Ballad of Thunder Road

[MacTeutates]

The dirt track at the start of this video looks just like the dirt track in Roswell New Mexico. That place was a blast.

[jmichaelgaddy]

There was nothing in the movie filmed in Knoxville the whole movie was filmed in and around Asheville, NC

[Mctaggart6412]

I live just outside asheville. I've been by this crash site. I come from a family who use to run shine so its hit home

[0289XYZ]

This is how NASCAR started.

[doughesson]

@rockyraccoon1979:I always wondered if they got the geography right or not.Not all songs work it out properly.

[ryoushii]

this was on Clic and Clac the Tappet Bros. as one of their auto filler tunes this weekend.

Robert Mitchum, well at least he could sort of carry a tune, ulike Richard Harris or Lorne Green

[PapaPimpin101]

I fucking love it man.

[GeneralJustin4]

this song has became a part of my car people say its my theme song because im always transporting things like that and my natural habit for driving fast and always takeing the back roads

[nascar1111]

I live near Asheville, so it is awesome to know that a famous movie about moonshining was filmed near my hometown. Great Song.

[theoldmole]

Mitchum also recorded a calypso album.

This is very good for a non-singer, but Jim and Jesse McReynolds own this song.

[doughesson]

@theoldmole Was it better than William Shatner covering the Beatles?

[bigtruuck]

jim &jesse do a pretty good bluegrass verision of this song too.

[rockyraccoon1979]

This song is awesome. I live in Knoxville, Tennessee and drive down Kingston Pike every day on my way to work and actually pass by the Bearden Hill area where this wreck took place. Alot has changed since 1954 but there is a marker up where this wreck happened. They even filmed some of the scenes from the 1958 movie here in Knoxville and in Asheville, NC. Love this song though - great piece of Knoxville history!

[sparkyization]

@rockyraccoon1979 Right fricken ON. Ain't it great to be an AMERICAN!? ;-D

[CragarShinoda]

@rockyraccoon1979

I live in Knoxville, too. My fiancee works off Notrhshore Rd. and Kingston Pike. Ever make it to the Thunder Road Moonshine festival?

[MagykofLove]

I love this song!!!I had the hardest time remembering the title, i'm glad i found it

[davesharon5747]

Thanks for posting this song. Been hunting for it for years. The movie was on TCM a couple of months ago; but the song wasn't on it!

[FCCOOL]

a slow version of thunder road is at the start of the movie and the tune is played in the movie too. good song and a cool movie wich is now on dvd.

[PassedThrough]

He did "Little old wine drinker, me"

[tradecraft46]

Whenever you say: This time is the last time, make that the last time the last time.

[zemfour4]

who does that song?

[AACrashBurnAA]

Awesome man!