Got it backwards .................. it was the Government man, that never came back.

@davidpinnix7339

Ай бұрын

And the truck didn't blowup.... He was on a delivery haul, when the revenue man burnt down the still

@davidpinnix7339

Ай бұрын

There are roads in the U.S. Named copperhead rd

@bobsylvester88

Ай бұрын

@@davidpinnix7339I always thought the song implied his dad was killed in a police chase. His mom is crying.

@robertsabo5658

Ай бұрын

You got it backwards it wasn't the government man that didn't come back. It was his granddad and dad that didn't come back from copperhead road

@catherineday951

Ай бұрын

​@@bobsylvester88dad was making his regular run and his still was destroyed while he was gone

Maybe I’m wrong, but I’ve never considered Steve Earle country music. I’ve always thought of him as southern rock! It’s still a great song!

@Titanic1912..

Ай бұрын

I agree. Definitely not country. Steve Earle is definitely awesome tho. ❤

@johnvetere

Ай бұрын

I use to hear it on country stations. Great song either way!!

@kurtschmidt9760

Ай бұрын

Yes kinda southern rock. A little bluegrass also for me.

@seansersmylie

Ай бұрын

Earle most certainly is country music! It's just that 90% of country music is rubbish that gives the genre a bad name.

@jbc_8110

Ай бұрын

You haven’t listened to much Steve Earle and you aren’t really knowledgeable about Red dirt and Texas country

I’m a former DEA agent who now lives in the Knoxville area. There are hollows around the South you just don’t go into…

@dustinloudermilk4349

Ай бұрын

Your 100% Correct I'm from such a place...

@phildicks4721

Ай бұрын

Back in the late 80s/early 90s I went to college in Kentucky. There were even warnings about when visiting State Parks to stay on the trails because pot farmers were planting their crops in the parks and setting up booby traps. I wasn't 100% believing it, but just in case it was true, I'd stay on the trails when hiking.

@ianjardine7324

Ай бұрын

​@@justinentz-ip7blThe ones slinging meth will end badly. Alcohol and weed only annoy the government and that amuses your neighbours but meth pisses everyone off.

@southsidepatrol66

Ай бұрын

Yep... And the further south you come...those swamps are dark and deep, gators and razorbacks keep good secrets

@savinghistory642

Ай бұрын

grew up around moonshiners in the 60's. heard stories about how collaborators were handled. depending on who you were betraying your comeuppance was different. one guy took a sledgehammer to both legs and threw the tattler in the hog pen alive. he really enjoyed it. if you were lucky you were dead before you went in but you went in. and you spilled your guts first-sometimes literally.

no this is the story of three generations. two were moonshiners, and he grew pot. he's proud of his family.

@leftcoaster67

Ай бұрын

More Rockabilly than country.

@4thlinemaniac356

Ай бұрын

Correct about the introduction of weed into America via the Vietnam War.

@4thlinemaniac356

Ай бұрын

@Bonus @Jenny Constantine channel Year Of The Dragon video.

@dardell2001

25 күн бұрын

@@4thlinemaniac356 There was a weed boom due to Vietnam but it was here and regularly smoked back in the Colony days. Washington and others grew both Hemp & pot for use and export.

@4thlinemaniac356

25 күн бұрын

@@dardell2001 I know plus cocaine in stores etc but the song is about the introduction to the people So what occurred to ban make it illegal? @Jenny Constantine channel Year of the Dragon video

Copperhead Road is an actual place in the mountains of East Tennessee.

@josephhabermann6723

Ай бұрын

Live not far from there. But they changed the Rd name so they wouldn't have to constantly replace street signs.

@Reshtarc

Ай бұрын

Yup it's just down the road a bit from here. but they changes the name due to everyone stealing the street signs.

