People often look at this like it’s odd but for me this is just my home, my people and my culture.

@trustworthydan

Жыл бұрын

I'm from Kentucky, bout 50 miles from the Cumberland gap. I live at the end of a dead end road that leads up in the mountain. All the old heads that are like this are passing away. I miss them.

@danzbutrfly

16 күн бұрын

why is it odd?? its not odd ....its just the way they are or lived / talked.....they look like really nice people.

The mountain and Appalachian life is a bit of a Catch-22. Growing up in the mountains was a hard but simple life and you wish to pass some of that onto your kids. But you also want something better for your kids and have a life that you didn't have i.e. going to college, getting a better education and life experiences, etc. I am the latter. I grew up in the mountains of WV to parents with a barebones education and worked very hard. But I went away for college and now live overseas working. I miss my upbringing in the hills, but my parents are so proud that their boy "made it out." There's a lot of romanticism of isolated mountain life, but there are many hardships as well. The current opiod crisis is destroying my home state of WV.

@caliope6480

10 күн бұрын

Agreed. My dad wanted us to have more opportunities as well. It is a hard life.

Thank god these interviews are preserved for us youngin's to watch!

@christopherfreeman1340

2 жыл бұрын

you mean young'uns

@peterhunt5072

2 жыл бұрын

Near the Appalachian Trail in Maine, there are some families that are talking in a similar manner!!

I'm 5 shots of authentic Tennessee moonshine (not from Gatlinburg--180 proof illegal stuff!) in and I love seeing my people represented in a positive light! Appalachian pride!

@brad4110

2 жыл бұрын

Love the Appalachian people best people ever

@treybarrier5574

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha son you don't drink 180 proof shine. 🤣

@jbaker4900

2 жыл бұрын

You don't know shit from apple butter

@christopherfreeman1340

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbaker4900Apple butty teks from sunrise to sunset to mek and shit is what I do after I ait 5 gallons of it on some hot biskits. Do I know duh diffrents b'twixt duh two J baker? Applebutter takes about 12 hours make and bullshit never ceases as long as the world goes round. So many people on all the different social media,take stuff to the sleeve just have something to blart about in anger without a real cause to be angry.Does not the Bible tells us not be angry at neighbors without having a cause to be,otherwise it is to be.

@christopherfreeman1340

2 жыл бұрын

@@treybarrier5574 that stuff must be distilled 10 times over to get that much water content out of it. 180 proof would be around 95 to 98 percent alcohol that's possible. 190 proof Everclear makes good paint and varnish stripper. Avg. untaxed home distilled is about in all reality 75 to 90 proof. Being most people jar it up after only one run through the still. I trust you make it yourself out of non-gmo corn and use clean sweet spring or branch water and not sink water or store bought. You have a good mash made from good selected yellow corn to get that sweet mellow corn taste with a slow burn. All whisky has a burn to it going down the gullet into the flew.

There’s nothing like living in the mountains ❤

I'm 68. My father died when I was five. He was born in Kentucky in 1896, and that's not a typo. He would listen to serious old-timey music like that in your video on 98 rpm lacquer records and that ain't a typo either. You just brought back my childhood.

@SaberToothGary

3 жыл бұрын

Much respect, Mr. Mark!

@blackjackmusic1107

3 жыл бұрын

I'm A Kentucky boy as well...I live right across the road from Bill Monroes' birth place in Rosine ...I'm 39 yrs old...My Grandmas sister was married to Bills brother and my Dad was born in Bills brothers cabin...I love these hills and I love our music and our slang/speech...I'd not want to be any where else in the world...Bless'ya Mark

@davidhirschv7903

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Mark, I am writing a paper on hillbilly and mountian culture and how the sterotypes that most percieve, would you be willing to be a part of a small interview? Ive done a few with other folks from kentucky but Im needing a few others to really get a picture of the culture from people within it. Thanks Dave

@C.O.G.

2 жыл бұрын

@Mark Ferguson, how many older siblings did you have? My dad was born in 1908 and he was 48 when I was born. I had 10 half brothers and sisters (from dad's first marriage) and five whole, younger brothers and sisters (from his and mom's marriage); sixteen of us total. I was an aunt (half aunt) before I was born and a half great-aunt at the age of 17. My dad lived to be 80 years "young". He worked on the L&N railroad for 42 years (30 or so of those years as a "Section Foreman") and was awarded many medals and commendations for his outstanding work for the L&N. My mom was the daughter of a Baptist preacher and one of the finest women who ever lived. I miss them both so much, but I treasure the memories and the values and life lessons that they taught me. My dad was also born in Kentucky; a few miles north of the the Tennessee state line, near Jellico, TN.

