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The Hillbilly Highway was a parallel to the better-known Great Migration of African-Americans from the south. Many of these Appalachian migrants went to major industrial centers such as Detroit, Chicago, [2] Cleveland, [3] Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Milwaukee, Toledo, and Muncie, [4] while others traveled west to ...
Stephen Fain Earle (/ ɜːr l /; born January 17, 1955) is an American country, rock and folk singer-songwriter. He began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982.
While "Hillbilly Highway" is a metaphor, many Appalachian people who arrived in Detroit literally traveled along "Hillbilly Highways" such as U.S. Route 23 and Interstate 75. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In Chad Berry's Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles , he claims that 66,000 white Appalachian people resided in Detroit in 1930.
"Hillbilly Highway" is a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Steve Earle. It was released in March 1986 as the first single from the album Guitar Town. The song reached #37 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] The song was written by Earle and Jimbeau Hinson.
The first known instances of "hillbilly" in print were in The Railroad Trainmen's Journal (vol. ix, July 1892), [2] an 1899 photograph of men and women in West Virginia labeled "Camp Hillbilly", [3] and a 1900 New York Journal article containing the definition: "a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the ...
According to Don McLeese's book Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, it was not until the expansion into the Reprise LP that the singer was inspired to write the song "Guitars, Cadillacs," with the "and hillbilly music" replacing the "etceteras" that appeared on the original EP cover, and the executives at Warner Bros. balked, fearing ...
Before he was a politician, Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance was largely known for his 2016 memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" about his Appalachian childhood.
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 [1] – August 16, 2005 [2]) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler.Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions. [3]