@johnjackson54

Ай бұрын

And a fun ride

@davidstick9207

Ай бұрын

Heard him share this...but we have one in eastern Kentucky...with the same stories. I was delivering catfish for the F&W with this old timer...no teeth...smelled. We broke off the hwy...and he laughed...said buckle up...we go fast through here cause the moonshiners will shoot at us and we don't want to lose the fish. Say fucking what? The stories he shared that week blew me away

@GilbertdeClare0704

Ай бұрын

a place you don't go if'n you ain't invited !😉😉

The jump scare at the beginning was hilarious

@Stubby24525921

Ай бұрын

That jump scare is one of the funniest things I have ever seen

@phantompower

Ай бұрын

No word of a lie I replayed that over ten times, tears were flowing I was laughing so hard. 😭

Gotta know the life. i am a 60 year old southern white man. My daddy ran shine in the carolinas in the40's and ealry 50's until he got his girlfriend pregnat and left to join the military. He went to Korea the son went to vietnam. he married my mother and moved back to NC. i grew up on shine stories pot stories most of my friends were in the trade in the 70's 80's. Steve earle is southern rock outlaw country. This song is about generational trauma drugs and fighting the goverment. The one who died and disapperaed first is the treasurery agent and then they came for thefamily.. Oh and Copperhead road is a real place in the the south in Appalachia.

@danarussell1291

Ай бұрын

❤ your story!!

@user-un1wt2sd4w

Ай бұрын

Yep know the life. My grandfather built his house with the money made from running shine. I grew up in the late 80's. When people asked me why I left the area I grew up in i'd say there were only 2 ways for a young man from that county to make a living: growth and distribution of illegal substances or leave the county. I always considered this song to be an anthem for me and my friends.

@cydrych

Ай бұрын

@@chitownlivingston7007you completely misunderstood what was said by the OP.

@gumshoe2273

Ай бұрын

Mom's side were moonshiners in Tennessee back in the day. Two great uncles did prison time over it. My cousins still make the family recipe...for personal use.

@cuttnhorse2013

Ай бұрын

The real story is all from real places and roads in East Tennessee.

"I'm gonna listen to some country music." Immediately proceeds to listen to Steve Earle's first rock record. 😂

As a guy who lives in east Tennessee Copperhead Road is a very real place and you still don't want to go there unless you know someone there.

@javabeanz8549

4 күн бұрын

kinda like parts of the West, you better know someone, because you are walking into a grow...

@voicesoftheoutworld3617

14 сағат бұрын

@@justinS8522 the trick being how can you get to know someone there if you don't go there. It's a catch 22 that just means that you're screwed regardless.

Steve Earle is in a genre by himself.

They were also burning moonshine for fuel. That’s why you could smell it. It’s also what led to the beginnings of NASCAR.

@savinghistory642

Ай бұрын

never knew anyone who would put a $10 dollar a gallon moonshine in the tank of a car when gas was 25 cents a gallon.

@maxhames499

Ай бұрын

Tuned , it ran faster on alcohol. Alcohol is still used today in race engines. Cooler too.

@bradleyhollon6085

Ай бұрын

​@@savinghistory642a shiner defenetly would the shine would make much more power than pump gas by itsself

@JuliaAMPaul

Ай бұрын

A 5th in the tank behind the ethanol ;)

@savinghistory642

Ай бұрын

@@bradleyhollon6085 speed was only a factor in the delivery. the point was to stay under the radar as much as possible. driving a car with moonshine fumes coming from the exhaust would not be a good idea.

When this came out in the 80's it wasn't played on country stations, it was played on rock stations, atleast in my area.

@rebeccam439

6 күн бұрын

Same

No grandpa knocked off off the government man

@savinghistory642

Ай бұрын

and the hogs et him

@user-qp6pz5gq4e

Ай бұрын

Now Now let's not talk out of turn revenuer just got lost ,and it's possible that a bear might have got him ,or snake ,pointing fingers isn't going to help anyone.

@user-ow6zw5xe6j

Ай бұрын

@@user-qp6pz5gq4e LOL yeah those guys just wandered off in the hollow and got lost

@user-qp6pz5gq4e

Ай бұрын

Listen now all I'm saying is accidents happen all the time, and there's no reason for any deeper investigation needed it's just one of those things.

@user-ow6zw5xe6j

Ай бұрын

@@user-qp6pz5gq4e YUP S*** HAPPENS in the hollows

This album was a staple in the metal community in the late 80s and 90s, he had made the leap so beautifully to being multi-genre, and we loved it.

@johnny.d.1930

Ай бұрын

I saw Steve play at Lalapalooza. On the same stage with Metallica, Sound Garden, and the Ramones. The crowd warmed up to him after this song.

This is the greatest southern rock song ever sung. My grandfather was from Western NC and made moonshine during Prohibition. You are such a beautiful woman. Your skin makes me cry.

