Steve Earle - Copperhead Road (Official Music Video) 

I was today years old ( I'm 66years old) when I heard this, I'm British, so that's my excuse. What an amazing song, what an amazing singer!

Yes. Love this song

yes... and I like it.

Another Brit here. Fantastic song! ​@@annehoward140

Been in my favorites for about 5 years.

I love it

Damn right I do!!!

Not American,British and Proud,What a Tune.....

Found this a few years ago loved it ever since.

Nope

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WHE1dM4hYCw.htmlsi=bo-lUcoelo39yTGz if you haven’t seen Heartworn Highways you should definitely check this clip out of a young steve earle

And he's coming to my hometown to perform in June. Really looking forward to the show.

A real treaure

Ok

Счастливый человек!

History makes us

Interesting

That's awesome that your family knows their history that good. 🤙

@jacobrobinson175 There has been a tremendous amount of research done by a huge number of people. I have a copy of a photo of my 6th great grandfather's grave in Scotland. Emailed to me by his descendants (my relatives) who still live there.

... and thats just damn cool, GO GREAT GRAMPA THE 5th!..this one reason why I love the U.S.A.!! THANK YOU!!

So did i, I was watching top gear east coast trip and this was playing in a tyre shop where Jeremy stopped at, and one of the guys who works there was dancing to this

Much love and congrats on expanding your music library! I'm 51 with the early onset of dimintia as a complication from MS. I much like yourself, am branching my music out. It's a great release from a problematic world. Stay strong and keep on rocking bud.

@@bradheath4200 ubet. Peace ✌

His son was awesome too, God rest his soul Justin Townes Earle.

It is a catchy song love 😘❤️ it !! ❤️😘😂💕👍

Lol I'm kinda related he's my mom's exes cousin

Dang

I’m Swedish and I like the authentsity❤

Facts .... Here is a wee reminder from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ,. To get this back on. Blastin loud pround.😁..... Much respect to ya, 🤜🤛

Absolutely

Spirit of America is getting stronger and angrier by the day.

White and loving it

I lived in the swamps of Florida for years lol we made a lot moon . Haha

Ya ok you sang you did 2 in nam I call BS

check out KEEP THE WOLVES AWAY UNCLE LUCIUS

check out keep the wolves away

youre spiritual being

Bob Dylan is the best story teller pal

Pure Americana Brothers and Sisters. This is an American tale! Many of us have lived this story,or one similar.

Slim Dusty with 107 Albums rates a mention!

My great grandfather was a moonshine runner from the age 8 in Kentucky, once he married my great grand mother all was put to a halt..However, in his shop sat a secret covered small still for hunting season & the boys it was tucked away in the corner as it was a top secret operation..Shhh..our secret, Lol. My great grandmother found it a few times thru the year & out it went!

You lose a lot in the process.You don't get quite as much as you'd think but the price for selling makes up the difference. Uhhhhh,so a friend in the business told me.

@@doughesson yeap it's alot of work, alotta sugar, alotta corn, alot of yeast, alot of copper, alotta risk. But a TON of FUN.

At $100 a gallon. Sounds like a good vocation to me!!! Better to make 1000 gallons a year though. Lol

@@lauraphilyaw6879 that would be one hell of a year but you would have some deep pockets.

@@doughesson I've heard sometimes you get as little or less than 1 gallon of Alcohol out of every 10 gallons of mash or as much as 1 out of 4. Purrre alll key halll.

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I agree it is easily one of the best songs ever written.

Probably.

Country, soft rock,.. -Whatever.... I just know that it's a GREAT song 🎙️🎸

Welcome Home Chief. Glad you got straight, finally. Especially glad you're still here! (Did my time at the tail end of Nam, but, being a girl, I wasn't in country. Cannot imagine it...)

buddha

thank you for your service sir both of you

Chief 762 thank you for your service to our country,working through Iraq myself

+Cobra Army working myself through the gulf God Bless

I just found this like a week ago. It’s truly amazing

You poor soul, music is what keeps me alive couldn't imagine losing my power to hear it. Hope you get a miracle somehow, good luck.

try lions mane shroom please.. could help

Worse ways to go my friend.

Dec. 15 :)

He not only is cute but kicks butt as a rocker

I know right!❤ BTW it's "Earle"

💫

106 folsk, and I'm thr first to see the joke

​@@redneckroy8947fhryrtt

Miss these times. Best yrs of my life

I agree@@V0rtexM

I guess that is English somewhere. Leave your cousins alone hahaha

Thank you I needed this more then you know

THANKS

You have no idea 😢

Thank you. Recovering from surgery. It's touching that a stranger cares about strangers.

the dark thoughts, overthinking and doubt are reinforced by incompetent fraternally corrupted police organizations and medical unions. we live in a bad planet

I never understood why my mom loved this song so much. I'm an adult now (ugh) and totally get it. Fuck yes

Springsteen ain't the Earle, but I love both of them!

