Steve Earl started as a one man, singer-songwriter ... Then, he went into his retro Rockabilly singer phase and now, back to the Americana singer songwriter .... His stuff runs the gamut
A lot of Tennessee (other areas too, but Johnson County is mentioned directly in the song as is Knoxville, so you have to assume it's Tennessee) has strong Irish and Scottish roots because the coasts were already settled and quite full of people by the time the Irish and Scots began immigrating here in large numbers. The bagpipes and overall sound of the song are a nod to the history and heritage to many of the white people in that area.
Copperhead road is a real road in Johnson county. They changed the name slightly to get people to stop stealing the signs. It's called Copperhead Hollow Road now
Finally ! A pair of music video “reactors” who UNDERSTAND THE LYRICS !! Takes a couple of grey haired, white guys, to “get” this story/song. The rhythm that you’re trying to identify, is from the Traditional Bluegrass instrument, the Appalachian Dulcimer ( a four string, neck-less, violin-sized, hourglass shaped instrument; that you laid in your lap and strummed). Steve Earle replicates that rhythm on his Mandolin, which sounds better than the rough sound of the Dulcimer. This is Southern Rock (for the power and emotion) with very strong Bluegrass influences (for the authenticity).
When this song and album come out radio wouldn’t play it and most I knew wouldn’t listen to it. Happy to see over the years it’s become one of his most loved songs
One of the most recognizable song intros. It's a shame Steve doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He wrote a complete album about a bad mining accident in West Virginia. It's a great album. It was also made into a play. It's called Ghosts of West Virginia
That is so true. I remember my Dad told me when we walked from the farm to the cemetery, not to walk in the hills behind the cemetery. It was years later I found out that there was a still in the hills behind the cemetery. Even if you knew the people that ran the still, unless they invited you, you could still disappear.
@@creinicke1000 you'd be correct!! The protestant Irish, aka Scots/ Irish is a different tribe from the Irish. The DNA IS mostly Scottish and Northern English. A little farther back the DNA is Viking. Appalachian Hillbillies will fight!!!
I'm from WV and 😮Dad used to tell me stories about his Dad who ran moonshine. He told me that all the moonshiners kept flocks of Guineas around their stills and called them reveneuer birds. A revenue man might sneak up on a guard dog, but not a flock of guineas. They would alert the moonshiner someone was around and they could escape. The still might get busted up, but they stayed out of jail.
My great grandad, grandad and dad where moonshiners in WV for over a hundred years, not sure about the family now but, wouldn't doubt it.....I do still drink me some shine when I have a friend goes back that way from OK....What you buy in the store these days isn't the best.
Copperhead Road actually existed in Mountain City TN, but they changed the name due to theft of the road signs after this song came out. Also, many of the settlers to the Appalachian area were of Irish & Scottish descent. So, that is most likely where the bagpipe and mandolin influences come from as well as the "folk" style of the lyrics & the delivery of them.
I know a guy from Georgia whose mom drove fir moonshiners. He said she was a petite woman who was real pretty so she was never stopped by a cop. He said she was the best driver he ever knew but never had to use that skill because nobody expected this pretty little girl to be driving a car with a tank of moonshine.
You got it! My mother and grandmother were bootleggers during Prohibition. The dining room had wainscoting, the panels were actually doors. The Treasury Agents never found the booze, even after 2 raids.
Country Music has roots in Scotland, England and also the rythm originated in Africa...These elements is what the country music came from in Appalacia/ the hills, so to speak...
Steve Earle is an amazing singer-songwriter and he excels at story-telling. He often writes songs from the point of view of soldiers and servicemen from throughout history.
@@BourbonCountryReacts you have to count that as a measure of success by having an 87 year old fan that knows good songs and good Bourbon. That's bragging rights!
My great grandfather Russell was a moonshiner, had a secret false floor in the kitchen under the table ❤ ...One of my favorite songs long before this info was disclosed.
Steve has a lot of Irish influence in his music. In particular songs like "The Galway Girl". He also did a song with the folk/punk band, The Pogues on this album called "Johnny Come Lately".
The Scotch Irish settled heavily in the hills and Mtn's of N.C. Tenn. and Va. They brought their knowledge of making spirits ( moonshine) as well as their music with them and music we today call mountain music came from those old Scottish and Irish songs. Many of the same instruments are used as well.