He planted "seeds from Columbia or Mexico", some of that wacky weed, and he learned a thing or 2 from Charlie (viet cong), meaning he set booby traps around it.

@user-un1wt2sd4w

Ай бұрын

Yep. Playing in the woods around my home town you learn to pick up on some interesting signs. An out of place stick across a dirt road leading into the deep woods. Leave it alone, its there to let the grower know if a car other than his came in and out.

@earlwyss520

Ай бұрын

And river cane commonly found in the south and Appalachian mountains is an excellent naitve substitute for the bamboo that the cong used.

@reb1050

Ай бұрын

I'm 74 yrs. old and, sadly, I have outlived all of the close friends of my late teens and throughout my 20's and beyond.. But i remember them well. Especially those that went to Viet Nam. There were a number of them that came back with that brand new plan as well. Their stomping grounds were in the Ouachita Mountains of Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. I remember the acres of marijuana patches scattered in various areas (covered with camouflage nets) and the booby traps they deployed in the area. The most common were punji stakes and cartridge traps (google it). Although I never grew any myself, I did assist my friends/brothers-in-arms in setting out the traps. I must add that, throughout that brief period in time, I never heard of any of those traps being encountered.

@connorallgood0922

22 күн бұрын

The Vietnam reference was more talking about how the Vietnam War led to a spike of weed use here, idk if it necessarily was talking about booby traps.

@gregoryrush3878

12 күн бұрын

I may or may not have been farmed out to a 3 letter agency once upon a time, and we learned everything there is to know about growing pot, and also the kind of traps to look for when in the area. Mostly light anti-personnel stuff meant to injure, not kill. Primarily they were intended to scare off hikers and such from going near their "farms".

From the 40s through the 70s three of my uncles on my mom's side made moonshine and two uncles on my dad's side made bootleg beer and wine. It made us kids laugh that they all got so riled up about weed. Little did they know that the older kids planted seeds from Colombia and Mexico a couple of acres behind the stills. The local law enforcement knew all about the stills and even drank moonshine with my uncles. The weed was never discovered because no one bothered the stills and the cops saw no need to go near them. One thing I know for sure is that *You Never Go Near Working Stills, NEVER!* Don't mess with the crops either. These entrepreneurs don't play.

Copperhead Road is a real place.

Yeah, you have it backwards. "Copperhead road" is a road, typically in the south, that everyone knows what happens down that road, but you don't go there unless you're invited. That's what the song is about. And those "roads" are still alive today down here. ;)

@savinghistory642

Ай бұрын

i live on one and no one has ever come down it that did not belong. herd of feral hogs too. dead end road lined with the skulls of some of them in varying stages of decay. we salt and preserve the flesh in crocks. the electric company calls before they come to check the meter. always someone on sentry duty. safest place in the county.

@rogerscurlock2927

6 күн бұрын

You also have it wrong. The road referenced in the song is a real road. It's in Mountain City, TN. Which is in Johnson County. I understand the sentiment you're getting at. There are plenty of places here in Appalachia that are no-go areas if you don't belong there. However, in the song, Copperhead Rd isn't an abstract term used to describe the many similar places. It's describing a single specific place. (The road name was changed to Copperhead Hollow Rd to deter people from stealing the sign.)

@taz291819

6 күн бұрын

@@rogerscurlock2927 Learn something new every day. Thanks for the info.

Tom Mcdonald is one Canadian who loves America more than a lot of Americans so sad. I'm a 54 year old fan of Tom and I love what he speaks

@steveblythe3544

Ай бұрын

50 here I agree

Actually Lilly, there is and was a Copperhead Rd. Famous for moonshine etc. A few years after this song hit they had to change the name of the Road because people kept stealing the road signs. Grandpa didn't die up there, it was the Govt man who never came back. Daddy did die when his car wrecked while he was making a run with his illegal booze. John Lee the 3rd may still be there selling his products LOL.

@vickiroman189

Ай бұрын

I used to live on High Street. Of course those signs didn't last more than 12 hours either :-)

@savinghistory642

Ай бұрын

more like the 5th teaching the 6th to keep the tradition going. you can bet there is a still there, too. we scots-irish keep a jar of shine on the kitchen table like a condiment.