Tim Cross the end of moonshine where I grew up was 1973 when the sugar price freeze was lifted. and it go expensive. then it was made for tradition sake and not extra money

We've been growing in the Santa Cruz mountains since i've been alive. Now in Nevada it's recently been voted legal. Those of us that have been up and running for years are way ahead of everyone else on this Nevada gold mine. Recreational sales start in 2018 and we are already set up. American bidness

Tim Cross

you are correct..

Tim Cross Take this beautiful song. Listen to "I was only 19" by Redgum, it is the classic Australian rock version. Those 2 songs define the Vietnam experience, totally different songs but equally powerful if you just listen to the lyrics. "And can you tell me, Doctor, why I still can't get to sleep? And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet? And what's this rash that comes and goes? Can you tell me what it means? God help me...I was only 19..."

I agree totally

Can’t go to a bar and not hear this😃😃. More popular than ever

Una grande performance,per una canzone molto bella!😊😍😘🎶🎸🎸🎸🎶💘💓💋💯🌅

I used to turn up at tamworth, early Sunday morning, to see the bluegrass championship's, back in the day..(best thing was cooling one's heels at paradise after?)😅

I tried some real Tennessee moonshine my dad brought home one day. I burnt like fire and tasted like petrol! It was horrible! That was my last taste of moonshine. None for me, thanks 🥵🤮

@@beatlesrgear Unfortunately that was actual 'bootlegger moonshine', not the artisinal refined recipes by people who actually take the care and time to perform proper fractional distillation, get out all the nasty stuff, and keep only the good tasting liquor, proof it to 50%abv so it doesn't rot your stomach lining, and you can have a taste of heaven better than anything you can buy at a liquor store when done right.

​@@beatlesrgear,Aww that, s really to bad. I'm so sorry to hear that. It happens to a lot of ppl actually. Who ever made that should be ashamed to ever let anyone get that swill. As a descendant of a shiner from Copperhead Rd. I can assure you that if you ever get to taste any made there, you will never want anything else. At 140 to 190 proof depending on what part of the run ya get, it's all so 😅 smooth you don't even feel it go down but then it hits nice and warm on its way back up. Flavor depending on what it's made from, I prefer corn because It gives a nice corn flavor and it's delicious if made right. But you never realize you are drinking some licker that's twice the proof of regular licker untill you get a couple in ya. Suddenly out nowhere you are quite buzzed. That's real moonshine.

@@albertmueller6616 Gotta be sour mash corn. Leave the "sugar liquor" (aka white rum) to the tourists.

Check out "The Guitar" by Guy Clark

Same same

Yes ofcourse 👍🏻

Greetings from The Heart of Dixie! 🤘

Amen! I wasn't born there but I was no doubt born with their thinking of love of this country and what I believed justice was and what I had to do to get by in life.

Many of us are just as proud now as they were back then. I'm happy to know my northern brothers and sisters are the same!@@curlycindy

Just wait until you read about what he's said about your dear leader.

Sweet!! Would love a bit!! How 'bout some Cap'n Applejack your way? That's some good stuff too!!

Literally smokin a blunt while listening to this awesome song! 💛from Alaska~

How smooth? Like really smooth? Or really really smooth?

I used to get peach moonshine from an old boy that lived by me in central Florida. Had a peach floating in the mason jar. He got it from Georgia.

Hello How are you doing Thanks for your support ❤️❤️❤️

Hello James r u another lonely man too?

@@elisabethlewis6084 Steve’s Guitar Town

Jesus loves you and died on the cross for your sins and if you believe in Him and accept Him as your Lord and savior you are saved. (John 3:16)

Hello how are you doing

Stay together Forever!

Awesome to hear:)

Best wishes Charlie

God you raised her right congrats friend!

I hope you folks had a fantastic time.

turns boys in to mean is what it is bub

My Momma is from west by God Virginia!!!!🤘

“Hello, am John Country from West Virginia oblast, what is popular American alcohols?” yeah nah, you ain’t welcome

My family goes way back in time to the hills of Tazewell, VA. Being from Scotland since 1725 they probably saw plenty of change in this country. I've thought many times I could see they were making moonshine too.