Funny story about "roads you don't go down". My brother was hungover once driving down a road where all these poor folks lived-short cut. He hits this curve in front of their homes and it's just a muddy ass section of road because of the rain and he's just sliding and slinging mud with his flowmasters revved to the max all in their direction while they're on the porch. It must have come of as so disrespectful. He's scared to death he's gonna get either stuck-robbed-and beat to a bloody pulp or he's gonna get shot. hahaa he finally got out of there. Someone did eventually shoot at him while he was driving, barely missed his head. Hit the metal on the door behind his head. That's some luck it didn't hit him. Backroads are fun, especially on 2nd dates. haha
The bag pipes were to reflect the Scotch/Irish immigrants that settled through out Appalachia and brought their whiskey making skills from the old country.
Hi guys. There really is a Copperhead Rd in Tenn. In fact they changed the name a few years back because after this song came out they had to replace the street signs every other week or so, because they kept getting stolen. Steve taught himself to play the mandolin just for this song. He felt it needed it. In the story, grandad eliminated the revenue man. Daddy died in the fiery crash, and the son of course grew weed. For more great Steve story songs, try The Week of Living Dangerously, or maybe The Devil's Right Hand.
Great reaction! Great song! I do have to correct you a bit, it was his dad that didn’t make it hauling whiskey in the big black dodge. It’s no big deal, but it’s basically 3 generations and how they differed a bit. Keep up the good work! Another one of my favorites from him is “Snake oil “. I don’t have a bribe, but y’all would love this song.
Great reaction is always guys I particularly love the song Copperhead road. On point and I'm used to going weddings to weddings for everyone's heavily armed so that makes perfect sense to me you have a good day.
They have to change or had to Copperhead Roads because people keep stealing them...lol But yes here in Tennessee we have a Copperhead Road. And of course we do make some moonshine.
On contraire monsieur, if age is a number then a number is a name. That name is you. Who you are, what you are. Good, bad, or indifferent we are the sum total of our life's experiences. Change one, you alter the whole. I was born in 1963 a stones throw from the great Smokie mountains. I've been halfway around the world and back again. I've seen and done what most can't even dream of. Some of those things will never be spoken of. Life is a long road and it comes at you fast but doesn't come equipped with airbags....
Steve Earle's music used to be classified as "outlaw country" and is nowadays put into the category of "Americana". His stuff is truly amazing, very deep and erudite. A couple I would recommend to you might be "Billy Austin": th-cam.com/video/Xad0Qyu__cE/w-d-xo.html and "This City": th-cam.com/video/p16Lm4B5Emc/w-d-xo.html.
I remember reading an article that said Steve Earle saved country music. I think it was getting a little pop'y..the rhinestones and all that, yet still great music, but it was losing its rawness, Steve brought that back, anyway, kinda like what Kurt Cobain did, Steve is hugely talented and his songs are so damn cool, amazing albums, dudes lived a very hard life too, amazing he's still alive
The next one y'all have to hear is copperhead road extra verse and it's done by Amy N' Me she does a great job and she's doing it from the little sisters view.
This song is amazing. I came to this song through his son's music, Justin Townes Earle. His son wrote some great songs. Mama's Eyes talks a bit about their relationship.
Excellent song I love this song and yes my Dad's great grandfather was a preacher that was also a shiner my brother still has the family recipe and makes for his consumption and maybe I've consumed it but yeah awesome song
His son, the late great Justin Townes Earle, was also a truly amazing singer songwriter and his music is well worth checking out. Lone Pine Hill, Harlem River Blues just to name a few. Sadly after years of being sober he relapsed and cocaine laced with fentanyl killed him in August 2020
Just heard this reaction. As a 70yr old Irish woman I would love to recommend another Earle tune... Galway Girl. Have it with some "real whiskey" 😉 Jameson.
Earl drums haze bus driver hay drives the bus to the guitar town. You can get to the guitar town with Steve Earl. Steve earl sung's a song called guitar g u I t a r guitar towel
Welcome to the history of NASCAR. Jimmy Johnson and several other early stock car drivers were ridge runners from way back and didn't care who knew it. Those boys really knew how to drive but having your literal life on the line made a difference! I remember distinctly occasionally the faint smoke coming from stills on "No Business" mountain near here... so named because if you didn't live up there or have family up there, you had no business being there. Knew quite a few people who got told so while staring down the barrel of a shotgun.
