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Top Country Songs About the Devil

I love songs about the devil. What are some great country songs about the devil?

Let's not mention the obvious one. <-- [although I have liked the obvious one since I was a kid.]

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Permalink Reply by Will James on January 19, 2011 at 8:03pm

Obvious but a favorite: "To Beat the Devil" by Kris Kristofferson ("I ain't sayin' I beat the devil, but I drank his beer for nothin', then I stole his song...").

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Permalink Reply by robert raymond on January 19, 2011 at 8:42pm

"Silver and Gold" by trampled by turtles

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Permalink Reply by ron victor on January 20, 2011 at 9:24am

its not quite country but a song that just blows me away is up jumped the devil version by izzy stradlin

also of course the devil went down to georgia- charlie daniels

sin city- gram parsons

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Permalink Reply by David Haskin on January 20, 2011 at 9:59am

Kris Kristofferson has another classic "devil" song: <i>The Silver Tongued Devil and I</i>.

Others:
Steve Earle, The Devil's Right Hand
Slaid Cleaves, Devil's Lullaby

Jakob Dylan, Evil Is Alive and Well
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, The Devil's Inside My Head
Gillian Welch, The Devil Had A Hold On Me

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Permalink Reply by Will James on January 20, 2011 at 10:45am

Basically, all of Kris' songs are about the Devil in one way or another; something he brought back from his Rhodes Scholarship and his thing for William Blake. Also from his third album, "... but the Devil's got her soul." If he wasn't one of the best songwriters, esp early, it would get trite soon.