Tragedy |work=[[Now (newspaper)|Now]] |date=August 22, 2002 |access-date=April 13, 2016 |last=Perlich |first=Tim}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Drive-By Truckers: Southern Rock Opera |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |issue=194 |date=September 2002 |page=104}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thedrivebytruckers/albums/album/195461/review/5945922/southern_rock_opera |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001011714/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thedrivebytruckers/albums/album/195461/review/5945922/southern_rock_opera |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 1, 2007 |title=Drive-By Truckers: Southern Rock Opera |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=January 31, 2001 |access-date=March 31, 2013 |last=Fricke |first=David |author-link=David Fricke }}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev6Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Drive-By Truckers |last=Soults |first=Franklin |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |year=2004 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/260 260] }}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev7score = A−<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv102-02.php |title=Consumer Guide: Popstakes |work=[[The Village Voice]] |date=January 15, 2002 |access-date=April 13, 2016 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau}}</ref>
}}
The album was voted the 22nd best of the year in the Pazz & Jop music critic poll of 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres02.php|title=Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 2002: Critics Poll|website=www.robertchristgau.com|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>

The poll founder, Robert Christgau, named it his 23rd favorite album of 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/deans01.php|title=Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 2001: Dean's List|website=www.robertchristgau.com|access-date=2019-04-26}}</ref>

''[[Rhapsody (online music service)]]'' ranked the album #6 on its "Rock's Best Albums of the Decade" list.<ref>[http://blog.rhapsody.com/2009/11/rockdecade.html "Rock's Best Albums of the Decade"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108000844/http://blog.rhapsody.com/2009/11/rockdecade.html |date=November 8, 2009 }} Retrieved 12 January 2010.</ref>

The album was also included in the book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert Dimery|author2=Michael Lydon|title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition|date=23 March 2010|publisher=Universe|isbn=978-0-7893-2074-2}}</ref>