FIRST TIME listening to STEVE EARLE - Copperhead Road REACTION
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Got it backwards .................. it was the Government man, that never came back.
And the truck didn't blowup.... He was on a delivery haul, when the revenue man burnt down the still
There are roads in the U.S. Named copperhead rd
@@davidpinnix7339I always thought the song implied his dad was killed in a police chase. His mom is crying.
You got it backwards it wasn't the government man that didn't come back. It was his granddad and dad that didn't come back from copperhead road
@@bobsylvester88dad was making his regular run and his still was destroyed while he was gone
Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve never considered Steve Earle country music. I’ve always thought of him as southern rock! It’s still a great song!
I agree. Definitely not country. Steve Earle is definitely awesome tho. ❤
I use to hear it on country stations. Great song either way!!
Yes kinda southern rock. A little bluegrass also for me.
Earle most certainly is country music! It's just that 90% of country music is rubbish that gives the genre a bad name.
You haven’t listened to much Steve Earle and you aren’t really knowledgeable about Red dirt and Texas country
I’m a former DEA agent who now lives in the Knoxville area. There are hollows around the South you just don’t go into…
Your 100% Correct I'm from such a place...
Back in the late 80s/early 90s I went to college in Kentucky. There were even warnings about when visiting State Parks to stay on the trails because pot farmers were planting their crops in the parks and setting up booby traps. I wasn't 100% believing it, but just in case it was true, I'd stay on the trails when hiking.
@@justinentz-ip7blThe ones slinging meth will end badly. Alcohol and weed only annoy the government and that amuses your neighbours but meth pisses everyone off.
Yep... And the further south you come...those swamps are dark and deep, gators and razorbacks keep good secrets
grew up around moonshiners in the 60's. heard stories about how collaborators were handled. depending on who you were betraying your comeuppance was different. one guy took a sledgehammer to both legs and threw the tattler in the hog pen alive. he really enjoyed it. if you were lucky you were dead before you went in but you went in. and you spilled your guts first-sometimes literally.
no this is the story of three generations. two were moonshiners, and he grew pot. he's proud of his family.
More Rockabilly than country.
Correct about the introduction of weed into America via the Vietnam War.
@Bonus @Jenny Constantine channel Year Of The Dragon video.
@@4thlinemaniac356 There was a weed boom due to Vietnam but it was here and regularly smoked back in the Colony days. Washington and others grew both Hemp & pot for use and export.
@@dardell2001 I know plus cocaine in stores etc but the song is about the introduction to the people So what occurred to ban make it illegal? @Jenny Constantine channel Year of the Dragon video
Copperhead Road is an actual place in the mountains of East Tennessee.
Live not far from there. But they changed the Rd name so they wouldn't have to constantly replace street signs.
Yup it's just down the road a bit from here. but they changes the name due to everyone stealing the street signs.
And a fun ride
Heard him share this...but we have one in eastern Kentucky...with the same stories. I was delivering catfish for the F&W with this old timer...no teeth...smelled. We broke off the hwy...and he laughed...said buckle up...we go fast through here cause the moonshiners will shoot at us and we don't want to lose the fish. Say fucking what? The stories he shared that week blew me away
a place you don't go if'n you ain't invited !😉😉
Petition to make Copperhead Road the National Anthem...just throwing it out there.
Got my vote 💯
Gotta know the life. i am a 60 year old southern white man. My daddy ran shine in the carolinas in the40's and ealry 50's until he got his girlfriend pregnat and left to join the military. He went to Korea the son went to vietnam. he married my mother and moved back to NC. i grew up on shine stories pot stories most of my friends were in the trade in the 70's 80's. Steve earle is southern rock outlaw country. This song is about generational trauma drugs and fighting the goverment. The one who died and disapperaed first is the treasurery agent and then they came for thefamily.. Oh and Copperhead road is a real place in the the south in Appalachia.
❤ your story!!
Yep know the life. My grandfather built his house with the money made from running shine. I grew up in the late 80's. When people asked me why I left the area I grew up in i'd say there were only 2 ways for a young man from that county to make a living: growth and distribution of illegal substances or leave the county. I always considered this song to be an anthem for me and my friends.
@@chitownlivingston7007you completely misunderstood what was said by the OP.
Mom's side were moonshiners in Tennessee back in the day. Two great uncles did prison time over it. My cousins still make the family recipe...for personal use.
The real story is all from real places and roads in East Tennessee.
The jump scare at the beginning was hilarious
That jump scare is one of the funniest things I have ever seen
No word of a lie I replayed that over ten times, tears were flowing I was laughing so hard. 😭
As a guy who lives in east Tennessee Copperhead Road is a very real place and you still don't want to go there unless you know someone there.
