Word: hillbillyism
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THE RICHARD BOONE SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Richard Boone stars as a disillusioned hillbilly banjo player who finds love and true happiness back home in the hills.
Hud's producers have created a kind of New Wave western, using simple realism as their strongest tool. They evoke it with sounds: a transistor radio in de Wilde's shirt pocket twanging hillbilly anthems, the slamming of a screen door on a hot night, the screak-screak...
There he stands, and who can believe him? Black corduroy cap, green corduroy shirt, blue corduroy pants. Hard-lick guitar, whooping harmonica, skinny little voice. Beardless chin, shaggy sideburns, porcelain pussycat eyes. At 22, he looks 14, and his accent belongs to a jive Nebraskan, or maybe a Brooklyn hillbilly...
Your fleeting reference to bluegrass music cries out for amplification. Bluegrass is not a "polite synonym for hillbilly." It is a highly intricate derivative of the folk and jazz idioms. Both the term and the music itself received their major impetus from Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys. A bluegrass...
The project should do as much or more for the impoverished, scantily settled areas of western Arkansas, the Ozark region of hillbilly fame. There, in towns such as Dardanelle (pop. 2,098) and Houston (pop. 206), barefoot youngsters ride bareback through the dirt streets and the old folks rock on...