“Never Gonna Change” by Drive-By Truckers

"Never Gonna Change" is one of Jason Isbell's songs on The Dirty South, the fifth Drive-By Truckers album, which came out in August 2004, and he wrote it on his own, words and music.

It lands on the band's second concept album, and like Southern Rock Opera before it, the record takes a hard, unsentimental look at the South, digging into the hypocrisy, irony and tragedy that still hang on there. Isbell also brought "The Day John Henry Died", his retelling of the John Henry story, and "Never Gonna Change" shares the running order with Patterson Hood's "Tornadoes" and "Where the Devil Don't Stay", a song inspired by a poem from Mike Cooley's uncle Ed and cut in a single take.

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