They were also burning moonshine for fuel. That’s why you could smell it. It’s also what led to the beginnings of NASCAR.
never knew anyone who would put a $10 dollar a gallon moonshine in the tank of a car when gas was 25 cents a gallon.
Tuned , it ran faster on alcohol. Alcohol is still used today in race engines. Cooler too.
@@savinghistory642a shiner defenetly would the shine would make much more power than pump gas by itsself
A 5th in the tank behind the ethanol
;)
@@bradleyhollon6085 speed was only a factor in the delivery. the point was to stay under the radar as much as possible. driving a car with moonshine fumes coming from the exhaust would not be a good idea.
When this came out in the 80's it wasn't played on country stations, it was played on rock stations, atleast in my area.
This album was a staple in the metal community in the late 80s and 90s, he had made the leap so beautifully to being multi-genre, and we loved it.
I saw Steve play at Lalapalooza. On the same stage with Metallica, Sound Garden, and the Ramones. The crowd warmed up to him after this song.
Yeah, you have it backwards. "Copperhead road" is a road, typically in the south, that everyone knows what happens down that road, but you don't go there unless you're invited. That's what the song is about. And those "roads" are still alive today down here. ;)
i live on one and no one has ever come down it that did not belong. herd of feral hogs too. dead end road lined with the skulls of some of them in varying stages of decay. we salt and preserve the flesh in crocks. the electric company calls before they come to check the meter. always someone on sentry duty. safest place in the county.
He planted "seeds from Columbia or Mexico", some of that wacky weed, and he learned a thing or 2 from Charlie (viet cong), meaning he set booby traps around it.
Yep. Playing in the woods around my home town you learn to pick up on some interesting signs. An out of place stick across a dirt road leading into the deep woods. Leave it alone, its there to let the grower know if a car other than his came in and out.
And river cane commonly found in the south and Appalachian mountains is an excellent naitve substitute for the bamboo that the cong used.
I'm 74 yrs. old and, sadly, I have outlived all of the close friends of my late teens and throughout my 20's and beyond.. But i remember them well. Especially those that went to Viet Nam. There were a number of them that came back with that brand new plan as well. Their stomping grounds were in the Ouachita Mountains of Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. I remember the acres of marijuana patches scattered in various areas (covered with camouflage nets) and the booby traps they deployed in the area. The most common were punji stakes and cartridge traps (google it). Although I never grew any myself, I did assist my friends/brothers-in-arms in setting out the traps. I must add that, throughout that brief period in time, I never heard of any of those traps being encountered.
The Vietnam reference was more talking about how the Vietnam War led to a spike of weed use here, idk if it necessarily was talking about booby traps.
"I'm gonna listen to some country music."
Immediately proceeds to listen to Steve Earle's first rock record. 😂
Actually Lilly, there is and was a Copperhead Rd. Famous for moonshine etc. A few years after this song hit they had to change the name of the Road because people kept stealing the road signs. Grandpa didn't die up there, it was the Govt man who never came back. Daddy did die when his car wrecked while he was making a run with his illegal booze. John Lee the 3rd may still be there selling his products LOL.
I used to live on High Street. Of course those signs didn't last more than 12 hours either :-)
more like the 5th teaching the 6th to keep the tradition going. you can bet there is a still there, too. we scots-irish keep a jar of shine on the kitchen table like a condiment.
From the 40s through the 70s three of my uncles on my mom's side made moonshine and two uncles on my dad's side made bootleg beer and wine. It made us kids laugh that they all got so riled up about weed. Little did they know that the older kids planted seeds from Colombia and Mexico a couple of acres behind the stills. The local law enforcement knew all about the stills and even drank moonshine with my uncles. The weed was never discovered because no one bothered the stills and the cops saw no need to go near them.
One thing I know for sure is that *You Never Go Near Working Stills, NEVER!* Don't mess with the crops either. These entrepreneurs don't play.
Copperhead Road is a real place.
Tom Mcdonald is one Canadian who loves America more than a lot of Americans so sad. I'm a 54 year old fan of Tom and I love what he speaks
50 here I agree
No grandpa knocked off off the government man
and the hogs et him
Now Now let's not talk out of turn revenuer just got lost ,and it's possible that a bear might have got him ,or snake ,pointing fingers isn't going to help anyone.
@@user-qp6pz5gq4e LOL yeah those guys just wandered off in the hollow and got lost
Listen now all I'm saying is accidents happen all the time, and there's no reason for any deeper investigation needed it's just one of those things.
