#Steve earle copperhead road midi file series

In 2018 American metal band DevilDriver recorded a version of this song on their album 'Outlaws 'til the End Vol. US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard) UK Singles ( The Official Charts Company) Ĭanada Digital Song Sales ( Billboard) Copperhead Road is the third studio album by Steve Earle, released in 1988. The music video was directed by Tony Vanden Ende and premiered in early 1988.

#Steve earle copperhead road midi file series

The song 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. The music genre and style category for this MIDI File backing track is Country. Copperhead Road was composed by Steve Earle and produced as a backing track for Hit Trax by The MIDI Karaoke Backing Tracks Production Team. He resolves not to be caught by the DEA using techniques learnt from the Viet Cong.Ĭopperhead 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. Copperhead Road Karaoke MIDI File in the style of Steve Earle Copperhead Road is a song recorded and released by Steve Earle. The snarling, stomping title track revealed him to be a kind of alt-country Bruce Springsteen, and Earle almost enters AC/DC territory on Back to the Wall, all the while unveiling the left-leaning politics that gave his growl some political. Once he returns home, he decides to use the Copperhead Road land to grow marijuana, using seeds from Colombia and Mexico. Copperhead Road was country outlaw Steve Earle’s full-fledged kiss-off to the Music City mainstream, and his love letter to rock ‘n’ roll. Pettimore enlists in the Army on his birthday, believing he will soon be drafted, and serves two tours of duty in Vietnam. himself is killed in a fiery car crash on the same road while driving to Knoxville with a weekly shipment. on Copperhead Road, intent on apprehending him for his moonshine activities, but never returned.

According to a family story, a Revenue Man once confronted John Sr. Pettimore's father hauled the moonshine to Knoxville each week in an old police cruiser he bought at a surplus auction. Pettimore's grandfather visited town only rarely, in order to buy supplies for a still he had set up in a holler along Copperhead Road. 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.