VDO of Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road Video Clips. Duration : 4.60 Mins.We had a good read. For the benefit of yourself. Be sure to read to the end. I want you to get good knowledge from Vietnam Veterans. Music video by Steve Earle performing Copperhead Road. (C) 1988 MCA Nashville, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. The title song "Copperhead Road" tells of a Vietnam War veteran, scion of a rural moonshine bootlegging clan, who returns home to Johnson County, Tennessee but decides instead to enter the marijuana business which is shown by the line, "I'll take the seed from Colombia and Mexico". The song references The Ballad of Thunder Road (one line mentions his father "headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load" and his mother breaking down after a visit from the sheriff). Copperhead Road was an actual road near Mountain City, Tennessee although it has since been renamed as Copperhead Hollow Rd. due to theft of road signs bearing the song's name. The song also inspired a popular line dance timed to the beat of the song. The songs on side one of the album reflect Earle's politics: the title track attacks the War on Drugs, and the song "Snake Oil" compares then president Ronald Reagan to a traveling con man and draws attention to his "legacy of creative deceit". "Johnny Come Lately" (performed with The Pogues) compares the experience of US servicemen fighting in World War II with those in the Vietnam War, and contrasts the differing receptions they received on returning home. "Back to the Wall" is about poverty. Unlike some issues-oriented musicians, however, Earle does not limit himself to political material. The second side of the album consists of apolitical works ...
What a friggin farce. Anything to push you leftist agenda.
ReplyDeleteEarle was never a soldier, let alone in Nam.