@markfergerson2145

2 жыл бұрын

@@C.O.G. Not a very large family (that I know of!). One older half-brother, one older sister, one younger sister. But then, my parents married only a few years before I was born. They raised me right and I miss them too even though my father raised me with a razor strop. (I earned it fair and square though.)

I am blessed to have grown up in the heart of Appalachian. No matter where I roam I can hear them calling me home.

God Bless the Appalachian people. Pure America Keep it alive!

@roxycouch8031

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, GOD bless you too

I love these glimpses into a kinder, gentler time. Brings back a lot of fond memories; milking cows before dawn, gathering eggs, feeding the chickens and other livestock, all before catching the "bus" (an old station wagon driven by the local grocer) to the little village and then catching the regular school bus. After school, it was dinner first then chores and homework. An hour or two of (black and white) T.V. shows then bed and the whole routine started over in the morning. I miss those days of farm life and would trade this small town living for them in a heartbeat.

@sandraroberts7406

Жыл бұрын

IT'S GOOD TO TOUCH THE GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME, PLAYING THE DAY LIGHTS OUT OF THAT BANGO. YOU GO FOR IT.

Just looked up Henry Queen. He passed in February. RIP to a great sounding musician.

@suzanneflowers2230

3 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the good music in heaven? Blows my mind.

@vannah12222

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. All of the Queen family are great musicians. I hadn't realized Henry had passed. Rip.

@dawno5656

3 жыл бұрын

I was just wondering about him. Thanks for taking the time to find out, and let people know

@brighterdays2come

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh. 😥

Jim Tom talking about the little people is simply showing his Scots Irish roots

@codyleslie478

Жыл бұрын

Its so cool how they have preserved their heritage and don't even know it..

@XaltaTarot-qs2hc

11 ай бұрын

@@codyleslie478 lol they know. they're country not stupid

I'm from that Cherokee Indian reservation Jim Tom references. We're native southerners through and through with Scots- Irish ancestry as well. I love my mountain home.

@duaneholcomb8408

2 жыл бұрын

Me too part Cherokee. Scotts Irish. ,,

@jenpeace3763

2 жыл бұрын

@@duaneholcomb8408 me three

@Trogers1212

2 жыл бұрын

Cherokee county girl here! Scot-Irish and Cherokee decent and been in these mountains for generations.

If any of them ever wonder? Someone they’ll never know just loves them SO MUCH!!! That’s me... WVa , Scots-Irish roots , Appalachia... love the people, music, love it all...♥️🙏🏻Sending it all to y’all !❣️🕊peace and joy...

@veyger1970

3 жыл бұрын

pride is a good thing my man. Peace to all .

@suzybailey-koubti8342

2 жыл бұрын

I’m right there with you! ❤️

@buffywinfree

7 ай бұрын

Same!!! WV, Melungeon/ScotsIrish mix 🥰👏🏼

I loved seeing my Uncle Leon and cousin Charles playing guitar and my cousin Jeremy playing banjo. So many memories. Thank you for this video.

@billybrumley6040

Жыл бұрын

Is this some of my family life .Billy Brumley.

Really wish we could start something to pass along the mountain ways. We've always known how to live off the land and fish, hunt. Not for sport but just taking what we will eat and share. Growing, music, how to find water in the forest, knowing the trees. They've put a stigma to mountain people and make our kids believe they need to be like everyone on social media and reality T.V. We need to teach our youth to be proud just as any other heritage and keep it, so it will continue to be passed along. Like quilting, log homes, crops, roots, I can go on and on. Even my father will look at me crazy and say you didn't knew that. It may be common knowledge to them, but where I grew up in the city. I'm teeing to learn all I can.

@stephenfox3236

3 жыл бұрын

Fox Fire book series.

@georgealexander8661

3 жыл бұрын

TIFFANY McALLISTER...Amen and God bless you and all the REAL folks! 🤗🤗😃😃🌹🌹♥️♥️

@tiffanywoods4126

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenfox3236 That's so funny you said that I was trying to plan a trip to go to their homestead and my mother used to have a wealth of those books we can't find them though. Thank you Stephen!!!

@dindixie

3 жыл бұрын

I wish I'd've learned more from from my dad's family in West Virginia. So much knowledge lost... I did learn Aunt Gladys' apple butter secret, though.

