Word: hillbillyism
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Billing himself as Rhubarb Red, Paul soon had a country-music act out of Chicago; he'd play harmonica and guitar and, between numbers, peddle rube humor. By the early '30s he was making $1000 a week at the country stuff; but in the bustling Chicago music scene there was...
Other innovations don't just talk, but listen. Wildfire, a digital telephone assistant, understands commands like "check messages" or "send a copy to the home office" that she processes in a fetching Kathleen Turner whisper. Wildfire Communications Inc. believes that its voice-mail system can be developed into a full...
a. Re-enacting a scene from Oz b. Insisting the other go first c. Testing the new Tickle Me Yasser d. Acting out a wrestling match between the Iron Sheik, Goldberg and Hillbilly
Not unlike Faulkner, Southern Culture has an appreciation for corn liquor, with Miller dedicating "King of the Mountain" to "the sellers of homegrown hillbilly liquor out of the trunk of a Chevy Cutlass." The crowd was certainly driving towards a sort of zenith of intoxication (and towards a Motel 6...
Songs with sweet, rich melodies such as the biographical "Southern Kind of Life" and the emotionally honest "These Pines" are interspersed with sharper and more urgent tunes such as "Don't Talk Back" and "Last Hard Bible," countering each other in an anachronistic combination of hillbilly heartache and well-crafted...