my old man made shine in italy with his dad but they called it grappa my mom is from hazard kentucky and moonshine ran deep in her veins , keepin the tradition alive northcoast california ...cheers
I lived in TN and LOVED everything about it. Awesome song and awesome Photos. Never had the guts to try the moonshine, cops set up roadblocks everywhere looking for drugs and drunk drivers. Made us pour out our beers and let us go.
Probably one of the greatest songs ever written. It's a good one to listen to while doing 90 through the backwoods in a beat up chevy. Much love from the south Georgia bayou.
"I'll never forget where I come from... Some will shun their hillbilly ways and say that that isn't them. That's okay cause out of them hills came real men."
I had to move out of the hills for work, since they done the war on coal and lost my job, and miss it every day. But the one good thing that came from it is my kids and I married a Filipino, so I call my kids Fil-billies
I live in the middle of "creeklicker" country. Lots of Scot-Irish here in Scotland County, North Carolina. We're satisfied. Love this music and song.....
I am a old man and have been all over and have seen most things of interest but before I pass on I still would like to drink one drink of some real "shine". Everyone seems to know where to get it but so far I have not been able to find the real thing. Life is full of dissapointments.......
A lot of years since this was posted...gotta appreciate UA-cam's electronic brain for surprising me with it... Growing up in (very) Hillbilly rural central British Columbia in the 1960s, quite understandably Copperhead Road became an instant favourite...we didn't call our little valley a holler, and the road didn't have such a cool name, but the rest....pretty much spot on.... Mr. Coupland, this is an amazing version, incredibly well done, and a wonderful tribute to Steve Earle's efforts. It is raw and rough around the edges, but that is what makes it so cool, and how it invokes memories from 60 years ago....very nicely done.
Just saw the new movie LAWLESS...great movie about the Prohibition era. Them Bondurant Brothers were a force to be reckoned with! We need more men like them now a days as the FEDS have gotten a bit to big for their britches...
Don't drink myself, but gotta agree about them Feds. They need their chain yanked. I love this song ---thi nk Steve Earle's version is better, but this one is very good.
No, the words have a different meaning than what is said. A lot of people think it's about moonshiners. But it's more about doing what you have to to live. It's not always about working for someone else.
i was born in the south raised in the south and will die in the south i am very proud of my heritage hard working loyal christian faithful to god 1st family 2nd and country if that makes me a racist or wrong then im am i never judge someone on color but on the actions that they do so judge me for mine
i work in a prohibitive time,just different product,but its the same,looking out for the law,looking out for thieves and doing the bandit runs.Long live the outlaw. by the way brother you do this amazingly well,could be a record your that good,take it easy cuz.
My great grandpa ran whiskey up in the Ozarks and sold whiskey to pretty boy Floyd way back in the day I myself have started producing my own brew in his footsteps wish I could have met you Grandpa
Look for the Foxfire book series about mountain people...in one of those, it explains how to build your own still from scratch, how to maintain it, and how to produce moonshine. Your post moved me and I hope you will track those books down, find the instructions, and produce your own. Good luck, my friend!:)
@varminthunter243 thumbs up!! and Im from Chicago -came down here on vacation since I was 2 - one month a year - moved here 8 years ago- 53 now- and love it - next stop is the Keys and then Cabo -
Good cover of the song... I love Steve Earle's version too, and have since it came out in 1988. I didn't need to wait for "Moonshiners" on Discovery. My great grandpa was a moonshiner in the hills of Virginia, and became a preacher in his later years... life is strange, isn't it? This song makes me homesick.
I am also of Scots and Irish descent and fiercely proud to hail from regions where the bravest and most steadfast freedom fighters in the world come from! And I too have some predisposition to the whiskey and tobacco. Unlike other immigrants to our fine country(where 13 signers of the declaration of independence were Scottish) the Scots and the Irish, while still proud of their ancestry were also proud of this nation they'd created instead of clinging to there homeland and pissing on the U.S.A
I'm from Bama and all my shine comes from the Carolina's . I have tried the legal shine but nothing's as good as the outlaw kind. Same thing with grass, why not just leave me alone! I'm not hurting anyone. I'm a disabled veteran and suffer from chronic pain. So give me a break! Cut me some slack jack!
My Dad who grew up in east TN way up in the mtns, my grandpa was occasionally the town's Dep Sheriff. He never wanted to be Sheriff as they had 4 Sheriffs in one month, each killed by the shiners. Dad taught me how to look for good shine. He said "shake the bottle", turn the bottle over and it there are beads at the bottom of the bottle, do not drink! Once he and his brother got into some shine and had a fine time. 'Nuff said., just remember, look for the beads and do not touch.