MOONSHINE in WVA. meant the biggest moon shining usually in the winter, but in today"s world it is a concoction made up of corn or wheat. You should never try it alone. sometimes it can burn your throat and also make you feel all of a sudden very warm inside, but if it is the purist stuff then it will look and taste like water. never drink it when your hot .and you should be sitting down when drinking it because it carries a wallop!!!!!!!!!!!! personally, i have never tried the stuff, just what i have heard.

Welcome home. .

How does it feel to know that you were just a vile puppet of the government? They only fought for the interests of the powerful in turn.

Thank you for your service.

My dad was from rural Tennessee and got drafted at age 19. Ended up in the 1st Cav in the middle of the jungle. They did like to draft poor guys from the country.

@@JohnSmith-ys4nl I was infantry with the Cav!! 1969-70

Did he pass away

*_Holla--_*

Holla!@@moragmacgregor6792

Love it!

Yeeehaaaa!

Holler! And shout out to Lloyd my BFF who is resting in peace!

♥️

My Dad died a few years back, he loved this song too, he'd strum this song on his old Gibson guitar, and he sang this song and many others with all his heart. Cherish the memory of your dad bro, we are only here for a short time.

Sorry for your loss.

Sorry for your loss Buddy. You hang in there.

I'm so sorry for your loss. This song reminds me of all the stories I heard about my great grandfather, who I never met. These songs are timeless and unforgettable, hold on to them! ❤❤❤

Alongside Brandon's aviators

It sure is my family's history. Family comes from Caryville/Knoxville/clinchmore and that's how we made our living for a loooooong time.

I’m Canadian and this song is American history to me lmao

@@thomasroquemore9011 some will never know. They'll never know the feeling of a big a** tomato worm down their back either.🤣

@@stevenrobbins7402 holding down maggie valley over here.

@johnmiller4617 I think the guy is Tom Beringer. Google cast members. I recognized him.

Exactly this was my thought a minute ago.

Greg Shea this ain't country

+Trever G why not?

Greg Shea Yea this is way more country than what they call country today

In Australia we have a genuine old school and very popular country singer...Lee Kernaghan...He does a very good cover..It doesn't quite have the angst of the original.. It got a fair bit of airplay here back in the day.

Den E rip bro

Den E i used to listen to this with my father on road trips when I spent my summers with him. I listen to this song whenever I miss him. It’s magic. Still makes me close to him. Few people will ever have that connection.

Den E amen me too bro

again thanks keep sending your favorite song

Den E here's to Dads everywhere

You brah, you Ozarks too? (LOL)

Top side of Alabama to and from Tennessee.

Seems a lot more simple and effective, think we need to get back to those principles

The song is about Northeast Tennessee and the Smokeys not Arkansas and the Ozarks

@@tweetuums I realize this , and hope you realize that the majority of the earliest settlers in the Ozarks have DEEP and FOUNDATOINAL roots that began in TN & KY, therefore those spaces are ALSO SPECIAL to us.

That's the power of music 🎶 for you ,a timeless masterpiece that will go on for an eternity. 👍😎👍❤️🇬🇧 Sept twenty two

It's a family tradition....

@@doughesson Hank why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke? Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?

True.

I've never heard this song in my life.

What

Why not? , where have you been since before 2014 c'mon man pay attn: please

@kevinwolf5193 I’m almost 70 and I think it has to do with where one grows up, ethnicity, etc. My dad was Italian so I pretty much know all of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin songs. And other Italian artists some may not know are Italian line Tony Bennett and Frankie Lane. A predominantly white, Irish/Italian hosing project. I was the first kid on my block that absolutely loved the black bands back then. David Ruffin and the Temptations, The Four Tops, etc. I blew the muffler in my ’73 Pontiac LeMans passing a car on a double yellow line while listening to ‘Papa Was a Rolling Stone’. I had 8 cylinders and a need for speed. Same song many moons later,singing along, came to a strong line in a verse and thought the poor on the poor lady going in the opposite direction, windows down, almost had a stroke!

I’d like to see him live …. Unfortunately he doesn’t come around where I’m from too often that i know of…. Been a fan of his since the early 80s

lucky bastard

Now that definitely makes me jealous. I love the 2 step beat. I'd be 2 steppin away! Woo!

Me too, 3 x

That would have been awesome

Never heard it in my life.

Excellent song.

@@1w598 Now you have!

@@1w598 ,p

SPECIAL ED EDUCATION

I appreciate your service. Not for nothing, your fellow countrymen ,such as myself, are here for you

Know the feeling.

It affects many of us exactly the same way! 💯

Such an underrated line of this iconic song.

I hate the sound of choppers

Murican!

and east coast canadian. I grew up with this playing in the house and can still hear it when i go back.

