Word: hillbillyism
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FOR 18 years I lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and had a Southern accent. Mine wasn't Applachian hillbilly-country music Southern, nor was it the soft-petalled Junior League variety. It was just a home-grown Mississippi River vintage '53 drawl. I liked it. Felt comfortable with it. Then I...
If Bonnie Raitt is earthy, then Jackson Browne is slick. He is tall and lean, his hair falls perfectly parted, he sports just a taste of hillbilly in his voice. Friday night Browne did a 40-minute set of his own songs. Plagued by technical difficulties--the worst of them...
Only a few years ago, most city folk thought that good ole country music was something only a born hillbilly could love. Now flat-picked guitars and twangy banjos have begun to compete with even the loudest howls of amplified rock; soulful laments about careless love are heard as often...
Davies brought things to a head with Muswell Hillbilly I've admitted his irrepressible Englishness, especially in light of the English rocker's affinity for American styles a practice that started seriously with John Lennon. Maxwell Hillbilly connects the English working class with their American sounterparts, the back woods crackers...
The action is the point of the film. Even the most human moment the purely aesthetic understanding reached between Drew and a malformed hillbilly boy by playing a wild duet between guitar and banjo pulls its meaning out of moving fingers, Drew's smiles and grimaces and the boy's...