Buell Kazee (August 29, 1900 - August 31, 1976) was an American country and folk singer. His beard, characteristically, looks like it might comfortably house a small migrating population of water fowl, and his eyes are set back in their sockets from decades of close-calls with what Ray calls “the revenuers.” His face is largely blank, although he’s squinting a little; considering his circumstances, you can imagine what may have been going through his mind. [16] The judge noted that Sutton was still under probation in Tennessee at the time of the federal raid, and said that putting a man on probation again after being convicted five times of various crimes would not serve the community interest. [4] The source footage from the 2002 documentary was also re-worked into another Hutcheson documentary, The Last One, which was released in 2008 and was broadcast on PBS. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? [34] The CEO of Popcorn Sutton Distilling is Megan Kvamme. nealh2008/Flickr. Here is what happened to Jeff from Moonshiners and his son in the business of moonshine. We noticed you have an ad blocker on. [22] He had also prepared a footstone in advance for his gravesite, and for years he had kept it by his front porch and had kept his casket ready in his living room. [33], American moonshiner & bootlegger (1946–2009), "New Movie Focuses on WNC Moonshiner Popcorn Sutton", "Yesterday's Moonshiner, Today's Microdistiller", "Legendary Tennessee Moonshiner Plied His Trade to the End", "Widow: Moonshiner took his life to avoid prison", "Family of legendary moonshiner hoped his sentence would be reduced", "Golden Moment: Bulletin: NC State University", United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, "Daughter says independence likely led to moonshiner's suicide", "Estranged daughter remembers 'Popcorn' Sutton", "Hundreds honor memory of legendary moonshiner", "Hank Williams, Jr. Filmed and released in 2002, the film quickly became a cult classic and over time drew the attention of television producers in Boston and New York. On November 9, 2010, Hank Williams Jr. announced his partnership with J&M Concepts LLC and widow Pam Sutton to distill and distribute a brand of whiskey named after Sutton that was asserted to follow his legacy. Since his death, a new company and associated whiskey brand have been named after him. The day he committed suicide, he launched himself into the pages of American lore. Stream songs including "The Last Moonshiner". [33] At the time of the announcement, it had not been decided whether the Popcorn Sutton brands would continue to be produced under contract by the distillery or not. So, its most recent episode aired on February 18, 2020. Did He Get Arrested? ‘Moonshiners’ is a gripping America docudrama television series that first aired on December 6, 2011, on the Discovery channel. 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[29] According to press reports, Popcorn Sutton's Tennessee White Whiskey would be initially distributed in Tennessee and throughout the southeast. Discovered using Shazam, the music discovery app. This does not mean there are no moonshiners with a criminal record on the show. And after that memorial service, his body was taken on a horse-drawn caisson to his property in Parrotsville, Tennessee, where it was reburied. When they hear a gunshot,…. Copyright © 2021 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. He was actually buried in a very isolated plot in western North Carolina, near the graves of his mother and father, but the vandals came in and stole all of the grave markings of the grave site. Listen on Apple Podcasts. [10][11]) At around the same time, Sutton produced a home video of the same title and released it on VHS tape. Pic credit: Discovery. [Verse 1] G C I've been a moonshiner for many a year, D G I spent all me money on whiskey and beer. As Tim gets ready to switch to making legal liquor, Tickle loads their last batch of illegal moonshine into an RV's water tank to sell to waiting customers. We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. Since Moonshiners typically have at least 20 episodes or more, it is coming to an end very quickly. This was the subject of considerable controversy at the time, and Sky would of course have been closer to the situation than I was. January 2021. That stone was removed because the individual who placed it there- beside my father’s head stone- never received permission to add their stone to a private cemetery. Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and the wealthy wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. [3] In the 1960s or 1970s, Sutton was given the nickname of "Popcorn" after his frustrated attack on a bar's faulty popcorn vending machine with a pool cue. Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton was a living legend. Amid pandemic suffering, Latinos grapple with sharp rise in opioid overdoses. Lunn and Henley and the other employees of the distillery became employees of the Sazerac Company. You’ll pass by, in no particular order, a “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!” museum (ubiquitous wherever geographical oddities and commercial zoning coincide); a “Hollywood Wax Museum”; no fewer than 15 places to buy moccasins; frontier-themed amusement parks; fake waterfalls; “Hillbilly Golf”; some place called “Magiquest,” which I think has something to do with magic; a dinosaur museum; a store selling nothing but “As Seen on TV” products; and Dollywood, the world’s only Dolly Parton theme park. He wrote a self-published autobiographical guide to moonshining production, self-produced a home video depicting his moonshining activities, and was later the subject of several documentaries, including one that received a Regional Emmy Award. He was a short, skinny fella, who always wore his hat – that was kind of his claim to fame, his hat that he always wore. [32], In 2014, Popcorn Sutton Distilling opened a new distillery in Newport, Tennessee, the county seat of Cocke County. Sutton committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in March 2009, aged 62, rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of offenses related to moonshining and illegal firearm possession. But with his right hand, Popcorn said all he needed. Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton (October 5, 1946 – March 16, 2009) was an American Appalachian moonshiner and bootlegger. Explore the underground world of Moonshiners on Discovery. