Word: hillbillyism
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Under Jones, the Mississippi convict's lot became better-much better. Out went the lash-long known as "Black Annie." Jones permitted Parchman's prisoners to receive their wives in cottages on conjugal visits. He organized a hillbilly band to amuse his wards. He broadened an understandably popular...
10:00 HILLBILLY AT HARVARD.
Not only does Mr. Seeger perform travesties on religious music, accompanying delicate oriental melodies with his down-home two-four banjo rhythm, but he also complements a tender African melody with his own lyrics, composed, he tells us, while pouring concrete for his house on the Hudson River. And they...
¶ The New Lost City Ramblers, a trio of college men, sing a brand of hillbilly known as "Blue Grass." Born in Kentucky, the style calls for a complex string accompaniment-in this case on five-string banjo, fiddle and guitar-and a frenetically fast vocal line unreeled to a...
Since World War II the biggest names in golf have belonged to a pair of truly rugged individuals: hard-bitten little Ben Hogan, a Texan who laboriously constructed his game to a point of mechanical perfection, and Sam Snead, a shrewd hillbilly playing out of West Virginia, with a natural...