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He listened to the Drive-By Truckers on his headphones as he walked, daily, to the local coffeehouse in Birmingham, England. The band’s songs and lyrics made him think of his own hometown in the American South. So Stephen Deusner decided to write a book about the alternative Southern rock band. The book, Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers, is about much more than a musical act; it’s about the American South: what it was, what it is, and how we perceive it.
[This edition of Big Talk aired Thursday, October 14, 2021.]
Hosts Michael Glab and Alex Ashkin chat with Bloomington’s most fascinating people.
