FIRST TIME listening to STEVE EARLE - Copperhead Road REACTION
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I really like her, but she almost always get the story wrong on these country songs. But I guess if you only listen to them once, that’s understandable. Anyway, she’s cute and is open minded.
You get it, thank you. My reactions are genuine and authentic so I don't always get the meaning right in my videos since it is truly my first time hearing the song. For a long time I only reacted to lyrics videos for this reason but many people told me I was missing out on so many other elements, that I started trying music videos. I even debated taking this video down because so many people called me dumb for not getting the interpretation 100% right, but then I told myself it is okay to not always be right, my heart was in the right place and I tried my hardest to understand each part of the song to the best of my ability.
Omg you’re not dumb. It’s kind of a tricky story to pick up on I think. Shit I probably heard this a hundred times in the womb and I still didn’t get the whole story for many years. Someone told you right? Grandpa kills the sheriff, then the grandson ends up bringing marijuana seeds back from nam and planting those up the holler. Then he insinuates that he shoots the DEA chopper down.
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@@lillyjanereacts Darlin', you are no where near dumb. The things Steve Earle is talking about are from another time and another reality. It just means you are not aware (as many younger people naturally are) of how things were back in those days. I thought you interpreted it pretty well considering. Also, you looked like you really enjoyed the song and video. As a musician of 50+ years experience, I can assure you that Steve would be pleased.
Not dumb at all! It’s a multi-gen story, and no one gets all the possible meanings of anything the first time. You’re fine! Keep rocking and exploring tunes-you’ll be better for it regardless of what ANYONE says. Cheers! ❤
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.
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
;)
@@Deathstriketheorc 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.
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
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.
kinda like parts of the West, you better know someone, because you are walking into a grow...
@@justinS8522 the trick being how can you get to know someone there if you don't go there. It's a catch 22 that just means that you're screwed regardless.
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
Steve Earle is in a genre by himself.
There's a whole list I consider Texas. Steve Earle, Ray Wiley Hubbard, Junior Brown, Paul Thorn to name a few. Most have been disillusioned by the Record Execs and chose to make less and stay much truer to their craft. Some consider them outlaws. Kind of back to the roots making music for the sake of music.
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
"I'm gonna listen to some country music."
Immediately proceeds to listen to Steve Earle's first rock record. 😂
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.
This is the greatest southern rock song ever sung. My grandfather was from Western NC and made moonshine during Prohibition. You are such a beautiful woman. Your skin makes me cry.
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.
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 !😉😉
Just down the road
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.
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. 😭
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
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 may or may not have been farmed out to a 3 letter agency once upon a time, and we learned everything there is to know about growing pot, and also the kind of traps to look for when in the area. Mostly light anti-personnel stuff meant to injure, not kill. Primarily they were intended to scare off hikers and such from going near their "farms".
Notice the opening with the bagpipes - a nod to the Scots Irish culture that brought their knowledge of whiskey from the old country to the Appalachians- that’s where it all came from. Erin go Bragh - Alba gu Brath!!!!!!!
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.
Same
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.
Just an old Alabama shiner listening to my family history in a great tune ! Peace and love God bless America call sign firedog out !
same to you my fellow bama brother. i still got some shine that my grandad made a long time ago found in a hidden room in his garage after he passed
We used to use 'shine as gas when we ran out! And the engine actually ran! It knocked all to hell - but it ran!
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.
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.
Copperhead Road is a real place.
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.
I may know someone who got one of those signs
Steve Earle, An American Hero. Love This Guy.
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.
@@Johnny-j5n 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.
@@Johnny-j5n YUP S*** HAPPENS in the hollows
This is I think the third reaction video to copperhead road and part of what I love about watching is to see each of them jump when the drums first start and understandably so, it hits hard out of nowhere. I never noticed till I saw my first reaction video and they got hit with it, I guess because I first found this song when I was in middle school so it feels like Ive been listening to it forever, like being born with it in your memory almost.
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.
