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Where the Devil Don’t Stay tells the band’s unlikely story not chronologically but geographically. Seeing the Truckers’ albums as roadmaps through a landscape that is half-real, half-imagined, their fellow Southerner Stephen Deusner travels to the places the band’s members have lived in and written about. Tracking the band from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Richmond, Virginia, to the author’s hometown in McNairy County, Tennessee, Deusner explores the Truckers’ complex relationship to the South and the issues
is a music journalist whose work appears in Pitchfork, Uncut, the New York Times, Stereogum, the Washington Post, Spin, No Depression, and the Bluegrass Situation, among others. He has contributed longform liner notes to recent reissues by Pylon and the Glands.