The bagpipes are a tribute to the ancestry of many Appalachian people. Appalachia was settled by different groups (English, Welsh, some Germans etc.) but the most prominent ethnic group were what are called "Scots-Irish" in the States. They're the Protestants of Northern Ireland. Over in the U.K. they're usually referred to as "Ulster Scots". Even the term "hillbilly" is a reference to those roots. It's believed to come from another older term "Billy boys" due to their support of the Protestant King William of Orange (King Billy) against the Catholic King James back in the day in the old country. When they first got to the American colonies, the coastal regions were already heavily settled by the English and others. The Scots-Irish ended up pushing inland into Appalachia. Hence the term Hill Billy. Even the typical speech and music of Appalachia is the result of what they brought with them and then developed in isolation in the Appalachian hills for many, many years.
Copperhead Road, and Johnson County are in Tennessee. The song had such a following that they changed the name to Copperhead Hollow Road because people kept stealing the road signs!
My grandpa and great grandpa was a moonshine maker and runner in deep mountains Tennessee!! Mu great grandma used to put revenues off her property with a double Barrel shotgun. No warrant no coffee. Lol.
Copperhead road WAS in Johnson county Tennessee. they had to change the name. people kept stealing the signs... I live about 30 miles away, driven it...
My family on both sides are in West Virginia and Ohio. Daddy's side were coal minors and moonshiners and Momma's were farmers... I've been in Oklahoma most my life but I still like my shine.
I like the fact that 3 generations ran illegal product. Grandpa ran moonshine and had the Revenue Dept. after him, Dad ran whiskey and had the Sheriff's Dept. after him and the son grew marijuana and had the DEA after him on Copperhead Road.
No ma'am Copperhead Rd is in Johnson County, Tennessee. My great Uncle died in an Alabama prison at 18 in 1923. He was caught in the woods with some copper line . Just like the roll of it ya saw in the video. He was 17 when they first indicted him in Jackson County, Alabama. Didn't last much more than one year before he was beaten to death. Reportedly by some lifers that wanted the young blonde haired country boy for themselves. Jim wouldn't have it. His body was shipped back home, they said, for burial. His poor body was covered in welts and black and blue from all the bruises. They buried him in a nice hilltop spot. In Scottsboro. Near a place called Devils hill. I have his prison records and my family oral history passed on down through the years. It was his fathers still. Not his. Name was Jim. But they called him Beam, or Beamy. Jim "Beam" Dych. Died at 18. Just a kid. Railroaded into an adult, corrupt prison while still a minor. Then killed. It was a different time. Those depression years are a world away from they way we live today. That is why the WWII Greatest generation was so tough. Thank you ladies for this little number. Shoutout from this old, longhaired, country boy from Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Peace and love, y'all.
He says going down to Knoxville. Which means Tennessee. Northeast Tennessee area. My great great Uncle Clark lived South Eastern Tennessee, also a Shiner. Actually had the privilege of trying his stuff at 17. Thanks to his niece ,my great aunt.
No one comments on two important lines of the song; and I wonder if they’re understood. 1.) “ It’s White Trash / first draft, here, anyway.” I’m Stevie Earl’s age, and was drafted. It was the rule that poor boys and boys in trouble with the law, were immediately drafted; while privileged boys found deferments. I refused my college deferment, after my friends were drafted; and I was drafted (first and only one, of all my cousins); as my father, before me, had taken no deferment, and had been the only one of his family to be drafted in WW2. 2.) “The DEA has choppers in the air; big ass screamers, like back over there.” Obviously “over there” is talking about the helicopters he fought from, in the war in Vietnam. “I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don’t you know. You better stay away…” He’s learned the brutal, deadly, guerrilla style of combat, from the Vietcong (“Charlie”), to defeat those helicopters. So, this is his first, and last, warning, to leave him alone. Generational attitudes of armed defiance of authority is the theme of the song/story; with violent rhythms of Southern Rock, to carry the emotions and express the commitment. This tradition is carried down for hundreds of generations, among the descendants of Scotts, Welsh, and Scott’s-Irish from the “Borderlands”, bording England.
Completely understood I’m a combat veteran myself - ❤️ Cindy and my ancestors are aswell and that’s why I commented that’s what we do when he made that statement
That s an awesome song, isn't t it?! I could see your pride radiating, there. Lo!! Have you ladies reacted to "You ll Never Leave Harlan Alive" by Patty Loveless?
Yes, 100%. I don't know of any song that so accurately captures the despair and grit of the Southern Appalachian any better than that haunting tune. Even at times that we know we should give in, we are too proud(or stubborn), to quit. That's both our greatest strength and greatest weakness. We belong to these mountain highlands as much as these mountain highlands belong to us. I actually get a terribly uneasy(almost panicked) feeling any time that I'm in a flatland part of the country and I realize that I can't see those rolling, blue hills reaching up toward the heavens.
@@LarsonPetty I grew up on the flat, yellow, Texas praire-lands, and when we moved to the Shenandoah Valley, I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful. The drugs, the poverty, are hard to co-exist with, but I could never leave the rocks and creeks, hills and hollers, and go back to the Flatland. It has bathed my soul.
