#Sweet little 66 steve earle video series#

In 2018 American metal band Devildriver recorded a version of this song on their album 'Outlaws 'til the End Vol. The band plays this song regularly in concerts. In 1994 German rock band Torfrock recorded a German version of the song with the name 'Kettenhemd' (engl. US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs ( Billboard) Sweet Little 66 (Steve Earle) Now Im a pretty big man around this town I got me the hottest little Chevy around My sweet little 66 She got a yellow front fender and a gray one on the back But my income tax is comin and Im gonna paint her black Sweet little 66. UK Singles ( The Official Charts Company) The music video was directed by Tony Vanden Ende and premiered in early 1988. Listen Now Browse Radio Search Sign In Chronicles Steve Earle. Stream songs including 'Guitar Town', 'Goodbyes All Weve Got Left' and more.

#Sweet little 66 steve earle video series#

The song also 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. Listen to Chronicles by Steve Earle on Apple Music.

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. Once he returns home, he decides to use the Copperhead Road land to grow marijuana, using seeds from Colombia and Mexico. 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 hollow 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. Steve Earle songs, solo and with backing band The Dukes, range from 'My Old Friend the Blues' and other masterpieces from his time as a young Nashville songwriter to classic rock radio standard.