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The Day John Henry Died

Certain Songs #354: Drive-by Truckers – “The Day John Henry Died”

October 28, 2015 by Jim Connelly

DBT Dirty South Album: The Dirty South
Year: 2004

If Decoration Day was a conscious effort to tell smaller, more personal stories, then its follow-up, The Dirty South, found DBT feeling both their oats and their ambitions again.

While not quite a concept album — there isn’t really a through line here — The Dirty South tackled several Southern-oriented myths, large and small, and one of the key tracks was Jason Isbell’s “The Day John Henry Died.”

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Drive-by Truckers, The Day John Henry Died, The Dirty South

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