Thursday, November 08, 2012

Popcorn and Moonshine

Moonshine is illegally distilled liquor and Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton made a living at it. He began running moonshine in the 1970s and continued to his death in the 2009. He was famous for a series of videos he did in the 1990s explaining how to make moonshine, hide it and run it. Thin as a bone in bib overalls and a hat he scooted around the hills of east Tennessee and North Carolina for decades dodging the revenuers and other government men.

When asked about the hard work he said "Hell aint nothing no goddamned harder. Any one have a man caught for trying to make a drink a liquor aint nothing but a dirty son of a bitch." He was famous for saying "This is the last damn likkor run I'm ever goin' to make!"

At 63 years he took his own life as opposed to going to federal prison. Moonshine old school.

If you never had moonshine, its like drinking fire...liquid fire. If you get the chance have a gulp. Its something else.  Here's Popcorn showing you how.

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