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Copperhead Road: Steve Earl is any of it factual?

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#1 · (Edited)
Great sounding song with presumably a 'cult following' but nobody in that cult says 'what the.....?' The lyrics and video are miles apart. It's like he didn't know anything about 'shine and growing weed...



I can see it now, a moonshiner wants to make up a batch of 'shine so he picks up a "hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line"
I ain't no brewmaster but a 100 pounds of yeast?.......................If you are distilling, literally the last thing you need is copper line - since those ready to run copper stills are laying everywhere in them woods..


Then in video as he is walking through shoulder high tobacco and sowing seeds at his feet from Columbia and Mexico..at 3:20

They tore that 40s Dodge from the Mason's Lodge auction down and turned it into a Big-Block Dodge..-- that's some serious NASCAR's roots 'shinner's there



Well my name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
He only come to town about twice a year
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad
Headed up the holler with everything he had
'Fore my time but I've been told
He never come back from Copperhead Road
Now Daddy ran whiskey in a big block Dodge
Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side
Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumblin' sound
When the Sheriff came around in the middle of the night
Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right…
 
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Yeah, I’ve thought the same. 100 pounds twice a year..200 pounds a year. That’s a LOT of mash. The seed tossing was also lame, as if someone might see, and you don’t grow pot in the shade of other plants.

but I still remember the rumbling sound.

would have love to see that played live, cause it starts out as very much hillbilly pickin and turns into raucous rock n roll. I could see a 15 minute version of that REALLY loud.
 
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Thank You Sir my elementary chemistry just had me wondering on 2,000 gal tanker truck loads of 'shine. 'course that's why you run a Big Block Dodge....
Junior Johnson was the real deal on 'shine. This IMAX NASCAR video has about one of the coolest 'shine running scenes ever. Keep your eyes peeled for the 'one-shoot film deal' NASCAR IMAX DVD on used DVDs.. It will work your entertainment center amazing.. IMAX brought the entire NASCAR field together for a week to produce that movie... Vid shots are outstanding.

 
#6 ·
Great sounding song with presumably a 'cult following' but nobody in that cult says 'what the.....?' The lyrics and video are miles apart. It's like he didn't know anything about 'shine and growing weed...



I can see it now, a moonshiner wants to make up a batch of 'shine so he picks up a "hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line"
I ain't no brewmaster but a 100 pounds of yeast?.......................If you are distilling the literally the last thing you need is copper line - since the stills are laying everywhere in them woods..


Then in video as he is walking through shoulder high tobacco and sowing seeds at his feet from Columbia and Mexico..at 3:20

They tore that 40s Dodge from the Mason's Lodge auction down and turned it into a Big-Block Dodge..-- that's some serious NASCAR's roots 'shinner's there



Well my name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
He only come to town about twice a year
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad
Headed up the holler with everything he had
'Fore my time but I've been told
He never come back from Copperhead Road
Now Daddy ran whiskey in a big block Dodge
Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side
Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumblin' sound
When the Sheriff came around in the middle of the night
Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right…
Its a fuckin song, you retard.
 
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Antelope hunting out on the Texas border last week with a friend, listened to two days worth of "New Country" and can't say I heard one song I'll ever want to hear again.

What the fuck happened to Nashville???

Copperhead Row was written to rhyme at times and so a hundred pounds might have just been the right sound, not measurement.

We play that in drop D tuning...It' a fucking anthem!
 
#9 ·
I believe the road in between the 2 tracks in Bristol is Copperhead Rd.

Maybe it runs thru the drag strip.

I don’t remember which but it’s up in there somewhere.

“Headed down to Knoxville with a wicked load”

“Johnson County Sherriff painted down the side.” Johnson Co is right next to Bristol
 
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I believe the road in between the 2 tracks in Bristol is Copperhead Rd.

Maybe it runs thru the drag strip.

I don’t remember which but it’s up in there somewhere.

“Headed down to Knoxville with a wicked load”

“Johnson County Sherriff painted down the side.” Johnson Co is right next to Bristol
It's actually based on a road nearer Mountain City Tn. called Copperhead Hollow Rd.