@drunkbillygoat

12 күн бұрын

I may know someone who got one of those signs

No he said the government man never came back from copperhead road

Steve Earle is more like Southern Rock than country. Kinda like Georgia Satellites, another great older band. Check ‘em out. 👍❤️

@keithdean9149

Ай бұрын

Outlaw Country

Lifelong metalhead here. Discovered this song a few months ago. It's an epic of 'Americana'. Bought the album, really great.

@mb-fs1yo

Ай бұрын

Only “country” album I own, bought it shortly after it came out.

Just an old Alabama shiner listening to my family history in a great tune ! Peace and love God bless America call sign firedog out !

Jump scare at the start worth it for a bangin tune 😂😂👌👌

This is still happening in the mountains today and will never stop. He planted weed up and down Copperhead Rd.

@user-un1wt2sd4w

Ай бұрын

Now days it's meth labs around my area

@Buddha-of8fk

Ай бұрын

@@user-un1wt2sd4w l think that's everywhere.

@samanthaspringman5527

29 күн бұрын

The pot copters spraying Paraguay won't help. I wonder how long it's going to take people to connect some direct illnesses and sue the government for spraying airborne poison.

Petition to make Copperhead Road the National Anthem...just throwing it out there.

@celesterose12523

18 күн бұрын

Got my vote 💯

Steve Earle, An American Hero. Love This Guy.

Yes she has definitely got this song backwards! This is a southern rock song ! And later in the 90’S the country western people started to line dance to this song

@johnny.d.1930

Ай бұрын

The movie Coyote Ugly ruined the song for most fans.

@johnny.d.1930

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, Steve Earl got political, and his music got way too bluesy.

As a Tennessean, I grew up in the heart of Appalachia, and country music is still a staple among many of us. You mentioned the story line. I think the best country songs are the ones that tell a story.

This is practically my family song!! Im glad to see one of my favorite reactors reacting to it!!

Lilly Jane, Copperhead Road IS an actual place that Steve wrote about it’s near Mountain City, Tennessee, in an area that the locals call “Big Dry Run”. It was known as a bootleggers road from the 1930s up until the 1970s.

He's one of the great Troubadours along with John Prine and Guy Clark all of these are worthy of your time I'd love to hear your reaction to the cape

There is a lot more truth to that song than you will ever know. Copperhead Road was real in Johnson County, TN. They renamed it... Lot of history happened there.

My dad made me....MADE ME love this. I ACTUALLY LOVE STEVE.

Cooperhead road is a real place.

Country music is legendary for its storytelling

Any song that starts with bagpipes and mandolin has got to be cool.

One of my favorite songs !

I get hammered drunk to this song lmao

Steve Earle is a national treasure. Thank You Lilly...Again! Always great reactions!

@robertday1671

Ай бұрын

How do i go by sending her a music video request?

Well Lilly, looks like you pretty much got the WHOLE TRUTH of this song. And maybe more too lol. That’s ok, cuz I’m in agreement with a few. And they said your “ Jump scare” was worth the whole song!! So I’m gonna just agree with that. Love your hair, as always. And keep a rockin girl!! Play what you want, country, Rock. I’m here for it!! Please tell your husband, from The Stone Family in Billings Montana , THANK YOU SIR, NOT JUST YOUR SERVICE, BUT WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEART, SOUL, COURAGE, and ABOVE ALL ELSE, YOUR LOVE! And Thank you Lilly. As a man who raised 2 daughters, I know your husband is a special guy!

best song to crank it UP EVER!!!

My grandpa lived this life back in the 1920s until the late 1940s. Just trying to feed his kids and not die in the coal mine. The White Lightning trail runs right through the center of town here where I live in Tennessee. It was also definitely the revenuer who didn't come back. The verse says "the revenue man wanted granddaddy bad, headed up the holler with everything he had, before my time but I've been told, he never came back from copperhead road. " He headed up the holler, and he never came back from Copperhead road. It's a take on the words from Rocky Top, which says "Once two strangers climbed ole Rocky Top, lookin' for a moonshine still, strangers ain't came down from Rocky Top, reckon they never will."

I love country. Yehaw! :) Good jump scare :D

I was in the army with a guy who's family are real moonshiners in South Tennessee. Brought a Mason jar full of some to the barracks, very strong but surprisingly smooth.

Some us all got dealt a bad hand since this started, miss. We're still here. Peace.

they had to take the sign down for COPPER HEAD ROAD down and change the name of the road. fans were going down there to take the sign as keep sakes.