The fire power is crazy from a hillbilly if u see smoke u don’t go up there as the late great shiner popcorn Sutton said was mind your damn business and get ur ass out because them shiners ain’t hurting no body
I love the face you made, when you realized that he went från shine to seeds :D
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.
You also have it wrong. The road referenced in the song is a real road. It's in Mountain City, TN. Which is in Johnson County. I understand the sentiment you're getting at. There are plenty of places here in Appalachia that are no-go areas if you don't belong there. However, in the song, Copperhead Rd isn't an abstract term used to describe the many similar places. It's describing a single specific place. (The road name was changed to Copperhead Hollow Rd to deter people from stealing the sign.)
@@rogerscurlock2927 Learn something new every day. Thanks for the info.
I have loved this song, and Steve, for more than 30 years, but I have never seen him until this.
This is practically my family song!! Im glad to see one of my favorite reactors reacting to it!!
O.M.G. ! 42 seconds in, you just jumped out your skin when that beat dropped ! 😱😱 I laughed so friggin hard, I just about SHAT myself !
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
@@LoneWolf-k1m 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.
That jump scare was awesome! No, he was saying that Grandad ended the agent.
Copperhead Road is absolutely a real place. It's in Johnson County Tennessee, just outside of a small town called Mountain City. I've personally seen it. The locals said it was renamed to Copperhead Hollow Rd so people wiuld quit stealing the signs.
As a Tennessean, I grew up in the heart of Appalachia, and country music is still a staple among many of us. You mentioned the story line. I think the best country songs are the ones that tell a story.
Nine generations of my kinfolks made whiskey in the mountains of northeast Georgia and western North Carolina.
I've driven Copperhead road. Johnson County Tennessee. I was born near the old Thunder Road near Cumberland Gap.
Absolutely fascinating that there are references to Vietnam, given your reference to Cumberland and that the main man in 'Nam was a General.... Westmoreland.
Under the 1974 Local Government Act, Cumberland was merged with Westmorland to form the new county of Cumbria.
Steve Earle is an absolute legend and this is REAL music. If this is supposed to be country music, then at least he isn't writing dreary ballads about rose gardens. Talking of all things floral and going back to Cumbria (where the Lake District is located), at least William Wordsworth wrote about daffodils. Not that you can make moonshine out of those flowers!
Very best wishes to you.
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!
Petition to make Copperhead Road the National Anthem...just throwing it out there.
Got my vote 💯
I'm a heavy rock/metal fan but I consider the Copperhead Road album to be one of the greatest ever made.
Steve is one of the greatest song writers of this generation. He's won or been nominated for 15 Grammy's!!
Jump scare at the start worth it for a bangin tune 😂😂👌👌
I grew up in the part of East Tennessee that he sings about. My grandfather and his brothers made moonshine when they were young men. He got out of the business after his brother was murdered. I've never been down "Copperhead Rd" but I've been to places like it. This song has always struck a chord with me.
One of my favorite songs !
Heavy Celtic influence in this song too . I really love the story telling, so vivid . Great reaction btw
Any song that starts with bagpipes and mandolin has got to be cool.
Call it what you want, it's still great country and/or great rock. Great reaction Lilly!
It's actually a regional / generational story about class culture, & the way of life in "small town mid-USA" that most city ppl wouldn't begin to understand.
Country music is legendary for its storytelling
I always thought of this as southern rock instead of country... But it could go in either category
best song to crank it UP EVER!!!
I am from the mountains of north Georgia. This song is the real deal. Son there are lots of deep abandoned wells in these mountains. Don't mess around up there. Great advice from my grandpa. The best friend I ever had. RIP
Steve Earle is more like Southern Rock than country. Kinda like Georgia Satellites, another great older band. Check ‘em out. 👍❤️
Outlaw Country
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!!
Never considered this country music. Always thought of it as Southern Rock.
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
Lol Copperhead road absolutely is a real place.... And they are all over the South
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."
Copper Head is a reference to the copper line ending in a copper spicket when distilling moonshine. That is a road you choose.