My relatives measured Corn by the Gal per acre, not by the bushel. My great great grand daddy was considered the MS king of...my state. Just like this song says, stories of Revenuers disappearing were told while sitting around, on the porch. The Mtns weren't the place to try and take someones lively hood away from them. Thanks for the memories Ladies!
stumbled on you gals reaction to steve earle.. love it! im probly on a watchlist cuz im related to robert e le and clarks of lewis and clark. i know all about copperhead road lol
Copperhead road was named due to the huge quantity of copperhead snakes found in that area...not the copper tubing used in the still......it was part of keeping "the revenue man" away.
If you're going to be a OHW it might as well be cool like this one🎶 Happy 4/20😎😁 My "sea story" in this regard is, when my ship pulled into Bangkok Thailand in the early 80's, my friend, who was about to get out when the ship returned home, took three shoeboxes and hallowed out two decorative candles and stuffed them with Thai-buds and mailed them to a classified mailbox. Then when he got home to a very happy ol'lady, mortgage, bills paid and a shoebox.😎
I came home with a brand new plan too. I'm 70 and I'm a still a grower in Oregon.
This song is a masterpiece. 1988 ladies. Can't believe you've never heard it. Played on both rock and country radio.
The bagpipes are a tribute to the ancestry of many Appalachian people. Appalachia was settled by different groups (English, Welsh, some Germans etc.) but the most prominent ethnic group were what are called "Scots-Irish" in the States. They're the Protestants of Northern Ireland. Over in the U.K. they're usually referred to as "Ulster Scots". Even the term "hillbilly" is a reference to those roots. It's believed to come from another older term "Billy boys" due to their support of the Protestant King William of Orange (King Billy) against the Catholic King James back in the day in the old country. When they first got to the American colonies, the coastal regions were already heavily settled by the English and others. The Scots-Irish ended up pushing inland into Appalachia. Hence the term Hill Billy. Even the typical speech and music of Appalachia is the result of what they brought with them and then developed in isolation in the Appalachian hills for many, many years.
I learned something new about a region not far from me, ty.
@@Bill-fd8kt No problem!
Copperhead Road, and Johnson County are in Tennessee. The song had such a following that they changed the name to Copperhead Hollow Road because people kept stealing the road signs!
Yep!
They should have just sold signs for cheap. That's the capitalist thing to do.
This just been made a state song in Tennessee, going to see Steve in Dublin Ireland Thursday night, can't wait, all the best ladies
Galway Girl
Damn straight you better have
My grandpa and great grandpa was a moonshine maker and runner in deep mountains Tennessee!! Mu great grandma used to put revenues off her property with a double Barrel shotgun. No warrant no coffee. Lol.
you girls are a good group. explore more.
Copperhead road WAS in Johnson county Tennessee.
they had to change the name. people kept stealing the signs...
I live about 30 miles away, driven it...
My family on both sides are in West Virginia and Ohio. Daddy's side were coal minors and moonshiners and Momma's were farmers... I've been in Oklahoma most my life but I still like my shine.
I like the fact that 3 generations ran illegal product. Grandpa ran moonshine and had the Revenue Dept. after him, Dad ran whiskey and had the Sheriff's Dept. after him and the son grew marijuana and had the DEA after him on Copperhead Road.
I was born and raised in Harlan KY now in Fayetteville NC
Steve is missing a few Grammys. We are losing our national treasures.. most people don't know. ... thanks Steve.
No ma'am Copperhead Rd is in Johnson County, Tennessee. My great Uncle died in an Alabama prison at 18 in 1923. He was caught in the woods with some copper line . Just like the roll of it ya saw in the video. He was 17 when they first indicted him in Jackson County, Alabama. Didn't last much more than one year before he was beaten to death. Reportedly by some lifers that wanted the young blonde haired country boy for themselves. Jim wouldn't have it. His body was shipped back home, they said, for burial. His poor body was covered in welts and black and blue from all the bruises. They buried him in a nice hilltop spot. In Scottsboro. Near a place called Devils hill. I have his prison records and my family oral history passed on down through the years. It was his fathers still. Not his. Name was Jim. But they called him Beam, or Beamy. Jim "Beam" Dych. Died at 18. Just a kid. Railroaded into an adult, corrupt prison while still a minor. Then killed. It was a different time. Those depression years are a world away from they way we live today. That is why the WWII Greatest generation was so tough. Thank you ladies for this little number. Shoutout from this old, longhaired, country boy from Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Peace and love, y'all.
Lol..."Hillbilly Rock"...perfect. I've been trying to think of a genre to fit this in and you nailed it!
He says going down to Knoxville. Which means Tennessee. Northeast Tennessee area. My great great Uncle Clark lived South Eastern Tennessee, also a Shiner. Actually had the privilege of trying his stuff at 17. Thanks to his niece ,my great aunt.
IT was in east Tennessee. Sign was stolen so much afteŕ this came out that they renamed the road.