@@shanna6169 didn't think Canadian listen to country music

And yet somehow it has 60K downvotes. I don't understand why. I think if you want to dislike a video you must list a reason why.

false, listen to true american by hulk hogan

Wow that is cool

great tune having bud

@@bobprescott I never smoked it, but I bet it would be :D

@@an0ana i don't understand

I thought you meant pot, not the beer. Sorry for the confusion ♥

I went to raves in the 90's my buddy who promoted several,I backed a few with cash (insurance was needed along many things,hall rental,warehouse rentals)..I love Country Western,Rock of all era and you got it Trance(love a lot of remixes)...I even like Jazz and the Blues,rarely listen to those but still like them,usually Christmas time I get the feel for them.. Oddly as a car guy I just stick with classic Chrysler products(Mopar) 60's Dodge Charger's,70's Cuda's,Super Bee's etc...I love all types of music but one type of car.I love cruising in them with my music blasting,I have a modern hidden system in a few of them..Nothing better than driving and listening to the radio and hearing the big block Dodge V8 rumble! We have music somewhat in common and I bet I am way older than you lol..early 50's but look young & fit..Happily married and 4 kids... Have a Great Summer&Life! Remember when you feel down blast some uplifting music!! It helps!

This is one of my go to songs

I love this song. I feel it in my bones. I was in Basic training, two days after my 18th birthday in 1985.. I volunteered because I knew I wasn’t going to graduate and had no idea what to do with my life. I became a Cobra Crew Chief and it changed my life.

Great song. Great music and story. Also my favorite line dance number to Thunderfoot.

@@N21X great story! I hope you're doing well 🙂

Damn straight son.

Grandfather, ran liquor , great uncle scout in Vietnam taught dad to farm , and I'm still on the same land , southeast Kentucky

Me to buddy eastern ky

What thenfuck I didn’t know he died Glad to see the legend in Boulder before we turned into dystopian society

He is not dead still alive today

They were the last of a type of people that are no longer with us, and I miss them.

This song just brings out the drunk outlaw

That's a savage ass memory. Hell yeah. Your step dad has good taste

Good song

That feeling in our chest when this song plays? That's your Scots-Irish ancestors calling us

Hell yeah I feel the same way

My condolences to you and your family.

I'm so sorry for your loss! It sounds like you two were super close ❤ I'm sure whenever you're driving somewhere listening to this, he's right there riding with you ❤❤❤

My deepest condolences to you and you family may he rest forever in peace

I just listened to it in memory of him also

So sorry...How cool was Gramps tho!

"Come around very rarely" bro! This is heart

😉

Best thing Steve Earl ever did. Best thing the Pogues (who are his backing band on this) ever did too. Both have done other good stuff for sure. But......... Sometimes you do something so good you can't better it. Hell of a thing.

Stevies my hero i freaking love this guy

Such a terrific song.

He’s an excellent storyteller. Yes he makes you feel like you are part of the song.

Check out Chris knight

@@johnadams7678 I lived through the Viet Nam era. Charlie was the NVA. You learn how to boobytrap. Bootlegging is bootlegging. Used to be white lightning. This songs about growing weed in the hills. The whole state of Tennessee only had 2 helicopters, one of which was always broke down. Been to Haydenberg Ridge TN years ago. The folks that used to make moonshine were growing weed just to survive. They weren't greedy or getting rich. Just surviving the only way they knew how.

Very cool! Come on over! From - Alabama, USA!

John Lee Pettimore Sr ran moonshine in the Great Depression. That is why he was buying yeast and copper line. The revenue/revenuer man is trying to arrest him for selling whiskey without paying tax. "Revenue" as in Internal Revenue Service, he's a type of tax collector. He headed up the holler with everything he had - meaning he went into the "hollow", the valley where Pettimore lived. His son, John Lee Pettimore Jr, followed the tradition and ran whiskey in a big-block Dodge, a former police car with a big engine that he bought at auction. Pettimore Jr and his brother rebuilt the engine to make it more powerful. Something went wrong on his trip to Knoxville; maybe he was arrested, but since we can metaphorically smell the whiskey burning, I'd guess he crashed trying to escape police and died. John Lee Pettimore III, the singer, volunteered for the Army on his birthday. He could have done so at age 17 with parental consent, or 18 without parental consent. He did two tours of duty, meaning he spent two years actually in Vietnam. Since U.S. troops pulled out in 1972, that means he arrived no later than 1970, so he was born in 1953 at the latest. He could have arrived as early as 1965 or even earlier, meaning that the earliest he was likely born would be 1947. Pettimore III came home from Vietnam and, having presumably been exposed to drug use in the Army, decided to revive the family business by planting marijuana and using ideas from the Vietkong ("Charlie") to protect the holler from anybody who wanted to snoop. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is using a helicopter to figure out what he's doing. Maybe seeing a helicopter reminds him of military helicopters in Vietnam, because the next line says that he wakes up screaming like he's in Vietnam again. Just thought I'd explain it all in clear and alternate wordings, because I can imagine that some of the jargon might be difficult to pick up in a second language.

surely whilst drinking copperhead cider?

