Word: hillbillyism
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Even nonrock enthusiasts may find The Band worth getting to know. During the course of a 16-year career, this group produced some uncommonly rich music. Their best work demonstrates a literary appreciation of American myth and a ravenous affection for American pop songs; jazz, folk, hillbilly, soul and country...
Six years ago Jimmy Buffett was up to his eyeballs in a new style, known generally as progressive country, or more correctly, up-country. His comrade pickers'n' grinners were also his best friends, people like John Prine, Steve Goodman, and Jerry Jeff Walker. Like Buffett, they all added their...
Instead, Byrd went off to work as a welder in shipyards in Baltimore and Tampa during World War II. By the time he returned to Crab Orchard after the war, he had lost interest in the Klan but not in Baskin. Byrd, who played a mighty fine, foot-stomping hillbilly...
Though gone from the papers, many of Capp's creations will live on. Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae long ago slipped into American language and folklore, together with the other denizens of Capp's hillbilly heaven, where Mammy Yokum defended her ragtag family and shaky log...
But don't stay out too late making merry with Falstaffian types. Because Sunday, April 24 at 2 p.m., Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys will raise the roof at the First Congregational Church of Cambridge with straight, 100 per cent mainline bluegrass. Nancy Tallbot, who seems to...