Word: hillbillyism
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The Technicolor cross sets the tone neatly for the television service, a bland but professional blend of folksy, pep-talk piety and bubbly, inspirational hillbilly music-a Norman Vincent Apeale to a Lawrence Welk constituency. The music is no mere come-on; in the hour-long show, Humbard's...
THE ELEMENTS that give force to that scene and some of the other, unpleasant scenes in the movie are the writing and acting, which, suddenly from time to time, strike right at that something we recognize as truth. If there is any actor who can be faulted, it is only...
The violence, the undisguised prejudices, the conservatism, the hard drinking-they're all of a piece somehow. Once it was called hillbilly, and for years only politicians, raised to a new social class on their flatbed trucks and pointing to their necks, yelling, "Look, it's red," a couple of...
His style was a complex amalgam of hillbilly, blues, English ballad, and Hawaiian twang, all coupled with Rodger's own "blue yodel." A mixture of Swiss yodeling and the Negro falsetto, Rodgers took his voice past its highest note and let it break into "T for Texas, T for Tennessee...
He recorded with such disparate stylists as Louis Armstrong, Earl "Fatha" Hynes, Howlin Wolf (Rodgers is credited with giving Chester Burnett the name Howlin Wolf), and the usual repertoire of hillbilly musicians whose musical styles defy categorization.