[lbo-talk] my weekend in "real" virginia

[John Thornton]

Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 09:22 AM 10/27/2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> there must be something particularly
>> insular and unwelcoming about the hillbillies.
>>
>> Doug
>
>
> Never been there but I know West Virginia boasts some wild and wooly 
> white people.  Boone County West Virginia is home (or was in the case 
> of Adkins who died in 2005) to both Hasil Adkins and Jesco White.  
> Adkins worked for decades as a one man band.  I saw him once live 
> playing guitar and singing, while slapping cymbals and snare with one 
> hand and playing bass drum with his foot.  Legend has it he learned 
> that way because growing up he listened to the radio and thought the 
> singer was doing everything.  He made some crazy records. One was 
> called Poultry in Motion. John Zorn is a fan and the Cramps recorded a 
> few of his songs. 

As a Hasil Adkins fan you must be familiar with The Legendary Stardust 
Cowboy as well.
He too started as a one man band.
Here he and T-Bone Burnette perform Paralyzed.
http://www.stardustcowboy.com/paralyze.au

John Thornton