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Details: Copperhead Road by Steve Earle (1988)
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About the song Copperhead Road by Steve Earle (1988) (from
Wikipedia):
The song's narrator is named John Lee Pettimore III, whose
father and grandfather were both active in
moonshine making and
bootlegging in rural
Johnson County, Tennessee. Pettimore's grandfather
visited town only rarely, in order to buy supplies for a
still he had set up in a hollow along Copperhead Road.
Pettimore's father hauled the moonshine to
Knoxville each week in an old police cruiser he bought
at a surplus auction. According to a family story, a
Revenue Man once confronted John Sr. on Copperhead Road,
intent on apprehending him for his moonshine activities, but
never returned. John Jr. himself is killed in a fiery car
crash on the same road while driving to Knoxville with a
weekly shipment.
Pettimore enlists in the
Army on his birthday, believing he will soon be drafted,
and serves two
tours of duty in
Vietnam. Once he returns home, he decides to use the
Copperhead Road land to grow
marijuana, using seeds from
Colombia and
Mexico. He resolves not to be caught by the
DEA using techniques learnt from the
Viet Cong.
Copperhead Road was an actual road
near
Mountain City, Tennessee, in an area known to locals as
"Big Dry Run" although it has since been renamed Copperhead
Hollow Road, owing to theft of road signs bearing the song's
name. The song also inspired a popular
line dance, timed to the same beat, and has been used as
the theme music for the
Discovery Channel reality series
Moonshiners.
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