Word: hootch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themes are mostly the Nashville perennials of hootch, heartbreak and hallelujah. But his best songs-chronicles of a tough, sensitive drifter-have a gritty conviction that comes from being unsparingly autobiographical. As Willie says, they are "songs that had to come out." The deep lines around Willie's surprisingly gentle brown eyes bear witness to a lot of hard days and even harder nights, and he sings about them with sentiment but no sentimentality, with pain but no self-pity. He celebrates their brief, boisterous pleasures, as in I Gotta Get Drunk...
...Yeah, well I was waiting to go home and I had to take a shit and walked out to the shitter and a rocket hit the hootch I was staying in and killed four guys; imagine that man? I mean, it was a six seater, or something, and I laid down on the floor and then walked back and there were all these fuckers screaming and four of them dead and my suitcase, the one right back there, had holes in it and it still won't close right. Imagine that, man? I have a friend who's very religious...
...lived in a region of the Ozarks called Poop's Peak. "From generation to generation," went an all too typical passage, "the Poopers had zealously clung to the truths which made them free. Namely, snoozing and boozing ... The Poopers were congenital shiners of moon, which is to say, hootch hustlers, which is to say, distillers of illegal whisky." When one of them, young Jake Kertuffel, was sent into town to trade in the family jalopy on a new car, he was swindled into accepting a pile of beans on the assurance that a money tree would grow from them...
...long ago, a white sergeant caught a black Marine dozing on perimeter guard duty at Danang. The sergeant grabbed the sleeping grunt by the throat and told him: "If I were a V.C., you would be dead." That night the Marine lobbed a grenade into the sergeant's hootch, killing him and sending two other NCOs to hospitals in Japan...
...rear areas black soldiers, attracted by common music, language or hate, live when they can in all black hootches, like "The Little Ghetto" in Danang, "Hekelu" in Chu Lai, and "Hootch 8" in Cam Ranh Bay. On the walls, white pinups have been replaced by black ones; one hootch sports more than 500 such photographs. "I don't want no stringy haired beast broad with 'hidden beauty' on my wall," said one black Marine at the Little Ghetto. "Black is beauty...