@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 You are correct. Thank you for the head's up. There is also, now anyway, an Indy driver who is named JimmIE Johnson. This old brain gets confused sometimes especially since I don't really follow racing. My dad used to talk about watching King Petty driving on a dirt track in Richmond back in the day and I have several friends who are serious fans of racing so I've picked up a bit of trivia over the years. Also worked at a furniture/appliance place years ago and the boss, another huge fan, had the race on the day of Earnhardt's crash. What a horrible, awful day that was.
@@caretaker158 My Dad was a big Indy 500 fan , him and Mom went from 1948-1964 and only stopped because they were front and center of the big wreck in '64 that killed Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald , after that they only went down for time trials and actually took us kids along . My sister still goes to the race , me I'm into drag racing .
@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 when dad was in boot camp in San Diego in '66-67, he got into drag racing. I grew up hearing the name Don Garlits so much I'm surprised my brother was named Daniel instead of Don! He also discovered Big Daddy Roth around that time and had a Rat Fink hanging out on a shelf and I spent many an hour pouring through his "CarToons" mags. Dad was a model builder from his early teen years and thanks to him, my first model kit (which I did a pretty good job on) was a Weird Oh.... DIGGER!!!!!! A few years before dad died I bought him a BUNCH of Weird Ohs and oh man, can't remember the name of the surfing ones.... I ended up building them for him because the tremor in his hands got so bad. Really brought us together more before he died. Still have all of them and will until it's my turn to go.... wow, major shift in topics.... sorry!!
Steve said he wrote it from a news paper article that went into detail about this story. If I remember it was from Elizabethtown NC. Maybe wrong on that but, I seen it in a interview with Steve, also he said the bag pipes which Steve wanted was something the keyboardist came up with.
I feel ya man. I almost lived this song in eastern Kentucky. They used to fly helicopters over here like it was the ghetto and the DeA would not leave anyone alone. Bunch of poor people trying to feed their families. Just wait till it's legalized here. There's strains in these hills that blow any of this lab made stuff now. Them good ole Magoffin county Cadillacs
Great Reaction... there are some places in Oregon that resemble this.... also.. so I have looked and looked and I don't really know where you have stuck the address to send bribes if one has one. Thanks.
They are places u still don't go if u don't know anyone.. If u do go early in the day. If not you may not see your way out. Enter your own risk.. 😆 🤣 😂 Y'all have a good day and God bless you're heart. 😊
yes copperhead road was a real road however after this songs release people were stealing the street signs as quick as the could be replaced so they changed the name of the road
I agree that the bagpipes are more Scottish music than Irish. With the Irish it's more of a flute and drum sound, but they're both a form of Celtic music. My family is 75% Scott's Irish which are Scots who left and moved to Northern Ireland during a potato famine. They're also known as Ulster Scots. My relatives settled in parts of the Appalachian Mountains near what is now Gatlinburg Tennessee and near grandfather mountain North Carolina. They brought their music with them and were a huge influence on what is today bluegrass music. They also brought their love of good whiskey with them. I've just started doing research I haven't found any evidence yet that there were any bootleggers in my family but who knows maybe I'll find some yet.. As for the music the Scots and Irish brought their traditional music with them and it eventually became what we know today is bluegrass and then country music which was a mix of the bluegrass with the blues. My dad has an interesting theory. He believed that the banjo was a direct descendant of the bagpipes because they are tuned exactly the same way they have the exact same notes and even use the drone string or the drone sound where there's one sound in the backpack that never changes and the same is true with the banjo it has a drone string. And my family turned out to be very musical which I'm sure came from their roots. My grandfather was a member of the Grand Ole Opry House band and played guitar and mandolin. My uncle was one of the Jordan airs who did backup for Elvis and many other CMA legends..
Well, yeah, this song was big when I was younger for being somewhat biographical of my area as well. I was raised in the Rockies, backwoods of North Idaho. No shortage of stories heard growing up. Some roads you didn't go on unless you knew someone who lived there. And a few you didn't go on exactly BECAUSE you knew who lived there...............
at the time this song came out, there was an infamous tennessee highway patrol chopper pilot named Mike Dover that was notorious for finding pot fields here in TN, the line about the DEA having a chopper in the air is suspected to be in reference to Mike Dover who regularly worked with the DEA as a joint operation to find those fields. Steve's never confirmed that, but its always been suspected he was talking about Dover, thats how huge an impact Dover had here in TN at the time to weed growers.