I just sat down and jammed out with this brother and it was a lot of fun. Thanks for putting this up, one of these blue moons I may get my own cover up. Nice job, killer song.
You did an EXCELLENT job on this! I am officially impressed. My cousins used to make moonshine here in the Appalachian hills. I have some old photos somewhere. But hell, we was all dirt poor...got to make a living somehow. Scratching the dirt for potatoes, onions and beans only goes so far. We made muscadine wine and that was legal. But I drank a bit of moonshine in my 50+ years in the hills. I like the store bought stuff better to be honest. You could use that white for paint thinner!
Great respect was given to Pop-Corn, leading with his picture in this video. The Up-loader know his shit & I thank him for not ruining a great upload, there was no other way to do it & be proper without Pop, being showcased first! 5*'s
Coolest version I've seen yet! Happy I found the sun and rain in the Philippines, brick and Police in China, my love in Saskatoon, birth in Regina, Saskatchewan at RGH and brick plant in my hometown Indian Head, Canada!
this is were NASCAR originated. im learning this song on the mandolin. all two chords. (dont pay no attention to the haters. hope i can do it that good some day )
If you take the first picture, add 16 inches of snow and move the neighbours to a minimum of a mile away add a mile of forest on the 3 miles to school you get close to where I grew up. Does that give you a clue why I like this song?
I beg to differ. This version is straight up country and southern. ... Southern prime that is and I hail from Tennessee and with that said this version is fantastic.
My compliments to you folks in Tennessee where this is legal. Just as soon as I get the motor fixed in the van plan on making a visit to your state to taste some of it.....
Thanks for the offer. I live in the Southwest part of Missouri. I don't want you to get into trouble and I have no plans on spending my last years in a fun house somewhere. Just have one for me. Maybe someday I will find some around here somewhere. Thanks again.
Haha! My friend brought some on a ride. It felt like I had been set on fire burning from the inside out. I tried a different kind later, and I love it! I'm never having that kind again. Not sure what it was but I'll be sure of that.
Thanks. I will look for the Foxfire books. I was about to drive to Tennessee since I guess it is sold everywhere there but to be able to make my own would be somethig else. Since I live on a busy street 5 blocks from the police station it might get interesting for one of them to drive by and see me running a still in the garage. I have heard that it don't take much of it to knock your socks off but to be honest that is one of the last few things on my so called bucket list. drink one for me.
my old man made shine in italy with his dad but they called it grappa my mom is from hazard kentucky and moonshine ran deep in her veins , keepin the tradition alive northcoast california ...cheers
I lived in TN and LOVED everything about it. Awesome song and awesome Photos. Never had the guts to try the moonshine, cops set up roadblocks everywhere looking for drugs and drunk drivers. Made us pour out our beers and let us go.
Thxxx
Probably one of the greatest songs ever written. It's a good one to listen to while doing 90 through the backwoods in a beat up chevy. Much love from the south Georgia bayou.
"I'll never forget where I come from... Some will shun their hillbilly ways and say that that isn't them. That's okay cause out of them hills came real men."
I had to move out of the hills for work, since they done the war on coal and lost my job, and miss it every day. But the one good thing that came from it is my kids and I married a Filipino, so I call my kids Fil-billies
I live in the middle of "creeklicker" country. Lots of Scot-Irish here in Scotland County, North Carolina. We're satisfied. Love this music and song.....
Thanks for so many reasons....the past we come from leads to who we are now;. This gave as much truth as a 60-minute PBS special.
My Grandad ran "white lightning" thur Parsons Tn, across all around middle Tn..... Yes I am Proud of him!!!!
The pipes add soooo much! Love this version. Thank you.
I am a old man and have been all over and have seen most things of interest but before I pass on I still would like to drink one drink of some real "shine". Everyone seems to know where to get it but so far I have not been able to find the real thing. Life is full of dissapointments.......
Strong Galic influence, to honor the Irish roots of the moonshiners. Very enjoyable. Thnx
A lot of years since this was posted...gotta appreciate UA-cam's electronic brain for surprising me with it...
Growing up in (very) Hillbilly rural central British Columbia in the 1960s, quite understandably Copperhead Road became an instant favourite...we didn't call our little valley a holler, and the road didn't have such a cool name, but the rest....pretty much spot on....
Mr. Coupland, this is an amazing version, incredibly well done, and a wonderful tribute to Steve Earle's efforts. It is raw and rough around the edges, but that is what makes it so cool, and how it invokes memories from 60 years ago....very nicely done.
country folks rock.....i,m home sick now....take me home country roads....
nicely done video, got a jar of shine in the frig that a neighbor dropped off.
