690: Steve Earle releases Copperhead Road
Steve Earle is an American singer-songwriter known as much for his political views as he is for his rock and country music. He’s also a published writer, a political activist and has written and directed a play. In 1988, he released an album entitled “Copperhead Road”. The title song “Copperhead Road” (an actual location in Mountain City, Tenn.) tells of a Vietnam War veteran from a rural moonshine bootlegging clan, who returns home to grow marijuana on his family’s land. Most of the songs on the album reflected social issues — the title track attacks the War on Drugs, and the song “Snake Oil” compares then-president Ronald Reagan to a traveling con man.
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