Yeah! Little "sister twister"! Also,my favorite" Conversation with the Devil." Used to see him all the time in the 70's at a dive bar in Dallas called Mother Blues. Great guy, allways hung out next door at Freddie" THE TEXAS CANNONBALL" Kings house playing poker. Was ther once,saw lots of money & guns on the table. Those were some rough boys. Check out Freddie doing The Palace of the King,it's about that joint.Fun times.
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I’m a former DEA agent that lives in the Knoxville area…this song is awesome! There are certain hollows in TN you just don’t go into…
Far Northeast Tennessee...been there...lol...the sign was still there..
But not for long
WV hollers too……
Basically Cocke Co. & parts of Sevier Co.
Eastern KY checkin in
Echave them in Maine too.
One of the most underrated singers of his era. Copperhead road is an actual road in Tennessee.
yeah, I need to dig deeper into his stuff. - Keith
@@BourbonCountryReacts yeah you would really enjoy it, not all of his songs are this good but he has some great ones.
Several Copperhead Roads in Georgia as well
@@reneeholcomb205 hmm interesting
Yeah and its also one of those places you don't go unless you know someone from there.
Steve Earl started as a one man, singer-songwriter ... Then, he went into his retro Rockabilly singer phase and now, back to the Americana singer songwriter .... His stuff runs the gamut
YES!!! I love this song. The vocals, lyrics and instruments are all fantastic!!! Outlaw Country at it's finest.
Same i absolutely love this song
A lot of Tennessee (other areas too, but Johnson County is mentioned directly in the song as is Knoxville, so you have to assume it's Tennessee) has strong Irish and Scottish roots because the coasts were already settled and quite full of people by the time the Irish and Scots began immigrating here in large numbers. The bagpipes and overall sound of the song are a nod to the history and heritage to many of the white people in that area.
Was gonna say the same Appalachia had a lot of Irish Scottish history.
The name Pettimore....hint...far Northeast Tennessee...definately Celtic
Grew up in TN, my mother's family along with many others are Scots-Irish; that's where a lot of the whiskey and moonshine come from.
Copperhead road is a real road in Johnson county. They changed the name slightly to get people to stop stealing the signs. It's called Copperhead Hollow Road now
Thank you all for playing my mom's song you made her so happy!
Finally ! A pair of music video “reactors” who UNDERSTAND THE LYRICS !!
Takes a couple of grey haired, white guys, to “get” this story/song.
The rhythm that you’re trying to identify, is from the Traditional Bluegrass instrument, the Appalachian Dulcimer ( a four string, neck-less, violin-sized, hourglass shaped instrument; that you laid in your lap and strummed). Steve Earle replicates that rhythm on his Mandolin, which sounds better than the rough sound of the Dulcimer.
This is Southern Rock (for the power and emotion) with very strong Bluegrass influences (for the authenticity).
I'm so glad you guys did this. I've seen so many reactors do this one that are room temp brains at best...
When this song and album come out radio wouldn’t play it and most I knew wouldn’t listen to it. Happy to see over the years it’s become one of his most loved songs
Yeah, I don't think my first contact with it was on radio. - Keith
One of the most recognizable song intros. It's a shame Steve doesn't get the recognition he deserves. He wrote a complete album about a bad mining accident in West Virginia. It's a great album. It was also made into a play. It's called Ghosts of West Virginia
I apparently need to get my hands on that one. - Keith
@@BourbonCountryReacts I heard him play and explain each song on Sirius xm
That album was amazing. Here is a live stream performance of it: th-cam.com/video/L5QqgJ3u11k/w-d-xo.html
@@DaisyMae0929 Thank you for sharing I appreciate it
That is so true. I remember my Dad told me when we walked from the farm to the cemetery, not to walk in the hills behind the cemetery. It was years later I found out that there was a still in the hills behind the cemetery. Even if you knew the people that ran the still, unless they invited you, you could still disappear.
This song always makes me smile.
In my neck of the woods ( and/ or swamp) it's not just an 'old Dodge' but also airboats...
Great reaction.
Must be on the bayou. - Keith
The pipes in the beginning are great. I'd have thought this had more of a Scottish influence but I could be wrong. Love this song.