Wee Doggies
A New Hampshire Yankee in Central Kentucky
The bagpipe intro was totally awesome!
Love the bag pipes and outlaws, proud to be a scott.
I Agree,Love the Bagpipes and the pictures of Popcorn.
Just saw the new movie LAWLESS...great movie about the Prohibition era. Them Bondurant Brothers were a force to be reckoned with! We need more men like them now a days as the FEDS have gotten a bit to big for their britches...
Don't drink myself, but gotta agree about them Feds. They need their chain yanked. I love this song ---thi nk Steve Earle's version is better, but this one is very good.
No, the words have a different meaning than what is said. A lot of people think it's about moonshiners. But it's more about doing what you have to to live. It's not always about working for someone else.
My Dad ran liquor down out of the hills on an Indian motorcycle in the late 20's and early 30's into Madera California...
Ready to go back to my heritage.
i was born in the south raised in the south and will die in the south i am very proud of my heritage hard working loyal christian faithful to god 1st family 2nd and country if that makes me a racist or wrong then im am i never judge someone on color but on the actions that they do so judge me for mine
Not one thing wrong with this comment.Looks like Southern Heritage to Me.
Arkansas here too. Great song!
As a big Steve fan, I have to say this is a very decent version. Very decent indeed, superior even. Thanks for posting it and keep up the good work.
Very good but I wouldn't say better.
There is also a copperhead road in mountain city Tennessee. Its a road that dead ends in the mountain forest.
Classic country!!
Hard not to start dancing to this...
wow this is a great version. You rock. Thank you.
cool dance for this song....I can't do it, but I enjoy watching the people who can lol
I seen Popcorn Sutton in Pigeon Forge TN. He was at a festival giving samples of his shine!!
i work in a prohibitive time,just different product,but its the same,looking out for the law,looking out for thieves and doing the bandit runs.Long live the outlaw.
by the way brother you do this amazingly well,could be a record your that good,take it easy cuz.
I like your cover. Really first class performance. I like the video too.
My great grandpa ran whiskey up in the Ozarks and sold whiskey to pretty boy Floyd way back in the day I myself have started producing my own brew in his footsteps wish I could have met you Grandpa
Great Pics..Thxs for sharing
Great idea to put this song with the old pictures---LOVE IT!
love from.ireland to our brothers n sisters in America.
I'm hearing my Scot-Irish roots :) WV here.
Look for the Foxfire book series about mountain people...in one of those, it explains how to build your own still from scratch, how to maintain it, and how to produce moonshine. Your post moved me and I hope you will track those books down, find the instructions, and produce your own. Good luck, my friend!:)
Thanks for putting this up.... it's one of my very favorite songs cheers mate
Very nice video. I love the old Moonshiner images very well put together video.
@varminthunter243 thumbs up!! and Im from Chicago -came down here on vacation since I was 2 - one month a year - moved here 8 years ago- 53 now- and love it - next stop is the Keys and then Cabo -
Great video and even better version. love your voice
Good cover of the song... I love Steve Earle's version too, and have since it came out in 1988. I didn't need to wait for "Moonshiners" on Discovery. My great grandpa was a moonshiner in the hills of Virginia, and became a preacher in his later years... life is strange, isn't it? This song makes me homesick.
Popcorn Sutton (RIP) was a moonshiner. Damn good one too.
I am also of Scots and Irish descent and fiercely proud to hail from regions where the bravest and most steadfast freedom fighters in the world come from! And I too have some predisposition to the whiskey and tobacco. Unlike other immigrants to our fine country(where 13 signers of the declaration of independence were Scottish) the Scots and the Irish, while still proud of their ancestry were also proud of this nation they'd created instead of clinging to there homeland and pissing on the U.S.A
Nice cover....loved the pics of Popcorn!
great job..I love this song.Thanks for sharing.
I was today years old when I found out that this isn’t the original. Hot damn good job fella!
Very nice, from Arkansas and rings of home!!
Good stuff man. You really carried it. Post as many of these as you want.
Love this tune thanks for posting ....
I'm from Bama and all my shine comes from the Carolina's . I have tried the legal shine but nothing's as good as the outlaw kind. Same thing with grass, why not just leave me alone! I'm not hurting anyone. I'm a disabled veteran and suffer from chronic pain. So give me a break! Cut me some slack jack!
My Dad who grew up in east TN way up in the mtns, my grandpa was occasionally the town's Dep Sheriff. He never wanted to be Sheriff as they had 4 Sheriffs in one month, each killed by the shiners. Dad taught me how to look for good shine. He said "shake the bottle", turn the bottle over and it there are beads at the bottom of the bottle, do not drink! Once he and his brother got into some shine and had a fine time. 'Nuff said., just remember, look for the beads and do not touch.
