Hull's public manner was invariably formal and correct, as if to insist that he never be taken for a hillbilly from the hollows of middle Tennessee.
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He challenged his wife's uncle to a wrestling match and explained to a room full of dinner guests that he had converted, he had become a hillbilly Jew.
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What -- to normal people at least -- might appear to be the stuff of nightmares, is actually a fully functioning animatronic hillbilly band for sale on eBay.
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According to Ford, a fully depleted battery takes less than 3 hours to charge using a 220V charger, and 7 hours with a drop cord plugged into to a household wall socket, hillbilly style.
Kennedy Jr. launch George magazine, where he served as a contributing editor and wrote the "Capital Hillbilly" column.
"Because I work in public relations, and because I am aware that some employ a negative image of people with strong 'hillbilly' accents, I tend to modify my speech when I am conducting business, " says Holmes, who lives in London, Kentucky.
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At 81, the amiable Mr. Strachwitz, whose family relocated to the U.S. West Coast in 1947, recalls falling first for early jazz when seeing the Louis Armstrong-Billie Holliday film "New Orleans" as a teenager, then hearing everything from hardcore hillbilly to "Harlem Matinee" and the Serbo-Croatian hour on Los Angeles-area radio.
From Richard Rose, my wild, wonderful West Virginia hillbilly Zen master, I learned what a magical thing life really is.
The hillbilly and the Mexico City princess married in 1962 and moved to a farm in Centralia, Wash.
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Many bands and performers who were to become musical legends passed through the show including U2, REM, The Smiths, Depeche Mode and Joy Division - but of late On the Wire has taken a more relaxed view of the music scene and is as likely to play pre-war hillbilly music as much as experimental dance or dub.
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