Maybe a mix. But yeah, the pipes are more of a scottish influence. - Keith
Funny thing is, they weren't even real bagpipes, but rather an electronic synthesizer patch/sound that they came up with in the studio!
I think Scottish/ Irish folks settled the Appalachia area.. so.. I believe the songs.. the culture.. and the making if moonshine is part of it.
That's what I was thinking too
@@creinicke1000 you'd be correct!! The protestant Irish, aka Scots/ Irish is a different tribe from the Irish. The DNA IS mostly Scottish and Northern English. A little farther back the DNA is Viking. Appalachian Hillbillies will fight!!!
I'm from WV and 😮Dad used to tell me stories about his Dad who ran moonshine. He told me that all the moonshiners kept flocks of Guineas around their stills and called them reveneuer birds. A revenue man might sneak up on a guard dog, but not a flock of guineas. They would alert the moonshiner someone was around and they could escape. The still might get busted up, but they stayed out of jail.
My great grandad, grandad and dad where moonshiners in WV for over a hundred years, not sure about the family now but, wouldn't doubt it.....I do still drink me some shine when I have a friend goes back that way from OK....What you buy in the store these days isn't the best.
Copperhead Road actually existed in Mountain City TN, but they changed the name due to theft of the road signs after this song came out. Also, many of the settlers to the Appalachian area were of Irish & Scottish descent. So, that is most likely where the bagpipe and mandolin influences come from as well as the "folk" style of the lyrics & the delivery of them.
I am a recovering Alcoholic and have been sober for nine years now. But I still listen to good music while I smoke a bowl of good weed.
I know a guy from Georgia whose mom drove fir moonshiners. He said she was a petite woman who was real pretty so she was never stopped by a cop. He said she was the best driver he ever knew but never had to use that skill because nobody expected this pretty little girl to be driving a car with a tank of moonshine.
I put Steve Earle in the Outlaw/Americana genre . Love this mans music . Too many good albums to name here . ✌🏼💜🎶
Mary sending bourbon and making moonshine song requests. Keep an eye on that girl. : )
Right?? - Keith
You got it! My mother and grandmother were bootleggers during Prohibition. The dining room had wainscoting, the panels were actually doors. The Treasury Agents never found the booze, even after 2 raids.
Country Music has roots in Scotland, England and also the rythm originated in Africa...These elements is what the country music came from in Appalacia/ the hills, so to speak...
Steve Earle is an amazing singer-songwriter and he excels at story-telling. He often writes songs from the point of view of soldiers and servicemen from throughout history.
I love this song, gives me goosebumps as soon as the music begins. Thank you for choosing it even though you already knew it.
Mary gave us the option, so, I just had to. - Keith
@@BourbonCountryReacts you have to count that as a measure of success by having an 87 year old fan that knows good songs and good Bourbon.
That's bragging rights!
Absolutely.
You are spot on. I grew up in the Ozarks, and certain roads you would not drive. Booby traps and such. Very independent types and the best people!
We had a family friend that made 'shine, had lots of customers. One time he spilled some on his kitchen floor, ruined the linoleum.
ha! Was probably good shine then! - Keith
My great grandfather Russell was a moonshiner, had a secret false floor in the kitchen under the table ❤ ...One of my favorite songs long before this info was disclosed.
I listen often and I am 84
Awesome!!
Steve has a lot of Irish influence in his music. In particular songs like "The Galway Girl". He also did a song with the folk/punk band, The Pogues on this album called "Johnny Come Lately".
The Scotch Irish settled heavily in the hills and Mtn's of N.C. Tenn. and Va. They brought their knowledge of making spirits ( moonshine) as well as their music with them and music we today call mountain music came from those old Scottish and Irish songs. Many of the same instruments are used as well.
Hell yea !!! You ain't a country boy if you ain't heard Copperhead Road and Cotton Eye Joe.
Funny story about "roads you don't go down". My brother was hungover once driving down a road where all these poor folks lived-short cut. He hits this curve in front of their homes and it's just a muddy ass section of road because of the rain and he's just sliding and slinging mud with his flowmasters revved to the max all in their direction while they're on the porch. It must have come of as so disrespectful. He's scared to death he's gonna get either stuck-robbed-and beat to a bloody pulp or he's gonna get shot. hahaa he finally got out of there. Someone did eventually shoot at him while he was driving, barely missed his head. Hit the metal on the door behind his head. That's some luck it didn't hit him. Backroads are fun, especially on 2nd dates. haha
The bag pipes were to reflect the Scotch/Irish immigrants that settled through out Appalachia and brought their whiskey making skills from the old country.
