The Jefferson was christened by former Trucker Jason Isbell, so it’s perhaps fitting that this set from the critically acclaimed Alabama band he splintered from is an epic two-night stand, likewise the first in the new venue’s history. Arguably the foremost contemporary alt-country outfit practicing today, the Truckers rose to prominence in 2001 and 2002 with the limited initial release and subsequent Lost Highway Records reissue of Southern Rock Opera, an ambitious double album which somewhat farcically used a fictionalized version of the career trajectory of fellow triple-guitar Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd as a metaphor for the development of the deep South. Songs like “The Southern Thing” simultaneously pay homage to its best music while looking starkly at the cultural baggage; in “Wallace,” for example, the infamous segregationist governor is welcomed to hell by Lucifer himself.