@@user-qp6pz5gq4e YUP S*** HAPPENS in the hollows
Lifelong metalhead here. Discovered this song a few months ago. It's an epic of 'Americana'. Bought the album, really great.
Only “country” album I own, bought it shortly after it came out.
Steve Earle is more like Southern Rock than country. Kinda like Georgia Satellites, another great older band. Check ‘em out. 👍❤️
Outlaw Country
This is still happening in the mountains today and will never stop. He planted weed up and down Copperhead Rd.
Now days it's meth labs around my area
@@user-un1wt2sd4w l think that's everywhere.
The pot copters spraying Paraguay won't help. I wonder how long it's going to take people to connect some direct illnesses and sue the government for spraying airborne poison.
No he said the government man never came back from copperhead road
Just an old Alabama shiner listening to my family history in a great tune ! Peace and love God bless America call sign firedog out !
Lilly Jane, Copperhead Road IS an actual place that Steve wrote about it’s near Mountain City, Tennessee, in an area that the locals call “Big Dry Run”. It was known as a bootleggers road from the 1930s up until the 1970s.
Steve Earle, An American Hero. Love This Guy.
Jump scare at the start worth it for a bangin tune 😂😂👌👌
He's one of the great Troubadours along with John Prine and Guy Clark all of these are worthy of your time I'd love to hear your reaction to the cape
Yes she has definitely got this song backwards! This is a southern rock song ! And later in the 90’S the country western people started to line dance to this song
The movie Coyote Ugly ruined the song for most fans.
Unfortunately, Steve Earl got political, and his music got way too bluesy.
When that song comes on I can’t help but think it’s midnight and everyone is getting on the dance floor
This is practically my family song!! Im glad to see one of my favorite reactors reacting to it!!
Cooperhead road is a real place.
Country music is legendary for its storytelling
One of my favorite songs !
Steve is awesome.he is a great story teller. He is outlaw country. Country with a little bit of rock thrown in there. Sometimes you hear some blues or like in this song, some blue grass as well. And lilly you are absolutely gorgeous. ❤ A dream girl for sure. Much love and respect from Kentucky!!
Steve Earle is a national treasure. Thank You Lilly...Again! Always great reactions!
How do i go by sending her a music video request?
best song to crank it UP EVER!!!
I've driven Copperhead road. Johnson County Tennessee. I was born near the old Thunder Road near Cumberland Gap.
My dad made me....MADE ME love this. I ACTUALLY LOVE STEVE.
My grandpa lived this life back in the 1920s until the late 1940s. Just trying to feed his kids and not die in the coal mine. The White Lightning trail runs right through the center of town here where I live in Tennessee.
It was also definitely the revenuer who didn't come back. The verse says "the revenue man wanted granddaddy bad, headed up the holler with everything he had, before my time but I've been told, he never came back from copperhead road. " He headed up the holler, and he never came back from Copperhead road.
It's a take on the words from Rocky Top, which says "Once two strangers climbed ole Rocky Top, lookin' for a moonshine still, strangers ain't came down from Rocky Top, reckon they never will."
I get hammered drunk to this song lmao
This was one of my brothers favorite songs may her rest in peace
Any song that starts with bagpipes and mandolin has got to be cool.
they had to take the sign down for COPPER HEAD ROAD down and change the name of the road. fans were going down there to take the sign as keep sakes.
It's an actual place and an actual snake. 2 things can be true at once.
I have one of those road signs. I went to college at Appalachian State and we took a road trip to Mountain City TN and swiped a sign. That was 26 years ago, lol. The sign is in my garage right now.
But the name of the road has changed, it's now "Copperhead Hollow Rd."
I used to live on High Street. Of course those signs didn't last more than 12 hours either :-)
Just like where I'm from we had a road 420 and they finally changed it to 426 so that the signs would stay put.
Others have explained the first verse (Grandpa made the regulator man disappear) pretty good, so I'll jump to the second....
Daddy and his uncle tore the engine of the Dodge down to convert it to run on alcohol instead of gasoline. Then they ran moonshine from Copperhead Rd to Knoxville in the "gas tank" of the Dodge.
This is actually how NASCAR got it's start.
3rd verse, he gets back from Vietnam and instead of making moonshine like his dad and grandpa, he grows weed. (The seeds from Colombia and Mexico.)
He sends out a warning not to come around his crops on Copperhead Rd because he's boobie-trapped the area using the tricks he learned from "Charlie" -the name given to the Viet Cong during the war.
