{"product_id":"steve-earle-copperhead-road","title":"Steve Earle - Copperhead Road","description":"\u003cp\u003eCopperhead Road is where Steve Earle kicked open the barn door, trading Nashville polish for mandolins, bagpipes and roaring rock guitars on his 1988 third album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCredited to Earle and his band The Dukes and co-produced with Tony Brown, the record landed somewhere between country radio and rock radio, and it found fans on both sides of the line. Earle had already proved himself a gifted storyteller, but here he let the volume match the stakes, writing about soldiers, outlaws and working people with a novelist's eye for detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title track is the centrepiece, the tale of a Vietnam veteran from a family of Tennessee moonshiners who swaps the old trade for a marijuana crop. \"The Devil's Right Hand\" turns a pistol into a cautionary fable, and \"Johnny Come Lately\", recorded with The Pogues, sets a Second World War homecoming against the cold reception that greeted soldiers returning from Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second side softens into love songs and closes with \"Nothing but a Child\", a gentle nativity reflection that shows the tender heart under the leather jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt remains the best-known record in a long and defiant career, and the title track still gets a room stomping more than three decades later.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57287068320049,"sku":"602547704948","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Steve_Earle-Copperhead_Road.jpg?v=1793727651","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/steve-earle-copperhead-road","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}