There was alot of scotts/Irish who settled in Appalachian mountains ⛰ luv this song 🎵
Copperhead Road is a real place in East Tennessee where moonshine was made and later on people started growing and trafficking weed.
Absolutely love this song.
Hi guys. There really is a Copperhead Rd in Tenn. In fact they changed the name a few years back because after this song came out they had to replace the street signs every other week or so, because they kept getting stolen. Steve taught himself to play the mandolin just for this song. He felt it needed it. In the story, grandad eliminated the revenue man. Daddy died in the fiery crash, and the son of course grew weed. For more great Steve story songs, try The Week of Living Dangerously, or maybe The Devil's Right Hand.
Great reaction! Great song! I do have to correct you a bit, it was his dad that didn’t make it hauling whiskey in the big black dodge. It’s no big deal, but it’s basically 3 generations and how they differed a bit. Keep up the good work! Another one of my favorites from him is “Snake oil “. I don’t have a bribe, but y’all would love this song.
Your correct except is a big block dodge, not big black dodge
One of my favorites. I grew up in a hollow too on a dirt road.
Great reaction is always guys I particularly love the song Copperhead road. On point and I'm used to going weddings to weddings for everyone's heavily armed so that makes perfect sense to me you have a good day.
Great song, great reaction. When this album came out years ago, I had to go out and get it. Not the only solid song on the album..... 🔥
I am 45 and had never heard this tune. Thanks guys!
Thanks Mary. I love this song. I may have known some folks who lived this life.
They have to change or had to Copperhead Roads because people keep stealing them...lol But yes here in Tennessee we have a Copperhead Road. And of course we do make some moonshine.
I always love jamming to this real loud and I'm 71 still rocking 😂
Age is just a number! -Dustin
On contraire monsieur, if age is a number then a number is a name. That name is you. Who you are, what you are. Good, bad, or indifferent we are the sum total of our life's experiences. Change one, you alter the whole. I was born in 1963 a stones throw from the great Smokie mountains. I've been halfway around the world and back again. I've seen and done what most can't even dream of. Some of those things will never be spoken of. Life is a long road and it comes at you fast but doesn't come equipped with airbags....
Steve Earle's music used to be classified as "outlaw country" and is nowadays put into the category of "Americana". His stuff is truly amazing, very deep and erudite. A couple I would recommend to you might be "Billy Austin": th-cam.com/video/Xad0Qyu__cE/w-d-xo.html and "This City": th-cam.com/video/p16Lm4B5Emc/w-d-xo.html.
Good song, great reaction
I remember reading an article that said Steve Earle saved country music. I think it was getting a little pop'y..the rhinestones and all that, yet still great music, but it was losing its rawness, Steve brought that back, anyway, kinda like what Kurt Cobain did, Steve is hugely talented and his songs are so damn cool, amazing albums, dudes lived a very hard life too, amazing he's still alive
The next one y'all have to hear is copperhead road extra verse and it's done by Amy N' Me she does a great job and she's doing it from the little sisters view.
I love Steve Earle! I'm in his FB group. He should be more widely appreciated..good job! I subscribed ❤️
Thanks for the sub. Steve Earl is awesome. - Keith
Thanks Mary!! I love Steve Earl and this song. Both bad ass!! Guitar Town another great choice.
Good song. I have noticed it requested on a lot of reaction channels, but I have never listened to it.
You are welcome. Loved your reaction.
This song is amazing. I came to this song through his son's music, Justin Townes Earle. His son wrote some great songs. Mama's Eyes talks a bit about their relationship.
Thank you Mary!
Thank you
Love the dance for this song
I've never seen it. Well, except for one friend clogging to it in a hip hop club. - Keith
Been waiting and hoping you guys would get to this
There is (or, was) a Copperhead Road in Johnson County TN. They had to change the name of the road because people kept stealing the street sign.
Reminds me of the movie with Robert Mitchum, " Thunder road".
