单词 | hillbilly |
例句 | “A hillbilly. Only worse. Some of ’em don’t even speak English.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One rode into the gym on a small tricycle, followed by his friends, who dressed as hillbillies. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I never at- I tended because a fistfight broke out between hecklers and hillbillies and I was busy in the X-ray room taking shots of broken knuckles and metacarpals. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z My sister Lillian was in high school and singing with a hillbilly band called The Sierra Stars—jeans, cowboy hats, two guitars, and a tub bass. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She was so busy telling me about her happy life that she didn’t even ask me what it was like living in Colby with hillbilly kids who eat squirrel. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Ignoring those hillbilly kids who wouldn’t give me the time of day. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It was on the second album, and it was the only slow song they ever did; it sounded almost country, probably from Henry’s brief infatuation with hillbilly punk. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth is, in high school most of the boys lived in Ogdentown, and those of us who came on the bus were regarded as outsiders—hillbillies, in fact, and not fashionable. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I thought only hillbilly grandpas did that, not Italian ones. What is it going to be? It looks like a large raccoon dropping.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Here we are, a bunch of gawddamned West Virginia hillbillies wanting to be Albert Einsteins.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Things began to come together, and I went from speaking like an evil baby to speaking like a hillbilly. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I looked around me at all the hillbilly kids doing math in their workbooks. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Across the pastures, the incredible vulgarity of highly amplified hillbilly music drifted from the cafe on the highway. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Franklin blurts out, “Nothing but hillbillies, blacks, and Mexicans over there!” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He spoke with a hillbilly accent so thick it was almost as hard to understand as the tongues. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “That must have been it. They took you for some redneck hillbilly singer. I’ve had some experience with those people. They’re rather limited.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How I hated Colby and all those hillbilly kids and this nasty old house hanging off the side of the mountain and those canning jars in my room and especially those Cinderella pillowcases. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z We could meet our grandma and grandpa Walls, who were genuine hillbillies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Harry was a hillbilly and a smart dude who liked to hunt deer, and he kept a supply of beer and a long shotgun behind the seat of his pickup truck specifically for that purpose. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I had thought West Virginia was all white hillbillies, so I was surprised by how many black kids there were. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z My best friend, Alvina, told me they would be hillbilly kids. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In fact, at this very minute, while I’m stuck here in Colby, North Carolina, surrounded by hillbilly kids, ole Scrappy is back in Raleigh in the county jail again because of his fondness for fighting. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z But the next thing I knew, I was sitting on that bus full of hillbilly kids on my way to school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Dad did an imitation of a hillbilly accent. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no poker-faced sitcom martians in his part of Africa, no oil-rich hillbillies or aproned brides trying to wean themselves from the practice of witchcraft. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “There’s just red dirt roads and hillbilly kids there.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I also could not stop myself from yelling, “Well, at least I’m not a squirrel-eating hillbilly like you.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She criticized Bill Clinton as a “wandering hillbilly” and the changes forced upon Hillary herself as she shifted her image to appease the public. Samantha Bee recruits Sarah Paulson to read Hillary Clinton's emails 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z It was only a few years earlier, in 2005, when Trump was gamely dressing up as a hillbilly and singing Green Acres at the Emmy awards show. Meryl Streep has hit on star-struck Trump’s big weakness 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z “We didn’t have access to student records,” said Frances Fish Tomkins, a self-described hillbilly who came to Finch in 1956 from West Virginia and never forgot making her first friends in a daunting city. ‘Where Out-of-Town Girls Could Come Feel Safe in New York’ 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Is the film just some horror show of addicts and hillbillies? First sight: Jennifer Lawrence 2010-06-17T21:45:00Z "I know the hillbilly lifestyle interests people on the East Coast. But Debra don't judge me," Hall says by telephone from his home this week. Debra Granik tells a Vietnam veteran's tale in 'Stray Dog' documentary 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Guests can book a stay at the neighboring Bumpus House – the fictional home to the Parkers’ "hillbilly" neighbors. 'A Christmas Story' House available for overnight Christmas stays 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The scene where Ned and I are taken up into the woods by the hillbillies is maybe my favourite shot in cinema – it’s done all in one phenomenal take. How we made Deliverance 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Kid Rock smoked a cigar on stage and told a few bawdy jokes, including one aimed at Lady A, "the hillbilly Fleetwood Mac." Fans lift Carrie Underwood to 2 CMT Awards wins 2010-06-10T05:36:00Z Well-known stories form the basis for many children's songs, and 20s hillbilly fave The Old Ark's a Moving is an original take on the Old Testament tale. Readers recommend: children's songs ? the results 2011-02-17T16:01:23Z In that moment, Rupert is the big man in the room: buying everyone's drinks, loudly berating Rebecca for failing to pull its team out of the league's bottom ranks, calling Ted a hillbilly. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Menken’s characterization of Dayton, Ohio’s religious populace as “yokels,” “morons,” or “hillbillies.” Religion’s media persecution complex 2013-04-23T22:01:00Z Well, she’s from Alaska, which is the farthest place from hillbilly country you can think of, since that's associated with Appalachia. Can a literary thriller heal divides? Silas House’s “Southernmost” isn’t preaching to eit... 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z They are a little bit country, a little bit hillbilly rock 'n' roll, yet their versatility means they're equally at home in indie and folk circles. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z Then, on Thursday, the Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Company, a band of hillbilly balladeers, will sing 1950s rockabilly and hillbilly love songs, as well as originals, starting at 8 p.m. Weekend Miser: Rockabilly, Barbecue and ?70s Movies, on the Cheap 2010-08-19T20:56:00Z Any time you want to present someone as stupid, you assign the word “hillbilly” to them, no matter where they’re from. Can a literary thriller heal divides? Silas House’s “Southernmost” isn’t preaching to eit... 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z And they offer a welcome respite for theatergoers who have yet to acquire a taste for energetic hillbilly hokum. Review: ‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Is Heavy on the Twang 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Whether it's much more than that is debatable, and you do wonder why a Scottish company is prodding the hillbilly mentality when it might tell a similar story closer to home. The Not-So-Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo 2010-08-30T15:38:00Z But “hillbilly culture,” which allows “the white working class to blame its problems on society or the government,” is part of the problem, too. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z A new fascination with flatpicking technique developed into a study of old-time music when she learned about the Black string band tradition concealed beneath the whitewashed narrative of what was once sold as hillbilly music. Amythyst Kiah Found Her Powerful Voice. Now She Has a Sound to Match It. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z When I read the book, I initially laughed out loud – but also cried – over the ways Vance's hillbilly grandparents reminded me of my own extended family. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z He leaves hillbilly country for Asheville, N.C., where he marches into the office of the Asheville Southern Journal, a leading literary magazine where Cusack’s character, Alice, is the formidable editorial gatekeeper. 'Bright Star' at the Ahmanson: Bluegrass, tears and a big, vacuous smile 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z He speaks with a bit of a hillbilly twang, and his manner is gentle and deferential. The Child of a Ragged Town Keeps Returning for Inspiration 2011-07-11T15:10:40Z It was a way more inventive persona than a hip-swinging hillbilly singer.” Robbie Fulks plans Michael Jackson tribute show 2011-03-03T17:59:13Z Evidently not, as the collection looked more like hillbillies on safari. On the Runway Blog: Michael Kors: Poor Man's Safari 2011-09-14T16:39:11Z Along comes cultural critic Ben Yagoda to argue that “Doggie,” far from being a one-off excrescence, was an all-too-typical product of its time — that benighted era of “novelty numbers, lachrymose ballads, simplistic jingles, hillbilly hokum.” ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Vance argues that—because no culture exists in a vacuum—hillbillies are only partially to blame. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Guthrie, not formally educated but a well-read bookworm, used a hillbilly sense of humor patterned after a fellow Oklahoman he admired, said Guy Logsdon, who began researching Guthrie in 1957. 100 years after singer Guthrie's birth, this land is his 2012-07-14T14:42:51Z Economic insecurity, he’s convinced, accounts for only a small part of his community’s problems; the much larger issue is hillbilly culture itself. Review: In ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a Compassionate Analysis of the Poor Who Love Trump 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Why is hillbilly culture so defensive, insular, and frozen in time? The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Residents of, and travelers to, Bentonville, Ark., this month will get a taste of the Ozarks’ hillbilly history with the World Championship Squirrel Cook Off, scheduled for Sept. 12. Food and Tour News: California Grape Stomp, Caribbean Coral Dives 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z “This hillbilly music’s going to be big,” Mr. Burnett told the brothers at the time. Joel Coen on ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ 2013-01-27T22:56:44Z The hillbilly can easily become the wild savage. