Who recorded Copperhead Road?
Steve Earle
Copperhead Road/Artists
Is Copperhead Road based on a true story?
The 1989 Steve Earle hit, “Copperhead Road” was inspired by true events on an actual road near Mountain City in Johnson County. The song deals with moonshine running in Johnson County, and the danger and heritage that come with it.
Is John Lee Pettimore a real person?
John Lee Pettimore (c. 1945 – d.)
What happened to Steve Earle?
“I felt that I could do it because so many of those people own Copperhead Road — and I talk like this,” Earle says in the unreconstructed Texas drawl that has survived moves to Nashville and New York City, where he now lives.