When Friday night with the boys started with Copperhead Road... serious hell would be raised before the sun next shined
Awesome reaction! Papaw was a bootlegger, our 'Copperhead Road' is Browder Holler Rd, to this day people know to stay away.
The song has great storytelling
Lots of Scotch-Irish influence in appalachia...
Indeed. It's everywhere. My people are Welsh, but the mix of Scotch-Irish and German is there. - Keith
That was fun.....great reaction
My dad ran moonshine in Wayne County Kentucky down through Tennessee back in1954
Excellent song I love this song and yes my Dad's great grandfather was a preacher that was also a shiner my brother still has the family recipe and makes for his consumption and maybe I've consumed it but yeah awesome song
Woodinville Port Cask and their rye are great. The rye has strong apricot notes.
Yea its about running moonshine and growing smoke in East Tennessee which is where alot of Irish and Scottish settled down at
Anywhere in Appalachia, from Arkansas to New York. Pretty much the same people, with the same ways. - Keith
Copperhead road was in Tennessee, but they had to change the name because people kept stealing all the road signs after this song came out
His son, the late great Justin Townes Earle, was also a truly amazing singer songwriter and his music is well worth checking out. Lone Pine Hill, Harlem River Blues just to name a few. Sadly after years of being sober he relapsed and cocaine laced with fentanyl killed him in August 2020
The roads r real. Copperhead and thunder road. Some places up there you just don’t go to
Steve Earle wrote a song "Galway Girl" that the Irish have adopted.
Kilroy was here !!! Have a wonderful day everyone. Remember to hit that like button, ya'all.
This is funny. I requested this song along time ago and was told you don't do songs you know. My bad I didn't send a bribe. 😂😂
I listen to this song about weekly, but I'd forgotten it was your wedding song.
Mary did an awesome job
Yes, yes she did. - Keith
Copperhead Rd, real place in Johnson County Tennessee, Mountain City.
Just heard this reaction. As a 70yr old Irish woman I would love to recommend another Earle tune... Galway Girl. Have it with some "real whiskey" 😉 Jameson.
Jameson is ok, but my go-to for irish whiskey is Red Breast 12 year. - Keith
Dim saintes with marijuana oh what a suit's come on brothers
Earl drums haze bus driver hay drives the bus to the guitar town. You can get to the guitar town with Steve Earl. Steve earl sung's a song called guitar g u I t a r guitar towel
As long as it is Irish. 😉@@BourbonCountryReacts
Let's hear Eric Church "STICK THAT IN YOUR COUNTRY SONG "
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Rumors said some folks were found close to my granddaddy's place with 3 rocks on their chests. Something about not wanting them to float away.
We called it Rockabilly
Welcome to the history of NASCAR. Jimmy Johnson and several other early stock car drivers were ridge runners from way back and didn't care who knew it. Those boys really knew how to drive but having your literal life on the line made a difference! I remember distinctly occasionally the faint smoke coming from stills on "No Business" mountain near here... so named because if you didn't live up there or have family up there, you had no business being there. Knew quite a few people who got told so while staring down the barrel of a shotgun.
You're thinking of Junior Johnson , Jimmy Johnson is football .
@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 You are correct. Thank you for the head's up. There is also, now anyway, an Indy driver who is named JimmIE Johnson. This old brain gets confused sometimes especially since I don't really follow racing. My dad used to talk about watching King Petty driving on a dirt track in Richmond back in the day and I have several friends who are serious fans of racing so I've picked up a bit of trivia over the years. Also worked at a furniture/appliance place years ago and the boss, another huge fan, had the race on the day of Earnhardt's crash. What a horrible, awful day that was.
@@caretaker158 My Dad was a big Indy 500 fan , him and Mom went from 1948-1964 and only stopped because they were front and center of the big wreck in '64 that killed Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald , after that they only went down for time trials and actually took us kids along . My sister still goes to the race , me I'm into drag racing .
@@bobbrinkerhoff3592 when dad was in boot camp in San Diego in '66-67, he got into drag racing. I grew up hearing the name Don Garlits so much I'm surprised my brother was named Daniel instead of Don! He also discovered Big Daddy Roth around that time and had a Rat Fink hanging out on a shelf and I spent many an hour pouring through his "CarToons" mags. Dad was a model builder from his early teen years and thanks to him, my first model kit (which I did a pretty good job on) was a Weird Oh.... DIGGER!!!!!! A few years before dad died I bought him a BUNCH of Weird Ohs and oh man, can't remember the name of the surfing ones.... I ended up building them for him because the tremor in his hands got so bad. Really brought us together more before he died. Still have all of them and will until it's my turn to go.... wow, major shift in topics.... sorry!!