@josephcrowe2908

Ай бұрын

It's an actual place and an actual snake. 2 things can be true at once.

@RLKmedic0315

Ай бұрын

I have one of those road signs. I went to college at Appalachian State and we took a road trip to Mountain City TN and swiped a sign. That was 26 years ago, lol. The sign is in my garage right now. But the name of the road has changed, it's now "Copperhead Hollow Rd."

@vickiroman189

Ай бұрын

I used to live on High Street. Of course those signs didn't last more than 12 hours either :-)

@paulknopf8461

25 күн бұрын

Just like where I'm from we had a road 420 and they finally changed it to 426 so that the signs would stay put.

Thus is a perfect example of Southern rock.

The Tennessee state song, Rocky Top has a line "once two strangers climbed old Rocky Top, looking for a moonshine still. Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top, reckon they never will". So our state song actually talks about government agents getting disappeared for getting too close to where moonshine was made. An old Marine friend who's moms family was from Sevier county in East Tennessee, once asked his grandmother, "Grandma, do we make shine?". He said she got a cold hard look on her face and said "Boy, what we do with our corn is our business". And he never mentioned it again. Also, you are mistaken about the part that says "you could smell the whiskey burning". That meant the revenuer agents burned the stills after arresting everyone.

My father was from North Carolina…told me as a kid to not cross the fence line. You could get shot from the men Running the stills…said during prohibition that the revenuers ran the stills.

THERE IS A CHICK THAT ADDS A LITTLE SISTER TO ANOTHER VERSE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF COPPERHEAD ROAD. IT'S ON U-TUBE.

Others have explained the first verse (Grandpa made the regulator man disappear) pretty good, so I'll jump to the second.... Daddy and his uncle tore the engine of the Dodge down to convert it to run on alcohol instead of gasoline. Then they ran moonshine from Copperhead Rd to Knoxville in the "gas tank" of the Dodge. This is actually how NASCAR got it's start. 3rd verse, he gets back from Vietnam and instead of making moonshine like his dad and grandpa, he grows weed. (The seeds from Colombia and Mexico.) He sends out a warning not to come around his crops on Copperhead Rd because he's boobie-trapped the area using the tricks he learned from "Charlie" -the name given to the Viet Cong during the war.

@user-un1wt2sd4w

Ай бұрын

Don't know how they worked in your neck of the woods but around here they would have never switched out the fuel. You'd be burning your product instead of making money from it. And it would look real suspicious never stopping at the filling station but still driving around town.

@savinghistory642

Ай бұрын

actually a shine car was stripped of everything but the drivers seat. every square inch that could held product. the car sat so low when loaded that there was no reason to obey and traffic laws as it was obvious what was going on. you left out running as fast as it could go until you made your delivery or died one. drove home normally and put the shine car in the barn where it was made ready for the next run. far as i know that is all it was used for. gas was put in it from a gas can. daddy worked as an electrician through the week, ran shine Friday after dark and was home in time time for breakfast Saturday. Saturday was the day they went over the engine with a fine toothed comb and on Sunday we went fishing after church.

@roberttaylor5997

Ай бұрын

Tore the engine down means they took it apart (and then rebuilt it). The rumbling sound is the way the engine sounds after they retuned it to run like a race car (and/or converted it to run on alcohol, I wasn't aware of that aspect before reading the comments here).

Missed it, my dear!

The newest official state song of Tennessee

no-grandad knocked off the government men.

An amazing song!

Steve has been through a COUPLE of substances and chilled out into more or less sobriety. Some of the earlier wasted, twisted stuff is quite awesome, this is in spite of the chemicals, not BECAUSE of them.

It’s about rebellion -- it’s about being true to our Scottish Irish Heritage

This is one along the lines of The Devil Went Down to Georgia and still gets played on both classic country and classic rock radio stations. Great reaction.

Heavy Celtic influence in this song too . I really love the story telling, so vivid . Great reaction btw

Call it what you want, it's still great country and/or great rock. Great reaction Lilly!

Fun fact: copperhead road is a real place and it was the government man that never came back from copperhead road

I am from the mountains of north Georgia. This song is the real deal. Son there are lots of deep abandoned wells in these mountains. Don't mess around up there. Great advice from my grandpa. The best friend I ever had. RIP

Huge Steve Earle fan. He collaborated with Emmylou Harris, the Pogues, Supersuckers, Del McCoury Band and many more

When that song comes on I can’t help but think it’s midnight and everyone is getting on the dance floor

I'm a heavy rock/metal fan but I consider the Copperhead Road album to be one of the greatest ever made.

