While Mitchum fictionalized his own character’s backstory, “Thunder Road” was a well-known moonshine route that ran from Kentucky, through Maynardville, then into Knoxville on what is now Kingston Pike, and he incorporated a legendary car crash that disputably occurred either in Bearden, near Asheville Highway or in Concord (now Farragut), depending on who is talking.
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“Thunder Road,” starring legendary actor Robert Mitchum - who also wrote the 1958 movie and helped craft the song - told a tale of bootleggers who tangled with the law, with one horrifically losing his life in the process while running “white lightening.” More than 60 years ago, a Hollywood movie and chart-topping song highlighted the dangers of moonshining up close for the world to see. The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy He left the road at ninety, that's all there is to say Then right outside of Bearden, there they made the fatal “Blazing' right through Knoxville, out on Kingston Pike The mountain boy took roads that even angels feared With G-men on his taillights, roadblocks up ahead “Roarin' out of Harlan, revving' up his mill I'd rather have you back again than all that mountain Now, don't take any chances, if you can't get through Son, his daddy told him, make this run your last Whichever road he tried to take, they'd get him sure as He said two hundred agents were coverin' the state On the first of April, nineteen fifty-fourĪ federal man sent word he'd better make his run no The law they swore they'd get him, but the devil got There was moonshine, moonshine to quench the devil's thirst Thunder was his engine, and white lightning was his
“And there was thunder, thunder over Thunder Road He'd go by like they were standin' still on Thunder The revenoors chased him but they couldn't run him His daddy made the whiskey, son, he drove the load “Now let me tell the story, I can tell it allĪbout the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol
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