I have noticed that these pop bands will play our hillbilly songs when they cain't eat any other way!
You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.
I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?
The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.
Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.
I have been living in Montgomery so long that I call it home.
I learned to play the git-tar from an old colored man in the streets of Montgomery. He was named Tetot, and he played in a colored street band.
My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.
I wish I was back at WSFA making twelve dollars a week. At least then, if someone come to see me, I'd know they were coming to see me. Now I reckon they just want something from me.
I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