Don't know how they worked in your neck of the woods but around here they would have never switched out the fuel. You'd be burning your product instead of making money from it. And it would look real suspicious never stopping at the filling station but still driving around town.
actually a shine car was stripped of everything but the drivers seat. every square inch that could held product. the car sat so low when loaded that there was no reason to obey and traffic laws as it was obvious what was going on. you left out running as fast as it could go until you made your delivery or died one. drove home normally and put the shine car in the barn where it was made ready for the next run. far as i know that is all it was used for. gas was put in it from a gas can. daddy worked as an electrician through the week, ran shine Friday after dark and was home in time time for breakfast Saturday. Saturday was the day they went over the engine with a fine toothed comb and on Sunday we went fishing after church.
Tore the engine down means they took it apart (and then rebuilt it). The rumbling sound is the way the engine sounds after they retuned it to run like a race car (and/or converted it to run on alcohol, I wasn't aware of that aspect before reading the comments here).
Copperhead Road is an actual place in Johnson County Tennessee. The Pettimores lived there and were moonshiners. Dad got killed in a car wreck, where he's talking about heading down to Knoxville (Tn.) with a wicked load.
Some us all got dealt a bad hand since this started, miss. We're still here. Peace.
I love country. Yehaw! :) Good jump scare :D
Thus is a perfect example of Southern rock.
This song always brings tears to my eyes. He has so much love for his family history which clearly is dirt poor, white trash, Appalachian hard living. I just love how unapologetic he is about it.
This is one along the lines of The Devil Went Down to Georgia and still gets played on both classic country and classic rock radio stations. Great reaction.
The newest official state song of Tennessee
THERE IS A CHICK THAT ADDS A LITTLE SISTER TO ANOTHER VERSE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF COPPERHEAD ROAD. IT'S ON U-TUBE.
I'm a heavy rock/metal fan but I consider the Copperhead Road album to be one of the greatest ever made.
Well Lilly, looks like you pretty much got the WHOLE TRUTH of this song. And maybe more too lol. That’s ok, cuz I’m in agreement with a few. And they said your “ Jump scare” was worth the whole song!! So I’m gonna just agree with that. Love your hair, as always. And keep a rockin girl!! Play what you want, country, Rock. I’m here for it!! Please tell your husband, from The Stone Family in Billings Montana , THANK YOU SIR, NOT JUST YOUR SERVICE, BUT WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEART, SOUL, COURAGE, and ABOVE ALL ELSE, YOUR LOVE! And Thank you Lilly. As a man who raised 2 daughters, I know your husband is a special guy!
no-grandad knocked off the government men.
Huge Steve Earle fan. He collaborated with Emmylou Harris, the Pogues, Supersuckers, Del McCoury Band and many more
First time I've ever heard of Copperhead Road being referred to as a Country song...since it was played on mainstream rock stations so much when it was release and is in rotation on a lot of Classic Rock stations.
I was in the army with a guy who's family are real moonshiners in South Tennessee. Brought a Mason jar full of some to the barracks, very strong but surprisingly smooth.
My father was from North Carolina…told me as a kid to not cross the fence line. You could get shot from the men Running the stills…said during prohibition that the revenuers ran the stills.
We used to use 'shine as gas when we ran out! And the engine actually ran! It knocked all to hell - but it ran!
Funny thing about Steve. He was born and reared in Texas, but his family roots are planted deep in Johnson County, Tennessee. So this music runs in his blood.
You should hear Off Kilter cover this song with the bagpipes. It's fantastic.
Oh, and there really is a Copperhead Road in Johnson County, Tennessee.
Heavy Celtic influence in this song too . I really love the story telling, so vivid . Great reaction btw
I have loved this song, and Steve, for more than 30 years, but I have never seen him until this.
Lol Copperhead road absolutely is a real place.... And they are all over the South
An amazing song!
Call it what you want, it's still great country and/or great rock. Great reaction Lilly!
Steve Earl was multi-genre.
I heard of him on hard rock stations when I was like 20.
That jump scare was awesome! No, he was saying that Grandad ended the agent.
I love how this song builds from verse to verse from the hard intro into the first verse (that seemed to scare Lilly) to end as an absolute banger.
Love your takes on the music you review
I lived in southern Missouri for a few years, I was told for the first 6 months I had somebody with a scoped rifle "watching" me most of the time for the first few months, just to see who I was and who I was talking to until they figured out, they could trust me.