@@caretaker158 you have absolutely nothing to be sorry for .
Steve said he wrote it from a news paper article that went into detail about this story. If I remember it was from Elizabethtown NC. Maybe wrong on that but, I seen it in a interview with Steve, also he said the bag pipes which Steve wanted was something the keyboardist came up with.
Waiting for the day that Nothing but the taillights by Clint Black will be reacted to. 😂
My Americana radio station plays him all the time.
You guys the way you got a kick out of ray Stevens and David Allen coe you have to hear an old trucker song by cleatus maggard called white knight
I feel ya man. I almost lived this song in eastern Kentucky. They used to fly helicopters over here like it was the ghetto and the DeA would not leave anyone alone. Bunch of poor people trying to feed their families. Just wait till it's legalized here. There's strains in these hills that blow any of this lab made stuff now. Them good ole Magoffin county Cadillacs
Great Reaction... there are some places in Oregon that resemble this.... also.. so I have looked and looked and I don't really know where you have stuck the address to send bribes if one has one. Thanks.
They are places u still don't go if u don't know anyone.. If u do go early in the day. If not you may not see your way out. Enter your own risk.. 😆 🤣 😂 Y'all have a good day and God bless you're heart. 😊
Yes, yes there are. - Keith
yes copperhead road was a real road however after this songs release people were stealing the street signs as quick as the could be replaced so they changed the name of the road
I agree that the bagpipes are more Scottish music than Irish. With the Irish it's more of a flute and drum sound, but they're both a form of Celtic music.
My family is 75% Scott's Irish which are Scots who left and moved to Northern Ireland during a potato famine. They're also known as Ulster Scots.
My relatives settled in parts of the Appalachian Mountains near what is now Gatlinburg Tennessee and near grandfather mountain North Carolina. They brought their music with them and were a huge influence on what is today bluegrass music. They also brought their love of good whiskey with them.
I've just started doing research I haven't found any evidence yet that there were any bootleggers in my family but who knows maybe I'll find some yet..
As for the music the Scots and Irish brought their traditional music with them and it eventually became what we know today is bluegrass and then country music which was a mix of the bluegrass with the blues.
My dad has an interesting theory. He believed that the banjo was a direct descendant of the bagpipes because they are tuned exactly the same way they have the exact same notes and even use the drone string or the drone sound where there's one sound in the backpack that never changes and the same is true with the banjo it has a drone string. And my family turned out to be very musical which I'm sure came from their roots. My grandfather was a member of the Grand Ole Opry House band and played guitar and mandolin. My uncle was one of the Jordan airs who did backup for Elvis and many other CMA legends..
Wow! What an interesting background you have. Thanks for sharing.
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Ive had the ellligal shine it was good
Fun fact: I grew up in Woodinville
Well, yeah, this song was big when I was younger for being somewhat biographical of my area as well. I was raised in the Rockies, backwoods of North Idaho. No shortage of stories heard growing up. Some roads you didn't go on unless you knew someone who lived there. And a few you didn't go on exactly BECAUSE you knew who lived there...............
at the time this song came out, there was an infamous tennessee highway patrol chopper pilot named Mike Dover that was notorious for finding pot fields here in TN, the line about the DEA having a chopper in the air is suspected to be in reference to Mike Dover who regularly worked with the DEA as a joint operation to find those fields. Steve's never confirmed that, but its always been suspected he was talking about Dover, thats how huge an impact Dover had here in TN at the time to weed growers.
Country is bourn of Irish folk. It makes perfect sense for it to sound Irish.
Suggestion: Choctaw Bingo by Ray Wylie Hubbard
Yeah! Little "sister twister"! Also,my favorite" Conversation with the Devil." Used to see him all the time in the 70's at a dive bar in Dallas called Mother Blues. Great guy, allways hung out next door at Freddie" THE TEXAS CANNONBALL" Kings house playing poker. Was ther once,saw lots of money & guns on the table. Those were some rough boys. Check out Freddie doing The Palace of the King,it's about that joint.Fun times.