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z But a great Emmy moment came courtesy of Margo Martindale, named best supporting actress for the series "Justified," where she wowed viewers with her portrayal of a hillbilly mobster mom. Emmycast with Jane Lynch presiding was a winner 2011-09-19T10:54:16Z Pride informed him that he planned to perform under his own name, and that he was going to avoid clichéd hillbilly signifiers like rhinestones and cowboy hats. What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z He plays old-fashioned "hillbilly" music on fiddle, banjo and guitar; he wears tweeds, grandad shirts and hair oil. Frank Fairfield: Sorting the funky from the fogeys 2010-07-22T22:21:00Z Everything about these enemies is designed to call to mind the “dangerous hillbilly” stereotype, from their threadbare overalls to their broken shouts of “There you is!” when they spot the player character roaming their lands. “Fallout” video game series’ post-apocalyptic vision of West Virginia might not be worth th... 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z She made her professional debut at 7, singing what she called “hillbilly” music for a Dallas radio station. Kay Starr, ferociously expressive singer who had pop hit with ‘Wheel of Fortune,’ dies at 94 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Bill McKinney, a character actor whose most recognizable performance was as a menacing hillbilly in the 1972 film “Deliverance,” died on Thursday at a hospital near his home in Van Nuys, Calif. He was 80. Bill McKinney, Actor in ?Deliverance,? Dies at 80 2011-12-06T05:09:39Z The show transformed country and western music from 1948 to 1960 with music genres including hillbilly, western swing, jazz, blues and gospel. Country singer Claude King dies at 90 2013-03-07T19:37:10Z On her first trip to Los Angeles, Cain showed up at the company’s shiny building “looking like an absolute hillbilly,” she said. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z His 1926 hit, “The Sinking of the Titanic,” recorded in New York, was one of the first big sellers in the emerging hillbilly music market. Ken Burns’s ‘Country Music’ shines a spotlight on an unsung Washingtonian 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Peer, armed with new portable technology — including a type of carbon microphone that made sound recordings considerably truer — traveled to Tennessee to record what he called the area’s “hillbilly music.” In Southern Appalachia, Searching for the ‘Big Bang’ of Country Music 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Dawson’s glowering father and siblings are dentally challenged, gun-toting hillbilly roughnecks who viciously abuse the sensitive Dawson. ‘The Best of Me,’ an Adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks Novel 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z All those stereotypes about nonwhites can be transferred to hillbillies as the white Other. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z The discourse around "hillbillies" shifts according to the country's mood. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z The film explores the origins of the genre as hillbilly music through its rise to popularity on radio, TV and film, and its evolution over several eras. Ken Burns hits the road to promote new ‘Country Music’ doc 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z What type of political and social work is being done by the image of the "hillbilly" in the American popular imagination? Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Ira reveals that the culprit was "a southern hillbilly with a big mouth." Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z He was puzzled when I made him talk in that hillbilly voice over and over again, in and out of bed. Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z If being élite means not being a hillbilly, then hillbillies will be less likely to try to become élites—or, for that matter, to elect them. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z They're so-called hillbillies who have decided to leverage people's biases to their advantage. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The songs are told from the perspective of various townspeople, examining everything from “hillbilly heroin” to homophobia, strained marriages, failure and depression. The Killers detour into a new and rich sonic landscape 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z “We’ll show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do,” Guthrie announced on a 1944 radio broadcast, before launching into “All You Fascists,” a ninety-second song about bending the arc of history: A Story About Fred Trump and Woody Guthrie for the Midterm Elections 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z To me, the real pity is that so many coastal elites know so few working-class folks of any color, let alone the hillbilly subset of them. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z They don’t question why it’s being sold at auction for about $20,000 or why the only other interested buyers are a trio of hillbillies. American Horror Story season six review – a scarily shaky start 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “Of course, you know we hillbillies need MusiCares too,” she told the audience. Country singer Dolly Parton raises laughs at charity awards gala 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z "Country radio, thank you for giving me a voice and taking a chance on a hillbilly from Arkansas," the singer said. Florida Georgia Line early winners at Academy of Country Music awards 2014-04-07T02:17:39Z On the other hand, the hillbilly vaudeville gives us something to watch and respond to. Review: ‘Outsiders,’ the Latest Iteration of the American Family as Criminal Enterprise 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z A biologist divorcee with a "hillbilly accent" scours the Appalachian hills for poachers while keeping a fond eye on the local coyotes, till her solitude is disturbed by a young sheep rancher from Wyoming. A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z “That’s just like a really hardcore hillbilly Christmas song,” said Presley. Pistol Annies craft holiday album for the not-so-sentimental 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z At the time, he created another character too: a figure called Steve "Canal" Jones, a working-class white male born in Niagara Falls who creates modest wood collages that he refers to as "hillbilly cubism." Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford piece 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z I hold to the hillbilly standard that there is no situation so hopeless that, through perseverance, I cannot make worse. When the Winds Died Down 2011-07-18T15:50:05.740Z Though we were never so cruel as to scoff at his poetry in public, my brothers and I did joke among ourselves about what seemed to us an especially hillbilly custom. My Cousin, the Cowboy Poet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “Brave Boys” recalls the Pogues, “Doc’s Day” is hillbilly blues, and a composing collaboration with Bob Dylan results in “Sweet Amarillo,” which would fit on “The Basement Tapes.” Review: ‘Remedy’ offers 7-part harmony and more 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Late in the journey, I was hunted for sport by a group of drunken hillbillies with rifles. I never thought I would marry. But my friend persuaded me – after he died 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z I would sing bluegrass music and I don’t fit in there; I would sing rock music and I’m probably a little too hillbilly for that. Chris Stapleton Rides His Own Country Music Wave 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z White country music was stigmatized early on as “hillbilly music” so the industry started pushing it toward the rising white middle class as a way to make the genre more respected and hugely profitable. Country music reckons with racial stereotypes and its future 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Chief among them: How much should he hold his hillbilly kin responsible for their own misfortunes? Review: In ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ a Compassionate Analysis of the Poor Who Love Trump 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Or, worse, the prevailing history described the “hollow folk” who lived here as hillbillies who spoiled the land with grazing and logging. The spirits of Shenandoah National Park 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z If the hillbilly archetype is imagined as being self-sufficient and able to survive on their own, then those traits are turned into violence and aggressiveness. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z In the 1920s, the Hill Billies quartet got its start on the site — then a barbershop — and their sound, which came to be known as hillbilly music, swept the nation. On Virginia?s Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way 2011-05-20T19:29:44Z And there will be some seriously poor hillbillies. "True Blood" finale: The big showdown 2010-09-13T12:30:00Z They have released archival blues from Black laborers in Florida and the Depression-era hillbilly laments of Blind Alfred Reed, a fiddler who sang of hard times in West Virginia. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The series' hillbilly noir aesthetic is beautifully expressed, with Raylan in his long duster and cowboy hat stepping into the headlights as the ex-lovers meet between cars stopped at opposite ends of the dark bridge. Scenes from 4 top Emmy contenders go under the microscope 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “I’m from a hillbilly town upstate where they hunt deer,” he said. Trash and Vaudeville, Still Selling Punk’s Look After 38 Years 2013-05-08T21:08:43Z Much of the personal story Vance tells in “Hillbilly Elegy” revolves around his slow and painful divorce from “hillbilly culture.” The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s all part of Milton’s grand plan to use food to ignite economic development in the region and end, once and for all, the pervasive stereotype of Appalachians as a bunch of toothless hillbillies. The next big thing in American regional cooking: Humble Appalachia 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z The balance of power is also on their side: they’re not poor hillbillies being made to dance for a pittance, but prosperous businesspeople enjoying their life. Back to the Land: NBC’s The Farm Spinoff Failed, But Networks Shouldn’t Abandon the Country 2013-03-15T13:53:56Z But there's nothing — not even the rare Portuguese, country or "hillbilly" tracks — the band can't handle. 'Dancing With the Stars' orchestra has its own smooth moves 2010-04-21T23:03:00Z A few years ago Graham Yost, the creator of “Justified,” called Mr. Williamson with a proposition to play a “black hillbilly godfather.” R.V.s and Stolen Kidneys: Life on the Fringes in ‘Justified’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z I killed my hillbilly father off with cancer — twice. All the ways I killed off my dad 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z These apostles of hillbilly boogie specialize in a hallucinogenic brand of bluegrass. The best concerts of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The hillbilly is a type of white Other in that imaginary. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Hillbillies, he writes, are proud of their “loyalty, honor, and toughness”; of their fierce, unpretentious patriotism; of their work ethic, their tight-knit families, and the decisiveness with which they administer “hillbilly justice.” The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The film's Web site said it is the story of the disappearance of "a local hillbilly icon named Daniel Boone Owen, who vanishes one night after a corn liquor-induced stupor." SC filmmaker: Channels showed porn, not his comedy 2010-03-24T00:06:00Z The trio of singers bring both humor and harmony as they celebrate with hillbilly relatives, get caught up in the hustle and sing Jesus a “Happy Birthday” song. Pistol Annies craft holiday album for the not-so-sentimental 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z One sentence knocked me over with its insight into faith and the next cracked me up with a dead-on imitation of a hillbilly farm wife. The sin I couldn’t give up: What led me away from my strict Christian commune and back to the world 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z One of the main points I tried to make in that book was that the hillbilly is a type of dualistic image. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z She has blue eyes and calls herself “a hillbilly half-breed.” Cherokee Women Aim for a Better Life in ‘Crooked Hallelujah’ 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z And this particularly gets attached to those who live in Appalachia, the hillbilly. The deep roots of “white trash” in America: “Not only are we not a post-racial society, we are certainly not a post-class society” 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z The other side of that image is that the hillbilly and their culture are a problem that "civilization" has to eradicate. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Caldwell, as Fischer noted in court filings, is not a “hillbilly” but a retired naval intelligence officer who once held a top-secret clearance. What were the Capitol rioters thinking on Jan. 6? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z “In tonight’s fun-filled premiere, Buddy Ebsen stars as the head of a proud hillbilly clan that discovers an oil well at home that leads to a new home in Hollywood!” a CBS print advertisement proclaimed. Donna Douglas, the Fairest ‘Beverly Hillbilly,’ Dies at 82 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Whenever I try to picture what they look like, I see a bunch of caricatures: grubby-faced rubes hunting possum or whittling wood — recreational sports of the hillbilly Olympics. All the ways I killed off my dad 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The setting is a "hillbilly mountain town," a backwater still emerging from the 1960s. 'Nightwoods' evokes a sense of (a scary) place 2011-11-02T21:12:03Z “My great-grandfather was a hillbilly, a real mountain man from the Blue Ridge Mountains,” Mr. Hamilton told The Belfast Telegraph while touring in Northern Ireland in 2011. George Hamilton IV, 77, Country Singer 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z His use of "hillbilly" is done without context for how such language has been used in other ways. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Some Allen Brothers recordings were famously released by their record company in its race series instead of its hillbilly series, much to the brothers’ dismay. Elvis wasn’t the first to steal black music: 10 white artists who “borrowed” from R&B before The King 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z If hillbillies are so hardworking, then why do so few people in Middletown work? The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Rich’s essay is the latest offering in a long line of authors using their bylines to muse through what they see as the country’s “hillbilly problem.” Liberal shaming of Appalachia: Inside the media elite’s obsession with the “hillbilly problem” 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z And this genre trades on a bad faith sleight of hand that displaces the reality that the average Trump voter is a college-educated white individual of some means, not a “hillbilly.” Liberal shaming of Appalachia: Inside the media elite’s obsession with the “hillbilly problem” 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Speaking of those millions, a huge part of Parton's legend is her poverty-stricken backstory and she makes as many references to what she calls her "hillbilly ways" in conversation as she does in her songs. Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts' 2011-08-21T19:00:00Z Meanwhile, Pitt's performance as the enigmatic hillbilly and Nazi scalper Lt. Brad Pitt gets gritty again in 'Fury': 5 lessons from his recent work 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z She took up the banjo, another symbol of hillbilly whiteness that actually has Black and African roots. With Her First Opera, Rhiannon Giddens Returns to Her Roots 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z His ‘hillbilly roots,’ as he puts it, will certainly help him out.” ‘Hillbilly’ to Capitol Hill? Author eyes Senate bid in Ohio 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z "How much more are we going to take? How much more of this bulls**t that some hillbilly in South Dakota gets a more important vote 'cause he lives in South Dakota?" Howard Stern slams Justices overturning Roe, says "they can raise those babies that they want" 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “The Gruesome Twosome” and “The Wizard of Gore,” as well as the hillbilly adventure film “Moonshine Mountain” and two children’s films, “Jimmy, the Boy Wonder” and “The Magic Land of Mother Goose.” Herschell Gordon Lewis, a Pioneer of Gore Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z When critic Sarah Jones, an Appalachian by upbringing, argues that "Hillbilly Elegy" wasn't made for hillbilly viewers, I'm not convinced. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Why it's great: Soderbergh returns to what he does best with Logan Lucky, a movie about self-proclaimed hillbillies who are smarter than they let on. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Made with a deft, sensuous touch, they look as if painted by a hillbilly savant with an M.F.A. Art In Review: WAYNE KOESTENBAUM, JANE CORRIGAN, JOE FYFE 2012-11-29T20:26:24Z Everywhere she went, she sang: folk, bluegrass, hillbilly, country and western. The Real Janis Joplin 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The flyover expert responds, well, "'middle' is just a metaphor for that hillbilly America that's out there." Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z “Honestly, I didn't think about that at all with Old Bones. I just thought how best to do her, to find her. Let's start with how it's an old hillbilly, a mountain woman,” Turner says. Kathleen Turner wasn't exaggerating about Trump's infamously "awful" handshake 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z But that delicious Bill Murray-ness starts to build unfair expectations that the whole movie is going to be a quirky farce about charming hillbillies. 'Get Low' Review: Robert Duvall Raises the Bar 2010-07-30T21:00:00Z Black music was veering toward the blues, while white string bands were categorized as “hillbilly,” playing music that is acknowledged to be the precursor of today’s bluegrass and country music. Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z He was always plugged into Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and he identified himself as a hillbilly music performer.” ‘Your Land,’ and Woody Guthrie’s, Preserved 2012-07-11T14:15:14Z Admittedly, I was moved by Vance's compelling biography, which featured many of the hallmarks of my own: hillbilly roots, addicted parent, family violence and – ultimately – a dramatic class leap into elite legal circles. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z “An important question for hillbillies like me,” Vance writes, is “How much is Mom’s life her own fault? Where does blame stop and sympathy begin?” The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s dumb kids in the woods, with the reasonably amusing wrinkle that instead of psycho hillbillies, the threat is anal-probing aliens. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Zombeavers’ and Other Midnight Offerings at Tribeca Festival 2014-04-17T22:08:08Z Writing for theater is very different than just writing hillbilly songs or rock ’n’ roll songs. T Bone Burnett Wants to Make Music to Heal Shrinking Attention Spans 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z In what ways do stereotypes about the "hillbilly" complicate Americans' understandings of race, class and poverty? Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Givens outdrew and out-quipped several seasons of hillbilly miscreants, but he felt their pain; a thin line separated the hero with the gun and the psycho he was shooting full of holes. From Gunsmoke to Deadwood: why the US turns to the wild west in times of crisis 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z An ad last month for Josh Mandel, a Republican who ran against Mr. Vance in the primary, said Mr. Vance “wrote a book trashing Ohioans as hillbillies, then sold his story to Hollywood.” How Hollywood and the Media Fueled the Political Rise of J.D. Vance 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Vance, too, is proud to be a hillbilly: he uses the term in a dignified and respectful way throughout his book. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z That got him hooked on the music that had emerged in the 1950s by loosely combining R&B and the raw energy of hillbilly music. They became MTV stars by playing rockabilly. Now, 40 years later, the Stray Cats are ready for a comeback. 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z None is more colorful than David, a self-identified hillbilly who has learned kung fu from watching action movies on his VCR. The Jerry Springer Show turns 25: fistfights, fetishes and farm animals 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Everyone was practicing "a hillbilly gospel tradition" that's been passed down in the area for generations. Isbell celebrates great year at Americana Awards 2012-09-11T18:02:08Z Her show is not a goofy, snide hillbilly parody but a serious comic creation intended to be so authentic that it might be mistaken for the real thing. Tammy Faye Starlite, Inverted Country-Star Cliché, Strides Back 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Besides, he’s too busy figuring out how to give those bulls and the “hillbillies” who ride them a shot of his juice. Why Hollywood Is Bullish on Bull Riding 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z They either wanted me to play a hillbilly or a killer, sometimes at the same time! Southerners Aren’t Always at Home in Hollywood 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z In that movie, written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan, he played Lonesome Rhodes, a hillbilly singer who metamorphoses into a megalomaniacal television personality. Richard Linke, Andy Griffith’s Talent Manager, Dies at 98 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Jones places "Hillbilly Elegy" among "an old and ignoble genre" that "caricatures the hillbilly for an audience's titillation." The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z “Not many hillbillies got a Louis Armstrong cut, but we did,” he winked. Making the Rounds on Nashville’s Singer-Songwriter Circuit 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z In his teens Bryant worked as an electrician, but he also spent time hanging out with the circle of musicians orbiting around the city's most celebrated hillbilly band, the Skillet-Lickers. Slim Bryant obituary 2010-07-27T17:32:00Z We also saw a resurgent focus on the image of the hillbilly during the 1960s and the War on Poverty. Historian Anthony Harkins on the real story of white poverty and "Hillbilly Elegy" 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z But by his teenage years the swing era had arrived and the jazz-tinged style known as Western swing had evolved, bringing improvisation and invention to the standard hillbilly band. Johnny Gimble, Who Fiddled His Way to Fame, Dies at 88 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Robert Duvall plays a 1930s hillbilly who throws his own funeral. This week's new films 2011-01-15T00:05:55Z People all over the world think they know something about Appalachia because they’ve seen “Deliverance,” which is a well-made but terribly stereotypical thriller portraying hillbillies as soulless, illiterate and mean-hearted villains. Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z “We hillbillies need to wake the hell up.” The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The husband-and-wife tandem boasts a genuine rapport, leaning into each other as they delight in the carefree fun of hillbilly country, raw country and dust-blown folk. Lollapalooza ends on a high note on day two 2013-08-04T11:59:00Z Those that preyed on Appalachians, he writes, turned them into “the horrifying hillbillies that lowlanders had always assumed them to be.” The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z The early music scene was a mix of sounds — Scandinavian folk music, Northeastern classical music and Southern hillbilly rhythms. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z But there are far worse depictions of rural folks and other hillbilly types. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Debbie Reynolds plays an actress who ends up adopting six adorable hillbilly children. ‘Here and Now,’ a New Supernatural Drama From the Creator of ‘True Blood’ 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z It is still acceptable in popular discource to mock “rednecks” and “hillbillies”. Talking right: I lost my Appalachian accent to fit in. Now I want it back 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z I’m this little hillbilly, living in a trailer in Kentucky, and he wrote me back. 'Final Destination' creator Jeffrey Reddick on how the horror franchise should evolve 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z We don’t see ourselves in mainstream media, we don’t see ourselves on television or in the movies or even in the news, unless it’s as a demeaning, hillbilly joke or as a poverty documentary. The author of 'the great Appalachian novel' is coming to Seattle. Here's what inspired her 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z I like the Rich Men North Of Richmond song, but you know there’s at least one very fat hillbilly on food stamps thinking “Aw c’mon man. Leave my fudge rounds out of this.” The right is feeling Oliver Anthony's viral song 'Rich Men North of Richmond.' The left is not 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z “Very early on when I went on stage, I used fake buck teeth and did a hillbilly character,” Sickler says with a cringe. How comedian Ryan Sickler battled a rare disorder and laughed in the face of death 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z He also felt a strong kinship with country and other forms of “hillbilly music.” Chris Strachwitz, founded Arhoolie label, dies age 91 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z I had the sudden realization that to the rest of the world the U.S. was nothing more than a nation of insanely and obscenely armed hillbillies. Donald Trump and the media: How the Waco siege spawned the MAGA cult 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Labels on early soda bottles promised it was “specially blended in the traditional hillbilly style.” Big Soda’s Alcohol Drinks Worry Health Experts 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z While Grande claimed his account had been hacked, the former Montreal Impact midfielder did admit to calling separatist voters “hillbillies” and “stupid.” Montreal fires U-23 coach over controversial 2012 remarks 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z He lived his whole life saying he was a hillbilly and was very proud of it. J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z “I feel like a hillbilly in the city.” Duran Duran stumbles, Dolly Parton rolls into Rock Hall 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z “This is what I would say if I could, to all the smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes. … We can actually hear you.” Review | Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ may be the best novel of 2022 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z He presented his “hillbilly” experiences as a reflection of a failed social system that discourages personal responsibility and feeds resentment against the government. J.D. Vance’s Ambition Comes at a Price in ‘Hillbilly’ Terms 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In the male-dominated world of country music in the 1960s and '70s, Lynn built a reputation as a hillbilly feminist who was bold enough and talented enough to write her own songs. Country music star Loretta Lynn dies at age 90 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Vance was a fake hillbilly because he didn't grow up there. J.D. Vance "misrepresented everything" and "leaves out" women 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z My family members and other immigrants from south of the border had similar insults thrown at them, including “Mexican” and “paisa,” or hillbilly. Column: For some in Southern California, the term 'Okie' is still not OK 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z “Over time, Appalshop’s films, plays and recordings went a long way to expose the hollowness of the hillbilly stereotypes,” said Davis, who formerly worked at Appalshop. Appalachian cultural center reeling from historic flooding 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Early in the 20th century, Black singers were filtered out of country genre as gatekeepers labeled their music as “race records,” as opposed to “hillbilly” or “country and western” categories for White artists. Cleve Francis’s ‘unsung’ story, still inspiring Black country artists 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “Using this as a model, white radicals must awaken ‘redneck’ and ‘hillbilly’ Americans despite an aversion to their racial and gender politics,” the post said. Nevada lithium mine pits Biden green agenda against radical environmentalists 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Before Mr. Trump’s arrival on the scene, Mr. Vance’s hillbillies fit poorly into the prevailing political framework for helping the downtrodden. Opinion | The Decline of Ohio and the Rise of J.D. Vance 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z We assimilated Mexican American students slurred our recently immigrated classmates as “wabs,” an epithet unique to Orange County that essentially means “hillbilly” and remains in use. Column: Racism in O.C. schools is nothing new — but it’s surprisingly diverse 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Upon returning to Florida, a tradition unchanged by his fame, deGrom lowered the velocity in Volusia County, ordered the best-selling hillbilly sandwich with pulled pork from the local haunt and fished in honey holes. To Know Where Jacob deGrom’s Going, Look at Where He’s From 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Reaves later was asked if he’s more hillbilly or more Kobe. Lakers rookie Austin Reaves explains why his nickname is 'Hillbilly Kobe' 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z In Their Own Words This new episode of the documentary series profiles guitarist Chuck Berry and how his blend of hillbilly music and R&B helped create the music that became rock ‘n’ roll. What's on TV Tuesday: 'In Their Own Words Chuck Berry' on PBS; the Tokyo Olympics continue 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Ohio hillbillies — some of them natives, some of them migrants from Kentucky and West Virginia who manned Ohio’s factories in the last century — are Mr. Vance’s people. Opinion | The Decline of Ohio and the Rise of J.D. Vance 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z The first interview was with President Clinton, whom I played as a carefree hillbilly, gleeful that he could say anything he wanted at 12:30 a.m. when no one was watching. End of a late-night era: 28 years of memorable Conan moments The white Trump supporters I met actually see themselves as some type of minority group: "We're being put down. We are being prejudiced against. They call us rednecks and hillbillies." Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild on the Trump demographic: "Elite of the left behind" 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z Profoundly conservative, Mr Vance put the blame for the hillbillies' failure to thrive on culture and a lack of personal responsibility, rather than systemic issues of economics and policy. JD Vance: Trump whisperer turned Senate hopeful 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z His ‘hillbilly roots,’ as he puts it, will certainly help him out.” ‘Hillbilly’ to Capitol Hill? Author eyes Senate bid in Ohio 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z “When you have a certain sound, especially back in those days when people weren’t very sensitive, it was very easy to be called a hillbilly.” Some people think they have to lose their accent to get ahead — is that fair? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z "I think Diane was curious because I was a hillbilly from Oregon." Vietnam vet reunites with junior high sweetheart 59 years later 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z He was born in Lewisburg but grew up in Charleston and lightly refers to himself as a mountain man and a hillbilly. WVa filmmaker debuts Amazon Prime show on life during COVID 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z His family were what he calls "hillbillies": white, working class, no education beyond secondary school, and mostly of Scots-Irish descent. JD Vance: Trump whisperer turned Senate hopeful 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Her students debated Dolly for hours, discussing hillbilly tropes, economics, representation. A Dolly Parton class is in session at Eckerd College 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z I was a hillbilly — one used to hearing my family worry about paying the bills and making ends meet. Opinion | The Real Meaning of Hillbilly 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z They are alternately seen as a hillbilly fringe with outsize ambitions for political revolution, and a savvy movement demanding constant vigilance. Lone wolves connected online: a history of modern white supremacy 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z He thinks the answer to this region's problems is that "hillbillies must wake the hell up." A day of reckoning for Big Pharma: The elegy that Appalachia really needs 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Threadgill’s began hosting live music in the 1940s, with local hillbilly blues artists paid in rounds of beer. The Treasured Diners and Hidden Haunts That Covid-19 Closed for Good 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Although not a racial epithet, you would be ill-advised to call someone in a grocery store in Morgantown, W.Va., a hillbilly to his face. Feedback: 'Walk in our shoes, Sia.' The call to use actors with autism 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z The fact is, in the early 1900s rednecks and hillbillies weren’t backward; they were ahead of the times. Opinion | The Real Meaning of Hillbilly 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z “A cooling of the political temperature, to my mind, would be more desirable than forcing some hillbilly baker to make a gay wedding cake.” Can Biden and Harris put a bitterly divided America back together again? 