Never considered this country music. Always thought of it as Southern Rock.

I've driven Copperhead road. Johnson County Tennessee. I was born near the old Thunder Road near Cumberland Gap.

That jump scare was awesome! No, he was saying that Grandad ended the agent.

Love your takes on the music you review

Steve is awesome.he is a great story teller. He is outlaw country. Country with a little bit of rock thrown in there. Sometimes you hear some blues or like in this song, some blue grass as well. And lilly you are absolutely gorgeous. ❤ A dream girl for sure. Much love and respect from Kentucky!!

We used to use 'shine as gas when we ran out! And the engine actually ran! It knocked all to hell - but it ran!

Copperhead Road is an actual place in Johnson County Tennessee. The Pettimores lived there and were moonshiners. Dad got killed in a car wreck, where he's talking about heading down to Knoxville (Tn.) with a wicked load.

Copper Head Road is a very real place in Johnson County TN

I've not seen a "reaction" video like that before. I had to laugh when you jumped.

Most important line he says is "i kearned a thing or two from Charlie Dont you know" meaning he learned how to set up hidden traps from the vietnamese enemy code named Charlieso he feels better prepared for getting away

I promise it's a real place

"Billy Austin" by Steve Earle is a spooky good song. Also, If you like the war veteran folk story aspect, "Johnny Come Lately" by Steve Earle featuring The Pogues is really well written and a lot of fun. It talks about WW2 in London, and The Pogues are a British band.

I have loved this song, and Steve, for more than 30 years, but I have never seen him until this.

I’m from Mississippi, my great granddaddy ran a still for years back in our hollers, he finally got busted

Steve Earl was multi-genre. I heard of him on hard rock stations when I was like 20.

Copperhead rd is here in my home county. It is a real location. Johnson County TN.

Copperhead Road is absolutely a real place. It's in Johnson County Tennessee, just outside of a small town called Mountain City. I've personally seen it. The locals said it was renamed to Copperhead Hollow Rd so people wiuld quit stealing the signs.

Love Steve’s music and it was played on country radio, another old one to give a listen to by a band called Atlanta, song is “Sweet Country Music “

Ive lived in Tennessee all my life and copperhead road is a real road near the tri city area where Kentucky Tennessee and Virginia all meet and before this song became famous u stayed off copperhead road if you weren't from there now days its just a novelty

@hephaestusbuc3534

14 күн бұрын

I live on the Virginia side across from Mountain City...moonshine is still a big business here.

This was one of my brothers favorite songs may her rest in peace

This song always brings tears to my eyes. He has so much love for his family history which clearly is dirt poor, white trash, Appalachian hard living. I just love how unapologetic he is about it.

When he was with the "Steel drivers" it was awesome blue grass.

First time I've ever heard of Copperhead Road being referred to as a Country song...since it was played on mainstream rock stations so much when it was release and is in rotation on a lot of Classic Rock stations.

I love how this song builds from verse to verse from the hard intro into the first verse (that seemed to scare Lilly) to end as an absolute banger.

I love the face you made, when you realized that he went från shine to seeds :D

Lol Copperhead road absolutely is a real place.... And they are all over the South

You also overlooked the "seeds from Columbia" - he was talking about growing pot....back when it was still illegal.

Copperhead Road actual place in the mountains of East Tennessee i lived there for 38 yrs. after this song came out people stole the road signs so much they changed the name of the road. and when he said you never come back from Copperhead Road he's talking about the revenuers not coming back out, not grandpaw.

My immediate family was never into moonshining, but both of my grandfathers were from Tennessee. We moved to a little piece of land in Alabama with a nice running creek behind the house. Every one knew back up stream from us were stills. They did not bother us and we never spoke of it. The entire community knew and that way of life continued until the community was hit by an EF5 tornado. As far as I know, the creek and the stills were wiped out.

It is a real place...

You got it wrong...the government agent went up Copperhead Road after his Grand dad and the agent never came back!

The whole time I was watching this I kept waiting for her to spontaneously jump up and do that line dance girls do to this song. Im from the South though.... Just dance girl! Ya know ya want to!