HELL YEAH!!! Tumbs up on your awesome version...
I just sat down and jammed out with this brother and it was a lot of fun. Thanks for putting this up, one of these blue moons I may get my own cover up. Nice job, killer song.
You did an EXCELLENT job on this! I am officially impressed. My cousins used to make moonshine here in the Appalachian hills. I have some old photos somewhere. But hell, we was all dirt poor...got to make a living somehow. Scratching the dirt for potatoes, onions and beans only goes so far. We made muscadine wine and that was legal. But I drank a bit of moonshine in my 50+ years in the hills. I like the store bought stuff better to be honest. You could use that white for paint thinner!
I love it too. Great selection of photos also.
@guibanjolinman Great version man. Your singing is excellent, and the song is great.
Beside all comments about moonshine, something we can`t understand in Europe :0, I love this song and I like Steve Earls music.
Great respect was given to Pop-Corn, leading with his picture in this video. The Up-loader know his shit & I thank him for not ruining a great upload, there was no other way to do it & be proper without Pop, being showcased first!
5*'s
You did good on this,friend! Damned good!
Back at ya WV all the way home!!
Coolest version I've seen yet! Happy I found the sun and rain in the Philippines, brick and Police in China, my love in Saskatoon, birth in Regina, Saskatchewan at RGH and brick plant in my hometown Indian Head, Canada!
My uncle made his fortune moon shining in South Dakota ... back then it was called feeding your family
this is were NASCAR originated. im learning this song on the mandolin. all two chords.
(dont pay no attention to the haters. hope i can do it that good some day )
Didnt expect to see a picture of pop corn Sutton. thanks for posting
Blare this song when I play it !! Reminds me of my daddy the moonshine man ;)
great tribute to the best there was POPCORN!
R.I.P...Popcorn.. and may the mash be sweet bro.
Awsome song good dance
At my last day of school party they played this song and we all,rocked this songs dance
The family legacy right here
Great cover . Nice pics as well .
If you take the first picture, add 16 inches of snow and move the neighbours to a minimum of a mile away add a mile of forest on the 3 miles to school you get close to where I grew up.
Does that give you a clue why I like this song?
I understand i grew up 2 miles away from the actual copper head road in Fairview TN
I beg to differ. This version is straight up country and southern.
... Southern prime that is and I hail from Tennessee and with that said this version is fantastic.
Good way to start a day..........keeps the blues away .
+mark bing while listening to it .... then Again maybe it is Moonshine blues at Heart !
I Love People From TN. & Ga. My Roots Run Deep .Join Us
My compliments to you folks in Tennessee where this is legal. Just as soon as I get the motor fixed in the van plan on making a visit to your state to taste some of it.....
Love these songs
How am I only discovering this awesome version just now. Better late than never I guess.🥃
Praise The LORD & Pass The Ammunition!
Sounds like Home to me!
Me to.(: Proud to be a country girl.(;
Thanks for the offer. I live in the Southwest part of Missouri. I don't want you to get into trouble and I have no plans on spending my last years in a fun house somewhere. Just have one for me. Maybe someday I will find some around here somewhere. Thanks again.
I'm in the south of Henderson County where I was born and raised! Right at the North Side of Dark Corners!
wow this is a great version. You rock
man I miss songs like this
I love the photos, like I was there!
Cool version of a cool song. I love it!
I remember packing sugar n corn through the pike co ky hills for my father .......god bless the moonshiner
Haha! My friend brought some on a ride. It felt like I had been set on fire burning from the inside out. I tried a different kind later, and I love it! I'm never having that kind again. Not sure what it was but I'll be sure of that.
Excellent.
not just LIFE gettn by . . . living country and loving it making there way any way they know how wow i need to right a song about that ! lol
Sounds good!!! Thumbs up to ya!
very nice version. Newton Co. Ark. in the house
Beautiful song
Thanks. I will look for the Foxfire books. I was about to drive to Tennessee since I guess it is sold everywhere there but to be able to make my own would be somethig else. Since I live on a busy street 5 blocks from the police station it might get interesting for one of them to drive by and see me running a still in the garage. I have heard that it don't take much of it to knock your socks off but to be honest that is one of the last few things on my so called bucket list. drink one for me.
Great version of a great song.
good ol song
Not too bad of a cover, nice work
This song set me and my girl up for our first kiss. this is the best song ever
So well put together, thanks a lot.
My grandpa's been moonshining for over 40 years, maybe I'll carry it on
I liked this.
great version you rock