Cool song. Artist puts together some catchy songs. But like others have said, all his talents, then he takes advantage of the system, but claims to be a socialist. There's a very gifted and highly intellectual writer out there in the racing world ( I think is buddies with Earle or its his mentor or something IDK) that is the same way. Magic with his words and ability to recall the history of sprint car and midget racing, but so far over the edge on his political views that he's hard to stomach. Sometimes it's best not to know anything about the person I guess. Just appreciate the talent.
 
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I love Steve Earle's music, but in reality he's a waste of talent. Drugs, poor choices and questionable decisions make him a "what might have been" at best. Like lots of people in entertainment, once you dig a little deeper, you'll be sorry to did. As an Eagle's fan, I was saddened to hear what an egotistical, liberal piece of shit Glen Frey was in real life. Fuck it, I outlived him, I guess I win...
 
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“Although it’s hard to predict what this guy’s gonna do. We’ve never had an orangutan in the White House before. There’s a lot of “What does this button do?” going on. It’s scary. He really is a fascist. Whether he intended to be or not, he’s a real live fascist. That’s what’s going on,” Earle added.

The three-time Grammy-winner says while “lefties” are “paying attention to all the stupid sh*t” President Trump does, congressional Republicans are “methodically seeing to their agenda and they’re getting a lot of sh*t done under the radar.”

“They’re hoping for one more Supreme Court justice and Roe v. Wade is done,” Earle explained. “They don’t really care about Roe v. Wade, they care about getting elected. There are people in the House that care about it, but almost no senators.”

Asked how the country’s current political landscape came to be, Earle laid blame at the feet of former President George W. Bush.

“If you want to know what’s wrong with the United States of America, it goes way deeper than Donald Trump. We asked for that. There’s a core problem and the best way to define it is: George W. Bush got into Yale,” the singer said. “The very fact that that’s possible means something’s wrong with the way that we do things; the way we value talent and undervalue education.”
We don’t really understand and we don’t really understand what they’re going through. And we’re not really willing to pay any more taxes ourselves,” he told Rolling Stone.

Quote from above link:

Ultimately, though, Earle said the country would not be better off with Trump’s vice president taking his place.

“I think it’s going to be the same one way or the other, with either one of those guys in office. Trump’s scary because he has the button,” said Earle, who also predicted Trump will spend whatever time he has left in office roaming the White House drinking whiskey and talking to portraits.

“My guess is that there’s been something built around him to get between him and the button. There was when Nixon was in office. They gave him fake codes. He was starting to lose it and walk around talking to pictures and drinking,” Earle said. “That’s all he did the last two years he was in office. He walked around, talked to the portraits and had a glass of f*cking whiskey in his hand all the time.”
 
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I gues if the OP knew what seed really came from Vietnam and Mexico he might understand why it was being planted in a tobacco field. lol :ROFLMAO: Give you a hint it was not weed that made the CIA rich, I can tell you that much. Watch the film Air America and you might get a clue. good song, don't care about the singer most once you get to know their back ground like ted the draft doding loser makes you stop caring and just enjoy the music for what it is.
 
#33 ·
Great sounding song with presumably a 'cult following' but nobody in that cult says 'what the.....?' The lyrics and video are miles apart. It's like he didn't know anything about 'shine and growing weed...



I can see it now, a moonshiner wants to make up a batch of 'shine so he picks up a "hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line"
Lmao! This song was playing yesterday and I literally laughed about that line and said maybe a hundred pounds of cracked corn but not yeast lol.
 
#34 ·
100lbs of yeast? Time for a new girlfriend!

Watched a movie the other day called "The Butcher" it was about this guy who was muscle for some low level mob guy. Anyway he had an all black 71-73 Charger and kept calling it a 69! I thought wasn't there a single fucking guy on the set that didn't have the balls to tell the director that it isn't a 69? That and he said he bought it new in 1969 and it has the original 440 with the Superbee 4 speed transmission. Is that a rare option? 😂

At least they didn't wreck the car in the movie.