Steve Earle - Copperhead Road | REACTION

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Outlaw country. The 'country music' community never embraced him because of his politics and brashness of his story telling. He's one of our greatest songwriters.

I'm 71, but every time I hear this song, I'm 19 and back in Viet-nam then my mountains on Western N.C Blue Ridge Mountains. clp

The distain of authority by the Scotch Irish decendents of Appalachia was well earned. Never Forget and be Proud of that Heritage.

Steve is a friend of mine, we met through his participation in the docu-play Coal Country. His latest release "Ghosts of West Virginia" contains many of the songs he wrote and performed in the play. He's one of the kindest and most generous men I've ever known, very humble as well. And loves to fish lol.

Tricia's husband here: Jamal the area in and around the hills of Tennessee was settled by people of Scottish/Irish descent. The music patterns and influences are from Scottish/Irish music. The most telling pattern is the music starting very slow while telling a story and as the story progresses the tempo and intensity speed up until they are going all out. Imagine the opening bars of this song being played on bagpipes. It would be right at home.

“Guitar Town” is another great song by Steve Earle. He is a legend. It’s Amazing that people don’t know who he is.

Steve Earle's greatest hits are all killer no filler. That can't be said for most artists. He is an unbelievable story telling musician.

This song... gives me chills every time i hear it.... also makes me remember much better days.

Pronounced “Earl” and he’s got some great tunes!!

I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't ya know. That line has some ominous implications. Great songwriting

One of my favorite songs ever. The story, when the drums come in hard, his story-teller sound...all with a country/rockabilly feel

That's called southern rock one of my favorite songs

" I learned a thing or two from Charlie don't you know" may be the darkest lyric ever! Refers to the booby traps that our soldiers faced in the war

I'm so happy that you chose a Steve Earle tune! The man is a legend 🙌

Great song, great songwriter, great recording. I've always considered this a sideways tribute to our Vietnam veterans.

Any rock song/country song that opens with bagpipes and a mandolin is going to rock your world.

Jamel, what you thought was going to happen did happen... "The sheriff came around in the middle of the night.. Heard Mama cryin', knew something wasn't right.. Headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load, You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road.." The car did crash. Great thing about this song is it tells a three-generational story & the video illustrates it really well. Toward the end you even see a quick flash of each generation sitting on the porch..grandfather changes to father then to son. So quickly I didn't even notice it first time I saw the video. It's a shame they never made a movie out of this, would've been good. There was a 1958 film called "Thunder Road" about a family of moonshine runners. It starred Robert Mitchum. Very similar story. 💙☮💙

Moonshine running is literally how NASCAR got started. A lot of those original drivers ran moonshine. And yes, moonshine will warm you up FAST.

This song has it's own following. Even has it's own dance moves. Moonshine was a way of life for my grandparents in western North Carolina. It also brought about the early birth of my second child one hot July when I , belly way out in front of me, mistook it for ice water. Whew!!!