Copperhead Road is an actual place in Bristol, Tennessee where this took place
My best memories of this song is from being stationed in Korea. Learned a very active line dance that lines up with the tempo of the song. Get one hell of a workout in just a few minutes! Lol
Ive lived in Tennessee all my life and copperhead road is a real road near the tri city area where Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia all meet and before this song became famous u stayed off copperhead road if you weren't from there now days its just a novelty
I live on the Virginia side across from Mountain City...moonshine is still a big business here.
I live ten minutes from Copperhead Rd. In northeast Tennessee. Johnson Co. hasn’t been able to keep road signs on Copperhead Rd. Because people keep stealing them. It’s been about fifty years since this came out and there are no signs on it right now.
The whole time I was watching this I kept waiting for her to spontaneously jump up and do that line dance girls do to this song. Im from the South though.... Just dance girl! Ya know ya want to!
Great reaction !
My immediate family was never into moonshining, but both of my grandfathers were from Tennessee. We moved to a little piece of land in Alabama with a nice running creek behind the house. Every one knew back up stream from us were stills. They did not bother us and we never spoke of it. The entire community knew and that way of life continued until the community was hit by an EF5 tornado. As far as I know, the creek and the stills were wiped out.
Hi Lilly Jane, I like your name. I'm in Appalachia and was born and raised in what's known as the "Moonshine Capitol of the World". If you've ever seen the movie "Lawless", it's about the county I'm from. My dad was a moonshiner when I was a little kid, pretty much everyone had family that made sugar and corn liquor during that time. My dad jumped the fence and took off on foot into the woods and the revenuers did not catch him when they came around our house at one point. Likewise, in the song, it wasn't Grandpa who never came back from Copperhead Road, it was the revenuer man. That's why he says "You better stay away from Copperhead Road. " And Copperhead Road is real, however, they've had to rename it because the road sign has been stolen so many times. It is in East Tennessee. Hope that gives some enlightenment regarding the story depicted in the song! To the fella who said that Steve Earle was more like Southern Rock, I can see why you might think that way, but you've got a mandolin being played, which would arguably make the song bluegrass influenced. Especially because the story is based in the Appalachian Mountains. That's my opinion. For what it's worth, I also grew up a bluegrass musician, there are many families of bluegrass musicians in my area. Still, it's only my opinion of the song, which I've always loved!
Good song. My favorite by Steve Earle is "Guitar Town."
My favorite "moonshine song" is George Jones' "White Lightning." It's a fun hoot & a holler! 😂🤣
I've not seen a "reaction" video like that before. I had to laugh when you jumped.
He came home with a bran new plan.He took the seed from Columbia and Mexico and planted it up in the holler down Copperhead road.He did something that was easier than moonshining.He was growing weed instead.😅
Never considered this country music. Always thought of it as Southern Rock.
When the song was released it was considered as being southern rock. I've watched way more song reactions than I could begin to guess and it seems that in this era just about any band or artist that has a southern accent or a rural/country accent, other maybe than Lynyrd Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet, is called country music.
There is a lot more truth to that song than you will ever know. Copperhead Road was real in Johnson County, TN. They renamed it... Lot of history happened there.
He just sang the history of many a family that grew up in the Appalachian Mountains.
What he said was the revenuers went to catch his grand dad at his still up in the woods, but the revenuers were not seen again. They just vanished.
His dad was a moonshine runner which means he crashed while being pursued by the law and died.
Got this one on regular rotation. The Devil's Right Hand and Snake Oil are also great songs by Steve Earle.
from a family of moonshiners. granddaddy made the product and mu daddy was the mechanic/driver. made weekly run from augusta ga to panama city fl. have friends who are running 2 stills right now. most folks have a jar of shine on the kitchen table with pickled peppers and chutney. copperhead road is a real place.
Remember dear three cords and the truth that's how country music is supposed to be
Steve Earle is a great musician and a decent actor. Played Wayland, Bubbles sponsor on The Wire. Can't wait until next Saturday. Have a chance to see Steve and Reckless Kelly at The Shed.
Check out 7 nights in Ireland bye Reckless Kelly.
I love the face you made, when you realized that he went från shine to seeds :D
if you want another good story-time country tune to react to then you should listen to "wait in the truck" by Hardy. great tune.
Glad Tennessee gets all the attention, those of us in the corn belt know a bit about it...sugar beets & corn. We had it all. And there ain't much to do but watch the corn grow and sip
Most important line he says is "i kearned a thing or two from Charlie Dont you know" meaning he learned how to set up hidden traps from the vietnamese enemy code named Charlieso he feels better prepared for getting away
Copper Head Road is a very real place in Johnson County TN
Copperhead Rd really use to exist near Mountain city, Tennessee. But they changed the name because people kept stealing the road sign
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