I want to see you in a couple of your bands and I like the music of your own 👍🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕 🐕 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕 👍🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕👍👍👍👍 from Nicholas Bickerstaff To STEVE EARL AND ONE MORE THING YOU SHOULD BE THE BEST SINGER

Nicholas Bickerstaff yep good stuff

Spin it up LOUD!

I liked it come listen to it

Hell freaking yeah!!!

Kewl

Fully agree sir

😂😊 ❤😊

@@MegaLacman not a sir..but that's cool

And 80's. This song was released in '88.

They will still love it in 3023

Sorry

@@belindaloux8354you sound like you killed him😅

2:00 😢m⁰,xxxxfffffgy

​@@jonharrison3114 ❤

I'm so sorry for your loss ♥♥

My Pop left this year too. When he was young he spent some time in SE Asia, Airborne, Army Special Forces. I wouldn't be surprised if they made small talk while they were waiting in line at The Gate. Merry Christmas-

Rip your dad. I lost mine too bro. I'm in Oz. My dad was same also. We are all now hard core. Peace bro.

blessings

thanks for that. he was an amazing story teller, so i am sure he had em laughing.

Salt lick ? Not to far from Lexington

good lad , i`ll have you cooking the good shit in no time

Are you still listening at age 23?

You just go up there and wander around.

7i67766

u dnt kno

Yes

This what made money for immigrant Americans for years and still to this day! Survival! I miss these stories.

Copperhead Road is a real road here in Johnson County, TN. People keep stealing the road signs though.

Yeah

agreed. i feel the same way in part because the scot-irish moved across the atlantic and settled in hillbilly mountain country (W Virginia, Kentucky) like they came from. nice to be able to appreciate your heritage and not be attacked for it as being not politically correct

@@texasrebelsoul1102 There's never anything wrong with celebrating your heritage. There had never been anything wrong with it. But what is wrong is insisting that yours is the best, your are or should be more superior than others because of that heritage, and others are subhuman, don't add or have anything of value, and shouldn't celebrate theirs.

@@julieporter7805 well said

Appalachian music

we had a radio show called the outlaw hours every Friday and Saturday night. It started at 9 pm and you could bet by 10 this song was coming on

Well it’s a great song. Newer country tried to add rap or other things and there’s just nothing comparable to this song.

@@koltoncrane3099 I agree. 2nd time I heard it, I called the station to ask DJ who was it. He obliged. A Ballad for real will be around for decades.

I have a Copperhead Road sign on the door of my man cave

My hubby can play & sing the hell outta this!!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I need more country rock. Recommendations?

@@glaxko2 Glad you asked! I'm 64, have a lot but I'll start with Old97's who we are going to see soon. Try songs, Murder(or a heart attack), Nineteen, Time bomb for starters. Also Poco, You better think twice and Grand Junction and Ozark Mountain Daredevils, If you want to get to Heaven. Enjoy and give me your opinion!

@@peteshallcross787 hey Pete thanks for the suggestions. A good friend of mines last name from college was Shallcross. He was from PA.

Yeah, it’s straight Outlaw Rock! I love to watch all the reactions from this amazing tune. People from every walks of life love it. Moonshine is just another part of our history, and the real stuff would only take a small bit and knock you down. I use to always keep some in my fridge with some fruit in it so it wouldn’t burn so bad going down. The real stuff will catch on fire, that’s how you know it’s real. Great tune. Will love it forever!

@@glaxko2 KOE WETZEL

Earle.... it's got a "E" at the end of his name

He was so sexy.

😮😮😮, where the fuck was I in 88 🤣🤣

1988? I thought it came out before that.

@@mmasque2052 Yes, that’s when the album was released. But I used to catch him at the clubs, quite often, in the early 80s, & I’m positive I had heard it by ‘83.

I was a 15yn yrold scaffollder best yr of my life then life realy begun oh 2 go back and change some things

makes me want to clog!!!

I have often called this "Celtic Rock". Another good one AC/DC "It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n roll". CELTIC ROCK....think about it. (and that's a hard "k", children, not a soft "s" pronunciation on Celtic!!! I don't give a damn what the Boston basketball team says!!!)

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