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z In the election-themed Season 1 episode “Impeach Fuzz,” hillbilly villain Fuzzy Lumpkin is accidentally elected mayor after telling the Mayor, whose barnstorming has disturbed his sleep, to shut up. Doomscrolling? Distract yourself with these election-themed TV episodes 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Smith’s ears were attuned not to pitch-perfect harmony, Tin Pan Alley-inspired optimism or operatic works, but to the so-called race and hillbilly records issued starting in the late 1920s. For music archivists, a contemporary dilemma: Should racist songs from our past be heard today? 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Call it hillbilly noir: an Appalachian-set story of good and evil in which there seems to be an unhealthy preponderance of the latter. New movies to stream this week: ‘All In: The Fight for Democracy,’ ‘The Devil All the Time’ and more 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z I learned a lot from those poor uneducated hillbillies. Opinion | Do We Look Down on the Less Educated? 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z “It was a Friday night, something to watch, something to do. We are a bunch of hillbillies,” joked Toby Wait, the superintendent, principal and gym teacher for the town’s 55-student school. Sierra fire's unstoppable path of destruction devastates town, sends residents fleeing 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z As Gennett wound down from its early 1920s peak, it built a reputation as a label for “hillbilly” and “old-time” music, which were the origins for what’s dubbed “country” today. New exhibit illuminates pioneering Indiana recording studio 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z "We get looked on as if we are hillbillies," he said. The 'forgotten' community left to fall off a cliff 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z According to Boone, Presley at the time was singing “hillbilly songs with kind of a rock beat,” which intrigued him. Pat Boone recalls meeting pal Elvis Presley: 'He was just a scared young kid' 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Billed as the “world’s greatest hillbilly show,” the program was broadcast Saturday night at 9 from D.A.R. Perspective | There’s a Washington connection to late Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z When he signed up for a Zoom gun safety session, one new gun owner, a 40-year-old tech company worker from San Jose, said he expected he would be chatting with “some hillbilly NRA guy”. Meet the gun safety instructor holding 'office hours' on Zoom 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Called “Hayloft Hoedown,” it’s considered the first country music television show in Washington, though back then people called it “hillbilly music.” Perspective | ‘Hayloft Hoedown’ was D.C.’s first country music TV show. Do recordings remain? 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z They are mountain folk—you might even call them hillbillies—and proud of it. Least popular tour pro, or did we all get him wrong? - Golf Digest 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z I said, ‘Really? I’ve seen his name on a jukebox in Dallas, but he’s a hillbilly, he’s country.’ Pat Boone recalls meeting pal Elvis Presley: 'He was just a scared young kid' 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z About real-life hillbillies who live near Hot Springs, who come down out of the mountains to peddle goods at craft fairs and whom you recognize by their angular faces, crooked noses, close-set eyes and buck-teeth. The ride of Sam Snead’s life - Golf Digest 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z One of the Trump voters actually isn’t a Trump voter but is brought there by mistake, and not being a redneck hillbilly idiot, she manages to fight back. The Hunt depicts elites hunting the poor for sport. The 'satire' feels a little too real | Jessa Crispin 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z Mindte said station executives decided hillbilly music wasn’t the sort of image they wanted to project. Perspective | ‘Hayloft Hoedown’ was D.C.’s first country music TV show. Do recordings remain? 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z A bit of a hillbilly intellectual without much formal schooling, a void in his resume that both flusters and propels him. It's words, not bullets, for the 'bear whisperer' of the Eastern Sierra 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z "I'm like, 'That's exactly who we are'... We're hillbillies. We fight dirty. We fight to win. We build stuff. And we don't rely on the government. We do cool stuff," he concluded. Comedian fires back at Hollywood after Brad Pitt's jab at Republicans during Oscars speech 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Haley Jr.: Back when he was growing up, country music was known as “hillbilly” or “Western.” Bill Haley’s son claims ‘Rock Around the Clock’ singer had a dark side, struggled from alcoholism in memoir 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The piece — headlined “Heroic Dopeheads?” — mocked a “new species of ‘victim,’ the ‘hillbilly heroin’ addict.” Inside Purdue Pharma’s media playbook: how it planted the opioid “anti-story” 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The wild night of costumes, drinking and partying turns into a bloodbath when an inbred family of hillbilly cannibals target several college students for dinner. Movies on TV for Oct. 6-12: 'Throne of Blood' and more 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z And she said, ‘I’m from the hills of West Virginia, and we call it hillbilly.’ Perspective | Washington, the capital city that’s always been a country outpost 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z If Yankee bootleggers stood for organized crime, the hillbilly moonshiner is the picture of down-home entrepreneurial individualism. On TV, country is the soundtrack to the American dream 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z “They assumed we were two hillbillies in a pickup truck, as opposed to business owners,” he said. Welcome to San Diego. Don’t Mind the Scooters. 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z One of its greatest delights is King’s extended cameo as an unlucky hillbilly transmogrifying into a mossy mutant, an appropriate metaphor for his fecund imagination. The best Stephen King movies … ranked! 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Moore had been working for almost five decades as a self-described “old hillbilly lawyer” out of a converted house downtown. The ‘follow-up appointment’ 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z He grew up in Bethesda where the sound of a banjo he heard on the radio made him fall hard for what was then called “hillbilly” music. Perspective | Remembering John Duffey, who forged a new bluegrass in Washington 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z He was more interested in telling about the real-life hillbillies not far from his home in Hot Springs, Va., who were recognizable by their angular faces, crooked noses, close-set eyes and buck teeth. It's time to remember Sam Snead - Golf Digest 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z The bottles’ paper labels depicted a barefoot, overalls-clad hillbilly holding a rifle in one hand and a jug of moonshine in the other. Exhibit reveals Mountain Dew’s hillbilly and bourbon roots 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Russ, a young diabetic with a few petty crimes on his record, “looked like an insane hillbilly.” Author revisits most spectacular bank robbery in US history 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z “They are backwoods hillbillies that are carrying guns and breaking into people’s houses,” Mitchell said. ACLU challenges bail bonds system after bounty hunters charged with assault 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z “The people up here, even the hillbillies like me, we would go down with our guns and stand outside the front gate of Islamberg to protect them,” Lonsberry said. Twitter terror: Arrests prompt concern over online extremism 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z “They assume we’re a bunch of uneducated hillbillies, without actually learning who we are and what our community is about.” ‘We needed Trump to survive’ – in this area of Texas, Trump is deemed a success 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Turning a Knoxville whiskey mixer into a soft drink to “tickle yore innards” took mixology magic, business savvy and a marketing campaign filled with gun-toting, jug-swigging barefoot Appalachian hillbillies. Exhibit reveals Mountain Dew’s hillbilly and bourbon roots 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z And most of these hillbillies are packing heat anyway, so it would behoove one not to be too stupid. Houseless in Alaska: why I opted for mountain views and porcupine dinners 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Such wounds remain fresh in a highly rural region that struggles economically, where people believe the north’s elite view them as unrefined hillbillies with odd accents. For 800 years, they were celebrated as martyrs to their faith. Just one problem: The Cathars may never have existed 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z All of these proposals share a certain spirit that enlightened lawmakers need to save the red-state hillbillies before we are swallowed by potholes. Recent Missouri Editorials 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Were people overlooking the community “just cause it’s all hillbillies and stuff and trailers and not, like, retirement people?” California fire: The tiny community of Concow was hit hard by the Camp fire. Residents hope they're not forgotten 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Mountain Dew’s strategy rode the time’s popular wave of Appalachian hillbilly marketing, Alfrey said. Exhibit reveals Mountain Dew’s hillbilly and bourbon roots 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Marshall University is presenting the film “hillbilly” from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Screening slated for film that examines hillbilly stereotype 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z In general, people look at me and they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s some real hillbilly s—.’ … This is just how I am all the time.” The song of the spoon lady: Pain, perseverance and an unlikely journey to viral fame 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Though many of the mountain people interviewed embrace the term “hillbilly,” they resent the characterization that they are uniformly poor and illiterate. Review: Documentary ‘Hillbilly’ takes on media stereotypes of Appalachia - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z “I’m not Mossad. I’m not Jewish. I’m just a hillbilly.” A ‘Hillbilly’ From Arkansas, Doing Life in Qatar 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z As the 1970s begin, Pepsi dropped hillbillies but kept their bare feet. Exhibit reveals Mountain Dew’s hillbilly and bourbon roots 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z How come we're not talking to the Trump people in the suburbs of Iowa, as opposed to once again going down to southern Illinois to find one "hillbilly" we can profile? Historian and author Jeff Biggers: “Resistance is the quintessential American story” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The fruit’s other common names — hillbilly banana and Quaker delight, and lately, hipster banana — somehow lack market appeal. Opinion | Pledges for pawpaw season 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z I’m not sure any other white act was playing that kind of music at that point, but here’s these hillbilly kids singing it.” Lorrie Collins, teen '50s rockabilly star of the Collins Kids with brother Larry, dies at 76 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z From 1957 to 1960, the Jamboree brought country music — or, as a lot of people back then called it, “hillbilly music” — into homes around the District. Perspective | The hot new album by a Maryland bluegrass band was recorded 60 years ago 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Its hillbilly character “Grandpappy” was shown on later bottles shooting at a government revenuer running from an outhouse. Exhibit reveals Mountain Dew’s hillbilly and bourbon roots 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Traditionally, the conjured image is not flattering, from the early-1900s “drunk hillbilly” stereotype to summer 2014,when country concerts saw a spate of intoxication-related hospital trips and arrests, and one death. Inside country music’s complex — and increasingly lucrative — love affair with alcohol 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The producers of the hit MTV show “Buckwild,” which followed a group of young West Virginians engaged in “hillbilly high jinks,” are hoping their in-production reboot, “West Virginia Wilder,” will be a hit. A West Virginia senator does not like the ‘Buckwild’ reboot set in his state 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z “We hillbillies must always try harder and reach higher,” Kennedy wrote in an email. Virginia students plan far out experiment to outer space 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z And they were the backing band on “Don Owens’ Jamboree,” which was hosted by a local DJ, songwriter and music promoter who hated the term “hillbilly” music. Perspective | The hot new album by a Maryland bluegrass band was recorded 60 years ago 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Pepsi officials loved what one executive called the beverage’s “frankly hillbilly appeal.” Exhibit reveals Mountain Dew’s hillbilly and bourbon roots 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z When people hear “Appalachia,” stereotypes and even slurs often immediately jump to mind, words like “backwards,” “ignorant,” “hillbilly” or “yokel.” Resisting Technology, Appalachian Style 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z "You took my life and wrecked it, but I've been resurrected," she growls over a ragged hillbilly beat, "And baby what you get is exactly what you deserve." 'Music helped me confront body dysmorphia' 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Playing what he calls “hillbilly ball,” a wide-open style reliant on 3-point shooting, the Herd have gotten better each year under him. First-time NCAA Tournament head coaches leading 15 teams 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z My search engine helpfully prompts me to narrow results by adding “hillbilly”, “trailer” and “inbred” to my search terms. Passive, poor and white? What people keep getting wrong about Appalachia 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z The Johnson City firm loved the drink’s green bottle and hillbilly imagery and got a franchise to make it. Exhibit reveals Mountain Dew’s hillbilly and bourbon roots 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z People talked about a “hillbilly madman,” a punk version of outlaw country-singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver and the product of DNA that contained the entire life span of country music. This ‘hillbilly madman’ is country music royalty. So why haven’t you heard of him? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z And like the Demon, this Jeep burns gas like a hillbilly bonfire. 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk: The Most Powerful SUV Ever? 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z It was first known as hillbilly or mountain music, or just traditional music, born of its roots in Appalachia where families would sit around taking turns in ensemble singing and playing. How I fell in love with country music | Martin Farrer 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z He went on: “We feel like we can do anything, and as long as you put that hillbilly voice on top of it, it’s going to sound country.” From Farm to Farm With the King of ‘Bro-Country’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z “I’m from California, but I’m really more of a hillbilly at heart.” Tented shelter for homeless people returns to downtown 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Now here’s this guy talking about some hillbilly feminist kin of his who used to play at music festivals and tell dirty jokes to earnest folkies. This ‘hillbilly madman’ is country music royalty. So why haven’t you heard of him? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z We're happy for the big money on the coasts to continue considering Iowa et al. hillbilly flyover country. As Silicon Valley Gets ‘Crazy,’ Midwest Beckons Tech Investors 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Here, the proliferation of opioids encouraged abuse and the pills came to be known as “hillbilly heroin”. America's opioid crisis: how prescription drugs sparked a national trauma 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Thirty years ago, D’Arby, an American of Scots-Irish “hillbilly” and Native American parentage who spent time in the army in Germany before launching his career in London, was the toast of Britain. Why Terence Trent D'Arby became Sananda Maitreya: 'It was that or death' 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Woody Pines The Nashville musician plays hillbilly boogie. Going Out Guide for the District, Oct. 5-11, 2017 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Music was one of the things the family brought north, and Ola was soon playing in a hillbilly band and hosting a radio show. This ‘hillbilly madman’ is country music royalty. So why haven’t you heard of him? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z He became fascinated by what was then called “hillbilly” music and by “race” music, or recordings of the blues by black performers. Tom Paley, who helped spur folk revival with New Lost City Ramblers, dies at 89 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z But at our motel for the night, we did end up meeting one of the most fascinating characters on the entire trip, a true hillbilly Shakespeare. In search of the American man: why I hitchhiked across the Rust Belt 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z She called Ozark County the “most backward, hillbilly Republican county in the state.” East Wind community in Missouri continues to grow 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z But the NRA has produced videos saying the left and the media are out of control and feeding a false narrative that tea party conservatives are racists and Trump supporters are "toothless hillbillies." NRA's Message to 'Elites': 'We're Coming for You' 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z A trillbilly is defined by the Urban Dictionary as a true and real hillbilly who keeps the lock on their fields. Podcast wants to engage about Appalachian stereotypes 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Previously, he said such recordings would have been done with studio musicians in New York City or Chicago, and nobody would have recorded a “hillbilly” fiddler. Atlanta building steeped in music history faces demolition 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z This partnership of the nerds and the hillbilly gladhander made gambling history. Phil Mickelson's Insider-Trading Escape - Golf Digest 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z And by seeking nuance rather than clickbait, it also acts as an antidote to “hillbilly shaming”. On the Ground: our new project spotlights reporters from all over America 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z Before they depart, Ali is asked by a star-struck group of hillbillies and rednecks to sign autographs on magazines and pieces of toilet paper. Opinion | Muhammad Ali at a crossroads: out of the ring and out of the army 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z If we are not careful, the grandchildren of Silicon Valley tycoons might become a superior biological caste to the grandchildren of hillbillies in Appalachia. Are we about to witness the most unequal societies in history? 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Berry combined the ‘hillbilly’ sound of white country with the African-American rhythm and blues that he imbibed in his native St. Louis.” Opinion | The left’s misguided obsession with ‘cultural appropriation’ 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The guys at Bitsource also view being a hillbilly is something positive. Hillbillies who code: the former miners out to put Kentucky on the tech map 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z There’s also the opioid addict, hillbilly or not, who turns to the “street pharmacist” for heroin, and pill hustlers when a bona fide doctor and his scripts can’t ease the pain. Opioid use and abuse are the problem 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Fundamentalism’s detractors would later associate it with hillbillies and Southern country folk, but as a political matter, the movement was born and based in Northern cities into the 1950s. Opinion | How Trump breathed new life into the cultural war waged by evangelicals 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z “People were dying all over the place. It wasn’t their kids, their wives, their husbands, their brothers. It was some hillbilly in Central Florida, so who cares?” This company’s drugs helped fuel Florida’s opioid crisis. But the government struggled to hold it accountable. 