No he said the government man never came back from copperhead road
This song was pretty much an anthem for me back in the days. I am from Kentucky. And I left my family's path to work for, shall we say, South American Pharmaceutical interests
And my favorite country song is Rose Colored Glasses by John Conlee
Cooperhead road is a real place.
It’s an honest story about a place in time. A few of those places still exist. Those places are best avoided. Brilliant song!
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.
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.
The country station here said this was rock. The rock stations said he was country. Neither would play it.
Steve has been through a COUPLE of substances and chilled out into more or less sobriety. Some of the earlier wasted, twisted stuff is quite awesome, this is in spite of the chemicals, not BECAUSE of them.
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.
Huge Steve Earle fan. He collaborated with Emmylou Harris, the Pogues, Supersuckers, Del McCoury Band and many more
The newest official state song of Tennessee
Foreigner "I want to know what love is" I think it's great that you opened your mind up, What I wouldn't give to hear some of these for the first time again!!!
Copperhead road is a real place and this is a true story.
Thus is a perfect example of Southern rock.
I know there were many hollows like this where my granddad lived in SW Virginia but as far as I know, my family never got into that.
I get hammered drunk to this song lmao
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.
Love Steve’s music and it was played on country radio, another old one to give a listen to by a band called Atlanta, song is “Sweet Country Music “
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).
Love this song, I play this on the jukebox anytime I go out drinking.
This is what country is suposed to sound like. Love Steve Earl.
THERE IS A CHICK THAT ADDS A LITTLE SISTER TO ANOTHER VERSE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF COPPERHEAD ROAD. IT'S ON U-TUBE.
From the cover band "Amy and Me." It's a great second verse, btw.
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 used to run shine in southeast Alabama in the late 60's. I never got caught cause my car was faster then the ABC man. Then came my draft number which was 2 so off to the military I went. 3 tours in the Nam.
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.
Myself ,I am partial to Earles album " The Hard Way" . In particular, "Justice in Ontario " is about some friends of mine . I think we'll worth checking out most anything on that record
The Tennessee state song, Rocky Top has a line "once two strangers climbed old Rocky Top, looking for a moonshine still. Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top, reckon they never will". So our state song actually talks about government agents getting disappeared for getting too close to where moonshine was made. An old Marine friend who's moms family was from Sevier county in East Tennessee, once asked his grandmother, "Grandma, do we make shine?". He said she got a cold hard look on her face and said "Boy, what we do with our corn is our business". And he never mentioned it again. Also, you are mistaken about the part that says "you could smell the whiskey burning". That meant the revenuer agents burned the stills after arresting everyone.
There's a city up in Canada that has a copperhead road. I drive through there often. My best friend and I will always play this song every time we go through. I can't remember how many years we've been doing that.
Kamloops BC
This was a GREAT song!
"Billy Austin" by Steve Earle is a spooky good song.
Also, If you like the war veteran folk story aspect, "Johnny Come Lately" by Steve Earle featuring The Pogues is really well written and a lot of fun. It talks about WW2 in London, and The Pogues are a British band.
Got this one on regular rotation. The Devil's Right Hand and Snake Oil are also great songs by Steve Earle.
My dad made me....MADE ME love this. I ACTUALLY LOVE STEVE.
Another great country song with a good story thats more modern is Hardy - Wait In The Truck.
Love this music (REAL LIFE)
Copperhead road is in Johnson County Tennessee and is a major moonshining area lol. Never been to Copperhead Road but I’ve been to Johnson County Tennessee and it’s an actual road there lol.
Oh now you’ve opened a whole can of worms😂😂😂. One of my personal favorite story songs has got to be “A lot like me”-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. “Kern River”-Merle Haggard.
When he was with the "Steel drivers" it was awesome blue grass.
Steve was among a seemingly HUGE influx of talent in that ONE particular place during that one weird period. If you read thru the list of talent that he lived with, played with, etc, was a helluva time for music.