Where The Devil Don't Stay (track)
by Drive-By Truckers
Year: 2004
From the album The Dirty South (track #1)
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Where The Devil Don't Stay appears on the following album(s) by Drive-By Truckers:
- The Dirty South (track #1) (this album) (2004)
- It's Great To Be Alive! (track #2) (2015)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/19/2026 15:59 | Exist-en-ciel | 174,525 | 71/100 |
| ! | 04/05/2026 03:39 | daCritic | 39,541 | 75/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2024 14:14 | AndyLish79 | 13,222 | 84/100 |
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buzzdainer TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/18/2017 20:08 | #187634
My clearest memory of this song is from riding with a friend to the High Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, California, where Drive-By Truckers would be playing. They're a notoriously loud (as in deafness-inducing) live band, but I'm pretty sure my friend was playing this song even louder than the band was to play the following day. The song justifies it, though--this is a loud, driving rocker about moonshiners and bootleggers, exactly the kind of people you don't want to run into on a lonely highway late at night.