My grandpa nearly went to prison at the ripe old age of 14 for runnin moonshine whiskey, driving for his older brothers.
You do realize that NASCAR/stock car racing started with "former" shine runners?😊
THE Copperhead Road in East Tennessee!
Steve Earle made this road famous with his 1988 song Copperhead Road, Johnson County Tennessee
No one comments on two important lines of the song; and I wonder if they’re understood.
1.) “ It’s White Trash / first draft, here, anyway.”
I’m Stevie Earl’s age, and was drafted. It was the rule that poor boys and boys in trouble with the law, were immediately drafted; while privileged boys found deferments. I refused my college deferment, after my friends were drafted; and I was drafted (first and only one, of all my cousins); as my father, before me, had taken no deferment, and had been the only one of his family to be drafted in WW2.
2.) “The DEA has choppers in the air; big ass screamers, like back over there.” Obviously “over there” is talking about the helicopters he fought from, in the war in Vietnam.
“I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don’t you know. You better stay away…”
He’s learned the brutal, deadly, guerrilla style of combat, from the Vietcong (“Charlie”), to defeat those helicopters. So, this is his first, and last, warning, to leave him alone.
Generational attitudes of armed defiance of authority is the theme of the song/story; with violent rhythms of Southern Rock, to carry the emotions and express the commitment. This tradition is carried down for hundreds of generations, among the descendants of Scotts, Welsh, and Scott’s-Irish from the “Borderlands”, bording England.
Completely understood I’m a combat veteran myself - ❤️ Cindy and my ancestors are aswell and that’s why I commented that’s what we do when he made that statement
That s an awesome song, isn't t it?! I could see your pride radiating, there. Lo!! Have you ladies reacted to "You ll Never Leave Harlan Alive" by Patty Loveless?
Yes, 100%. I don't know of any song that so accurately captures the despair and grit of the Southern Appalachian any better than that haunting tune. Even at times that we know we should give in, we are too proud(or stubborn), to quit. That's both our greatest strength and greatest weakness. We belong to these mountain highlands as much as these mountain highlands belong to us. I actually get a terribly uneasy(almost panicked) feeling any time that I'm in a flatland part of the country and I realize that I can't see those rolling, blue hills reaching up toward the heavens.
@@LarsonPetty I grew up on the flat, yellow, Texas praire-lands, and when we moved to the Shenandoah Valley, I thought I had never seen anything so beautiful. The drugs, the poverty, are hard to co-exist with, but I could never leave the rocks and creeks, hills and hollers, and go back to the Flatland. It has bathed my soul.
My grandpa was on the other side ,he was Sheriff of Hardin County , Kentucky . A revenuer ! LOL ( Not Harlan )
You could smell the whiskey burnin' , because his gather died in a firey crash.
My relatives measured Corn by the Gal per acre, not by the bushel. My great great grand daddy was considered the MS king of...my state. Just like this song says, stories of Revenuers disappearing were told while sitting around, on the porch. The Mtns weren't the place to try and take someones lively hood away from them. Thanks for the memories Ladies!
There is a another version by his daughter that is a good one to yall check it out 👍
I lived in Hazard Ky. For a while. There is more pot in the Daniel Boone National Forest than trees
stumbled on you gals reaction to steve earle.. love it! im probly on a watchlist cuz im related to robert e le and clarks of lewis and clark. i know all about copperhead road lol
Copperhead road was named due to the huge quantity of copperhead snakes found in that area...not the copper tubing used in the still......it was part of keeping "the revenue man" away.
Thats where NASCAR was born ;) Great reaction Ladies! :D A bit of Justified hinted in there. (Maybe a Raylan Givens influence ;) )
I’m just saying the world may need more Raylan Givens❤️Cindy
Great reaction ladies! Love that song!!
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i think Copperhead Road refers to copperhead snakes-pretty common in Tennessee.
New to yalls channel..love your reactions...keep em comin..62 year old former marine from south carolina
Welcome aboard! Brother 🇺🇸💯
No such thing as a former Marine. Carry on, Devil Dog.
Eastern Kentucky moonshine is the best.
We're k in
If you're going to be a OHW it might as well be cool like this one🎶
Happy 4/20😎😁
My "sea story" in this regard is, when my ship pulled into Bangkok Thailand in the early 80's, my friend, who was about to get out when the ship returned home, took three shoeboxes and hallowed out two decorative candles and stuffed them with Thai-buds and mailed them to a classified mailbox. Then when he got home to a very happy ol'lady, mortgage, bills paid and a shoebox.😎
Copperhead road is in Tennessee, they had to change the name of the road due to the signs being stolen so often
Johnson county Tenn. near Mountain City
Johnson Co Tennessee. i am from this area.
ELMORE LEONARD FANS . I DIG IT
Juice WRLD - Empty
Grandad made moonshine Gradson grew majauna
o yes i leve in clay co kentucky
and now the crap is legal 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐
There is a large Scotch/Irish ancestry up in Maine. We have places you should stay away from up here too. 🤫