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z They performed blues and ballads, and also adapted country tunes into a “black hillbilly” style that proved very popular. Chuck Berry dies at 90, a founding father of rock 'n' roll 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z “A hillbilly is someone who is hard-working, thoughtful, and loyal,” Couch says. Hillbillies who code: the former miners out to put Kentucky on the tech map 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Why Little Big Town went 'hillbilly Sade' to follow up 'Girl Crush' L.A.'s next great singer-songwriter? It might be Ethan Gruska 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z When the host of the show snarkily refers to the Bakers as hillbillies, his colleague corrects him saying, “they were quiet, not backward.” ‘Resident Evil 7: biohazard’ review: Mediocre, backwoods horror 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z “I think a lot of city people always think that we’re so ignorant, and we’re just hillbillies, and I don’t believe that at all,” Smith said. Trump backers like his early moves: ‘It’s what executives are supposed to be’ 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z If you’re in the mood for nonfiction, follow along as authors explore America’s low-cost housing crisis, hillbilly culture, a childhood in Syria, Queen Victoria’s reign and a terminally ill neurosurgeon’s final months. Aleppo, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump: Your Weekend Briefing 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z “I’m a country fan because that’s what I grew up listening to as a hillbilly,” he quipped. Terre Haute man restores vintage ‘talking machines’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z They are the epicenter of the so-called “hillbilly heroin” epidemic. How long will you live? That depends on your zip code | Celine Gounder 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The Rust Belt is not made up of hillbillies who that think they are victims or a subculture clinging to destructive traditions. Trump pledged to support the Rust Belt 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z The Republican Party’s extraordinary dominance in this election demonstrates just how costly the Democrats’ scornful rejection of “hillbilly populism” has been. Donald Trump’s Jacksonian Revolt 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z To assert your identity as part of the enlightened America, you need to disassociate yourself from the racist hillbillies, rednecks, and suburban dolts supporting Trump. Two Americas: Why Donald Trump Still Has a Lot of Support 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Also, there’s an entire exhibit devoted to “what is a hillbilly?” that discusses the term’s history from its inoffensive origins to its current status as a pejorative. TRAVEL: Roots music and country birthplace in Southwest Virginia offers musical education 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Greenwich Village then was the epicenter of folk music, though many strummers of hillbilly and bluegrass tunes were the sons and daughters of the Bronx and Brooklyn. Bob Dylan and New York: A Complicated, Fertile Romance 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s everywhere, from tweets describing Trump voters as inbred hillbillies to a Democratic campaign platform that didn’t bother with a specific anti-poverty platform until a month out from the general election. Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working-class Americans 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Specifically, the roughly 20-minute gore gantlet features 10 stops, some within closed warehouses, that often highlight ghastly nightmares starring serial killing hillbillies, human-flesh-eating pig farmers, the undead, killer clowns, executioners and bloodthirsty rednecks. Best horror attractions 2016: ‘Field of Screams’ (Mountville, Pennsylvania) 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z This is hillbilly country, the northwestern edge of Appalachia. Heroin, Obamacare and Pride: Why Trump Is Finding an Audience In Southern Ohio 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z “Well, that’s deep,” I thought, then inhaled another line of powdered “hillbilly heroin”. Alcoholics who quit completely do better than those who dabble. I'm not surprised | David Ferguson 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z In hillbilly country, as in urban America, a great many people simply lack the discipline to work. Don't Believe the New Myths About America's White Working Class 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z "That it had resonated so personally is odd, however, because he wasn't writing about the hillbilly transplants from Appalachia – he was writing about black people in the inner cities." Required Reading for Education Reformers 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z “Call me a hillbilly, but dude I love that stuff,” Kaleb said. UW lineman Kaleb McGary: ‘I’m finally starting to see speckles of light, man’ 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z “No one seemed upset that a hillbilly was playing blues licks or a black guy could do a country song,” Mark said. The Nighthawks, still airborne after all these years 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Vance has become a spokesman for the white working class, explaining why many of his “hillbilly” friends will vote for Trump but why he won’t. A hillbilly’s plea to the white working class 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z They were founded in 1903 by a group of merchants in Scottville and initially dressed as hobos and hillbillies when they performed at local carnivals. Bawdy Scottville Clown Band shocks, awes Michigan crowds 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Ditto Charles Murray's "Losing Ground," "another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies – which addressed the way our government encouraged social decay through the welfare state," he noted. Required Reading for Education Reformers 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z “That skillet became part of the imagery of the Appalachian woman,” said Lundy, who identifies herself as a member of the “hillbilly diaspora.” America’s iconic cast-iron skillets, reborn 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z “Once people talk to me they realize this guy’s not a threat, he’s a hillbilly.” Doctor who treated Orlando shooting victims addresses Islamophobia in wake of attack 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z It took in tens of millions of dollars a year selling Oxycontin and its generic, oxycodone, to people who travelled from Kentucky and West Virginia where painkillers were known as “hillbilly heroin”. How cracking down on America's painkiller capital led to a heroin crisis 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Run: I’m running around, acting like I don’t care because I don’t know what I’m doing and why I’m singing this hillbilly stuff. ‘Walk This Way’: The collaboration that changed music — and popular culture 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “When she opens her mouth and sings, no question that there’s a hillbilly down inside there,” Shelton said, adding that he expected to see her remain in the competition. 'The Voice' recap: Teams Blake and Christina take it live 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z For years, it was tough to buy artisanal mezcal in Oaxaca City: it was considered hillbilly moonshine, and nobody copped to liking it. A Liquor for the Farm-to-Table Movement 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z As a result of hillbilly derision by the elite, instead of becoming the person who rises above the crowd, the hillbilly deliberately falls below. This is why Donald Trump’s winning: The GOP thinks their base is backward — now they’re showing them who’s in charge 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z There are many ways to describe this story of a modern hillbilly clan sworn to protect their way of life at all costs, but the most accurate is “surprisingly good.” TV picks: 'Mom,' 'New Girl,' 'Outsiders' 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z By the time Johnson arrived a different image had taken hold – that of the anti-modern, moonshine swilling, gun toting, backwards “hillbilly”. America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z But the book is also a love letter to American music in all its forms, from hillbilly to jazz to soul and, of course, rock-and-roll. Successful and disastrous career of music legend 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z "I'm just an old, dumb, country hillbilly, but I know God," he added. Kentucky gay marriage row: Rally for jailed clerk Kim Davis - BBC News 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z The hillbilly is no simpleton, no bumpkin, though often dismissed as such in popular culture. This is why Donald Trump’s winning: The GOP thinks their base is backward — now they’re showing them who’s in charge 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Joe Davis, who described himself as “an old redneck hillbilly,” pointed to the rainbow-clad protesters on the opposite side of the lawn. Kentucky Clerk Invokes 'Gods Authority' in Fight Against Gay Marriage 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Frontier communities steeped in the myth of self-reliance are now blighted by addiction to opioids – “hillbilly heroin” to those who use them. America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Joe Davis, who described himself as "an old redneck hillbilly," pointed to the rainbow-clad protesters on the opposite side of the lawn. About 4 years ago, clerk in gay marriage fight was unlikely candidate to wage moral war 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Joe Buck The hillbilly punk one-man band and former guitarist of Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers headlines a benefit for a friend’s medical expenses. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Aug. 20-26, 2015 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z The hillbilly is the repository for all the negative attitudes in sophisticated quarters for the poorer, less educated part of white America. This is why Donald Trump’s winning: The GOP thinks their base is backward — now they’re showing them who’s in charge 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z The multiracial group of kids argues against a stereotypical, white hillbilly type with an exaggerated southern accent and a Confederate flag cap, Raw Story reported. Children unleash profanity-laced tirade in anti-Confederate ad: ‘I’m not O-KKK with that s–’ 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z So people will say, ‘Yeah, I’m hillbilly, and proud of it!’” he said. A push to restore pride in the way Appalachians speak 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Despite his constant call for everyone who loves America to be a “real” and not a hyphenated American, the Robertson clan’s hillbilly chic only works on white men’s bodies. GOP’s toxic white male bluster: Trump, Cruz and Christie bully to overcompensate 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z We often had children early, and those children, following in this weird Jewish hillbilly tradition, have by now had children, too. A Point of View: Family, reunions and the passage of time - BBC News 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z In a nation with a hair-trigger sensitivity to disparaging labels, the word “hillbilly” still flies with impunity. A view from the south: let the confederate flag go | Barbara Kingsolver 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The drug was so popular among the rural poor of Appalachia in West Virginia and Kentucky that it earned the street name 'hillbilly heroin'. Technology: Barriers to misuse : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “There’s a kind of re-appropriation of things ‘hillbilly,’ which were once considered to be a negative stigma, and embracing it and turning that around into something positive. A push to restore pride in the way Appalachians speak 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Even before Jeb Bush, the name comes freighted with assumptions, like that you’re a hillbilly, or from a super religious family. Thanks Jeb Bush. You just made my life as a Jeb even harder | Jeb Lund 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z They have grievances: Urbane Pakistanis talk about them the way American snobs refer to “hillbillies” and “trailer trash.” The Final War Against Polio 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z “They don’t want to be seen as hicks and hillbillies, and we don’t want to be seen as a bunch of girls doing this as something besides their hair.” Masters of Taxidermy Seek to Replicate More Than an Animal’s Appearance 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z There’s a photograph of four Galax musicians who went to find fame and fortune in New York and, according to the local lore, coined the phrase “hillbilly.” Galax makes for a good Virginia getaway for fiddle, BBQ fans 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z “You don’t want to take all of the hillbilly out of it, you know?” he said. Mower Meets Moonshine at a Museum for Country Star George Jones 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z “My eyes swelled up, and I sounded like a hillbilly,” she said. Kansas City program helps troubled moms find jobs 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Black blues singers, white hillbilly singers and gospel singers of both races all rubbed elbows, sometimes in the flesh, often over the airwaves. Elvis: Moving in Memphis Songs are laced with lyrics about “bullet catchers,” sacrifice, “hillbilly armor,” death and, in the case of Olid, renewal on a bridge. Vets and musicians meet to craft personal songs 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z To appreciate that statement, consider Mr. Malo’s idols — all misfits who played “hillbilly” music when Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and the early rock ‘n’ rollers were the rage. COUNTRY TIMES: True Country: Raul Malo and The Mavericks bring their brand of music to town 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z His mercurial father hits him, and the rest of the clan are cartoonish hillbillies with guns and mullets and chewing tobacco habits. ‘The Best of Me’ movie review: Nicholas Sparks’s latest dishes out more of the same I'm a Deep South hillbilly who played and loves helmet sports - and knows enough to treat every woman with respect. Sexual Assault Case Against Treon Harris Is Dropped 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Even as Arkansas makes progress in education and employment, many residents are irked over outsiders stereotyping them as hillbillies. Loss of a Democratic Power Leaves Arkansas in Doubt 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The museum's exhibits trace the origins of hillbilly music through the fields, the train tracks and the churches of the Appalachian Mountains. Museum celebrating 'Big Bang' of country music opens in Virginia 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Jones had fouled out of a game against Holy Cross, and a fan a couple of rows up kept shouting things like, “Take your shoes off, Kentucky hillbilly, so you can get comfortable.” Wah Wah Jones, Versatile Kentucky Athlete, Dies at 88 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Because as beautiful as morning fog over an Ozarks valley can be, kids in the backseat since the 1950s have wanted to see an old hillbilly smoking a corncob pipe. Recent shootings heap new attention on Ozarks 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The state wisely clamped down on access to prescription opiate drugs such as OxyContin — known as “hillbilly heroin” — when overdoses rose in the mid-2000s. Editorial: Naloxone is a good antidote to a new heroin epidemic 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z For a show that so consistently nails its casting, Rappaport has proved a curious choice to play an intimidating Florida hillbilly. What Justified Needs to Fix in Time for Its Final Season 2014-04-08T16:21:49Z Entertainment also included a corporal doing magic tricks and three soldiers performing as a hillbilly band called the “P.O.W. Wows.” This Land: For Some, a Prison Camp Relic Stings as a Shrine to Nazism 2014-04-01T15:47:47Z “Reason why it don’t bother us, we’re just hillbillies,” said Mr. Ricketts, 55, who is related by marriage to some of the farm’s owners. 2,500 Pigs Join Debate Over Farms vs. Scenery 2013-12-28T02:59:23Z Before the opening of the film, which was the third-grossing film in the country last weekend, The New York Post published an article saying that it depicts the Ramapoughs as “New Jersey hillbillies.” New Film, ‘Out of the Furnace,’ Accused of Stereotyping Ramapough Indians 2013-12-12T03:08:59Z Some rampage-style missions have you laying waste to throngs of hillbillies, gangsters, aliens, and clowns. 'Grand Theft Auto V' Review - Part One: Escapism (PS3) 2013-09-24T21:38:00Z An Army soldier had pressed him weeks earlier in Kuwait about “hillbilly” armor and having to “dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal.” Condolences from the Secretary 2013-03-22T19:13:00Z To add to the outlandishness of an event where obsessive gamers are treated like rockstars, the game at the centre of it pits hillbilly space cowboys against stoic philosophical aliens and feral xenomorphs. Battle.net Championship wows the masses as gamers play to the crowds 2013-01-23T11:43:46Z “You go west of Ohio, west of Kentucky — people think we’re hillbillies.” Feeling Dragged Through the Mud, as MTV Comes to West Virginia 2013-01-02T00:26:01Z “He wasn’t trying to use college words to a hillbilly like me,” Mr. Thompson said. Akin Turns Gaffes Into Jokes in Missouri Senate Race 2012-10-29T01:31:00Z For the people doing the facials, it must have been like having a grime-encrusted hillbilly come out of the forest and ask for a Brazilian. My Multiday Massage-a-Thon 2012-10-28T05:17:03Z With just 10 days left, few self-described hillbillies in southwest Virginia are undecided. Romney Seeks Virginia Coal Country Edge 2012-10-27T18:17:20Z They think we are hillbillies, that this is our choice, that this is the way we want to live. West Virginia's poor feel the pinch: 'It's a choice: your medicine or your food' 2012-10-12T20:02:42Z Lacking two musicians, the hillbillies crank up a time machine to fetch them from Mozart’s era. On Religion: Vacation Bible School Spins Pop Culture 2012-07-27T15:39:33Z To combat the drink’s hillbilly image, the company bottles the moonshine in 750-milliliter glass bottles corked with a seal bearing an illustration of the Connecticut Charter Oak tree. | Craft Distilleries: Moonshine Moves Out of the Mason Jar 2012-07-21T05:35:33Z Williams calls himself "an executive hillbilly," but he's more than that. Hank Williams, Jr.'s new music takes on Obama 2012-07-12T19:01:31Z At first you have to fight the Pennsylvania hillbillies, but eventually you find your footing and they leave you alone. Junot Díaz: “Miss Lora.” 2012-04-16T04:00:00Z “The English language,” an omniscient narrator notes, has “deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, Valley girl, inner-city slang and various grunts.” How Low Can We Go? 2011-11-11T10:00:37Z I am just a hillbilly, like you,” he booms. A bad boy for Jesus: the Rev. Sam Childers found God, guns and movie fame 2011-09-30T00:42:06Z The song depicts a hillbilly too stupid to fix his roof in a rainstorm. Arkansas' hillbilly image resonates into 21st century 2011-09-25T20:21:30Z DNA samples were taken from 33 wild armadillos in Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, where they're sometimes referred to as "hillbilly speed bumps" because they're often run over by cars. DNA tests link Southern leprosy cases to armadillo 2011-04-27T21:01:08Z Until Rickey came to Brooklyn, he writes, “baseball was a sport for hillbillies with great eyesight.” The Man Who Hired Jackie Robinson 2011-03-25T20:09:07Z "She asked me: 'Couldn't you make it about moonshine?' and I felt so cruddy, as if we were coming down to the Ozarks to make a film about hillbillies." The nominees: 'I must keep a vow. I'm going to watch a circus' 2011-02-24T21:31:01Z He was trying to change me into a hillbilly, a savage! A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z But Arkansas has gotten an especially bum rap thanks to its own perpetuation of and profit from the hillbilly image, Cohen said. Arkansas' hillbilly image resonates into 21st century 2011-09-25T20:21:30Z Despite sacking Big Sam and having owners that know as much about football as a Nebraskan hillbilly does about Proust, Blackburn are officially not in crisis. Carlito's Way 2010-12-16T16:23:51Z "They were hiring every hick and hillbilly they could find, so off we went," said Ham, now 93 and living at his daughter's house in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Special Report: Is America the sick man of the globe? 2010-12-16T15:55:18Z His detractors labeled him a racist hillbilly, but quietly over the years he worked to shed that image. Sen. Robert Byrd dead at 92; West Virginia lawmaker was the longest serving member of Congress in history 2010-06-28T11:20:00Z His early campaigns were punctuated by his skills as a bluegrass fiddler that helped draw big and enthusiastic crowds for the self-described West Virginia "hillbilly." Senator Byrd dies at 92 2010-06-28T09:52:00Z Even today, the Ozark School District in northwest Arkansas has a hillbilly, with overalls and a shotgun, for its mascot. Arkansas' hillbilly image resonates into 21st century 2011-09-25T20:21:30Z “I may be a hillbilly, but not that bad.” Some See No Problem in Lack of Communication in Flood Area 2010-06-14T00:30:00Z While milking cows in rural Australia, he heard hillbilly yodelling on the radio and recorded his first disc aged 13. Unswinging '60s 2010-06-03T12:53:00Z “If somebody wanted to make something out of it, they could,” Vasey told me, “but they’d just look like some kind of misinformed hillbilly.” Can Animals Be Gay? 2010-04-01T19:34:00Z Maybe you need some hillbilly like me to do that. Finding the 2 players in Tiger's group at Augusta 2010-03-31T00:01:00Z This weekend, in conjunction with the Old State House Museum exhibit "Arkansas Arkansaw: A State And Its Reputation," academics addressed the ongoing inferiority complex the state has always suffered, thanks to hillbilly lore. Arkansas' hillbilly image resonates into 21st century 2011-09-25T20:21:30Z “They have the same knowing enthusiasm of the guys who tracked your penchant for Pacific Northwest garage rock or pre-CBS Telecaster hillbilly music,” he said. The Pour: New Wine Shops in New York Put Patrons at Ease 2010-03-24T04:40:00Z I thought, along with everyone else, that moonshine was just something made by lazy hillbillies. Moonshine: Not Just a Hillbilly Drink 2010-02-25T08:30:00Z Why should he assume a hillbilly family from way out in Oregon was any different? The House from Nowhere We got a whole platoon to shoot out and I want to see that hillbilly do the same thing in the standing position. Sonny He was an unlettered hillbilly and, being ashamed of his own ignorance, he was shy toward other men. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 Do you think I'm fool enuff to tackle that crowd of hillbillies? The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills The radio in the car was yangling with hillbilly songs, the only thing you can pick up in Ohio, but I didn't care. Highways in Hiding General Samford and General Garland were gone, so I couldn't get them to try to pressure a staff car out of the hillbilly who was dispatching vehicles. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects He's a hillbilly gaucho with a rhumba beat. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June Nobody� had any money except the hillbilly and he went home for the three days and really lived it up. The Biography of a Rabbit "Sounds like a backwoodsy hillbilly name to me," said Elephant, intending his words to sound like friendly teasing. The Forest Monster of Oz |
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