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. The Last Moonshiner - Buddy Melton & Milan Miller | Shazam As Ray puts it: “You talk to some of the old people, and they say, ‘You can say it was illegal and we don’t like to break the law, but when it comes down to breaking the law and feeding the family, or not feeding the family, we feed the family.'”. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. The epitaph on his footstone reads "Popcorn Said Fuck You".[12][23]. And I didn’t see it personally, but I’ve seen photos of it. He is considered one of the most successful folk musicians of the 1920s and experienced a career comeback during the American folk music revival of the 1960s, due in part to his inclusion on the Anthology of American Folk Music. And his bib overalls—he always wore bib overalls. Jeff, Mark, and Jim Tom run three stills at once, and … And so several months later, his wife had his body exhumed and there was a large public memorial service to him. Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton (October 5, 1946 – March 16, 2009) was an American Appalachian moonshiner and bootlegger. The day of reckoning may be just around the bend. Terms of Service apply. Sutton had a long career making moonshine and bootlegging. All Rights Reserved. Listen to The Last Moonshiner - Single by Buddy Melton & Milan Miller on Apple Music. February 21, 2021; BEWARE OF DOGS (video) February 15, 2021 Bybee, Tennessee—The road to Cocke County from the Great Smoky Mountains takes us through Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, the Crabbe and Goyle of modern American tourist sprawl. The suit asked that all current existing bottles be taken off the market and that all profits from the sales of those bottles be handed over to Jack Daniel's. His body was carried to its new resting spot by horse and carriage. God bless them moonshiners they’re all friends of mine Their breath is a sweet as the dew on the vine. Stream Tracks and Playlists from The Last Moonshiners on your desktop or mobile device. times Played 0. Others believe that it was the other way around. There’s a king's ransom waiting for those bold enough to grab it, but the police are more determined than ever to catch them red handed. However, this footage wasn't filmed for the show. Popcorn Sutton relative fights to preserve last of his moonshine Rex Hodge 10/8/2020. Last Updated: 2nd December, 2020 20:16 IST Meet The 'Moonshiners' Cast: See The List Of All The Moonshiners In This Docudrama Moonshiners is a Discovery Channel documentary drama series the show follows the life of moonshiners and here is a list of moonshiners cast. He was a friendly fellow, and of course every time you would talk to him, he would say, ‘Ray, I’ve run my last run of moonshine, I’m not gonna do it anymore, I’m just getting too old to be doing this stuff.’ And so that’s what he’d say every time! But of course, after the ATF saw the place, that wasn’t going to be much of a problem. Update: Popcorn’s daughter, Sky, responds in the comments: His corpse was stolen, hidden and reburied in THE LAST PLACE he’d want to be laid to rest. The brand now uses a clear, round bottle with a smaller label. Tickle and his crew have a run in with the police while transporting their moonshine. Listen to The Last Moonshiners | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.. Lille. Moonshine, The Last Runner. If you value what you get from Mother Jones, please join us with a tax-deductible donation today so we can keep on doing the type of journalism 2021 demands. 4301. In the photo, Popcorn is wearing his bib overalls and his trademark hat. Cocke used to be the moonshine capital of the United States, but now, with bootlegging no longer worth the risk (for the most part), younger generations have turned to more modern occupations: White lightning was replaced by marijuana, which was replaced by cocaine, and now that, according to Ray Snader, who covers the area for a local radio station, has been replaced by chop shops and salvage switch operations—a process in which car thefts swap vehicle information numbers of a stolen car with that of a wrecked car. Before his death, he already had his coffin—the shovels were there. Listen to Moonshiner from The Strip's Long gone Lonesome Lullabies for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Sutton said he considered moonshine production a legitimate part of his heritage, as he was a Scots-Irish American and descended from a long line of moonshiners. As they bury one of their last old-time legends, a dozen surviving moonshiners must join forces to fight for their way of life, before it's gone forever. Aboutthe Show. "[19][20], Sutton's body was initially interred at a family graveyard in Mount Sterling, North Carolina. [2] (A woman named Ernestine Upchurch, with whom Sutton had been living in the 1990s, later said she helped write the book. [6] This led to a raid of his property by the ATF, led by Jim Cavanaugh of Waco siege notoriety. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. 1 Tracks. "The Moonshiner" is a folk song with disputed origins. Sutton then wrote a self-published autobiography and guide to moonshine production called Me and My Likker, and began selling copies of it in 1999 out of his junk shop in Maggie Valley. From cast members getting arrested to claims that the show isn’t even real, Moonshiners has its fair share of reality TV drama going on even when the cameras are off. Before he died, he was the subject of the acclaimed documentary This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I'll Ever Make (later edited for TV as The Last One). Addressed to the law, the camera, the fates, and his last (for real this time) run of moonshine: a one-fingered sneak preview of his final resting place. Find out with these 15 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets You Didn't Know About Moonshiners. 19 Followers. And one of the stories that came out in his federal court case was that he had met up with a fellow and sold him 50 gallons of moonshine, because there was a discounted rate…he had ended up selling 50 gallons to this undercover agent, helped him load it and everything. [30] The lawsuit said that the design "...is likely to cause purchasers and prospective purchasers of the product to believe mistakenly that it is a new Tennessee white whiskey product in the Jack Daniel's line." 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