Danced With the Devil

Greetings to fans of real country music, and welcome to this week’s Essie Country’s 21st Century Real Country Music Song of the Week for the week of 09/01/25 thru 09/07/25.


Danced With the Devil 

Cowritten & Performed by 

Ashland Craft

Released 03/10/2023

Intro by Gene Johns 


This week’s Essie Country’s 21st Century Real Country Music Song of the Week is more than a song, it’s a creative masterpiece of storytelling about unmitigated temptation that will leave you with a feeling of tranquility after a storm. 


Ashland Craft gives an exceptionally haunting performance of “Danced With the Devil.” Ashland gives an intriguing account of her stepping out and into a wickedly enchanted night of dancing with a diabolical stranger. Her story will leave you with an uneasy understanding of what brought her to a moment of flirting with infidelity.


Listen intently to the words of this song. Allow the storyteller and her enchanting voice take you to the Devil’s playground, a “dive” outside of Dallas, and onto to the bedeviled dance floor where devilish temptation was defeated by shaken loyalty. 


In the end she did the right thing. You too can do the right thing and click on the link below and become a mesmerized witness to a dance with the Devil: 


        Essie Country presents:

         Dancing With the Devil

    Performed by Ashland Craft

https://youtu.be/PROYomz_dZ8?si=lTh4UKapk4HApL5D

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