@stephenfox3236

3 жыл бұрын

@@dindixie do share. Aunt Gladys says it's better give than receive!

Thanks so much for recording these amazing people, love the mountains, music and character.

Western Canadian here: My father came from Scotland in 1907 at 5 years old (and twin and an older brother) There were various figures of speech and words he used that nobody else used. I heard them here. Absolutely was not expecting that.

@caroldenise9569

3 жыл бұрын

My great grandfather came from Scotland at age 3 and lived in the Appalachian area, and used the same figures of speech. Most came from Ireland and Scotland

@patsavage1245

2 жыл бұрын

@@caroldenise9569 I'm Scottish. We still say a "Poke" of sweeties/biscuits etc..

That’s most awesome renditions of Foggy Mountain Breakdown I’ve ever heard.

@LadyOaksNZ

2 жыл бұрын

Rogee that 💯💯🔥

There was a man in our town that had "Little People". I stopped and gave him a ride one day (he walked ever where cause he didn't have a car). Well he got in my car but didn't shut the door. I said, "Hugh, shut the door so I can drive off." He said, "No, I got ta wait til the Little People get in." So I waited a bit. He got the door shut and we drove off. When I told people about how Hugh did they told me he went on that way all the time.

This is whats wrong with the world we live in today.....THERE'S NOT MORE PEOPLE LIKE THESE PEOPLE. ...dang good simple folks

@trustworthydan

Жыл бұрын

There are still people like this, the media demonizes them for not having an education and being backwards. They're phasing out my heritage because of the negative traits, no one gets to see the good.

@FasterFaster196

Жыл бұрын

Oh be quiet. There's people all around you living poor lives. Stop it. Sure funny how everybody wants to bless these folks with love when for far more than a hundred years they were shunned and ostracized as ignorant and backwoods. Their kids died of preventable illnesses bc of malnutrition. Look around. There's poor as dirt people living simple lives all around us.

I remember watching heehaw on tv late at night at grammas. When someone would knock on the door, well an hour later the house was full of bluegrass music and gramma would fire up the coffee pot and stove. As a kid this was like disneyland at home. Us kids would dance and laugh untill weee hours of the mornin. I rekon i miss it a bunch.

@petergomez6991

Жыл бұрын

My Gramma loved heehaw too, especially when Minnie pearl was on

My Graham relatives immigrated from Scotland then settled in North Carolina. Many of the expressions I’ve heard on this series remind me of the expressions my dad would use. Thank you for posting this.

Love the banjo playing..💓

I relate to most all of this. Thank God. I was born n 1968 and was raised n the Missouri Ozarks. So blessed.

5:36 - That young man plucks a mean banjo! Old boy on guitar is no slouch either.

@nathanmullins836

3 жыл бұрын

Original speed metal

I am glad to be allowed to see me outside of myself. I am glad to know I am not alone. :)

@walkerlawless7252

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!!

I just want to say thank God for the simple way of life this brought back memories of my grandparents and moma and daddy and the way they raised us God bless and thanks for sharing this video.

RIP Henry Queen. Pickin n Grinnin in paradise now

What I did not experience first hand I saw second hand in my young years. What a true showing of Appalachian life.

Miss the mountains of NC. My Pop used to sing these silly little diddies. One was shut the door, I'm comin thru the winder. shut the winder I'm coming thru the door. Can't remember much of anything. Wish i would have wrote them down. Its a shame but the old ways are fading fast. Im glad someone took the time to make this video. I wish there were more. Stories, songs, and jokes from Appalachian heritage.

i'm from Appalachia, born n raised in the bluegrass region of KY. but i live in the mountains now and i love it so much. it's such a unique region, i can't express in words how great Appalachia is. oh man, its ole Jim Tom! awesome, he is like Appalachia personified

A friendly practical bunch of folks that would be fun to visit with.

that banjo playing young man is a musical genius!!!!!

I was born in raised in maggie valley North Carolina right at these folks, I'm in Alabama now have been for 10 years nom I'm 51 yo and damn I miss home some of the greatest guitar or banjo players I ever heard none that I knew could read a lick of music, but could play the damn strings off the thing,

@kyledeitz2760

3 жыл бұрын

I live in Cruso, right down the road from there

@duaneholcomb8408

2 жыл бұрын

Me too used to live in swain now in Alabama. But I,miss home,,,,

I've really enjoyed this series! Great folks indeed

love listening to the history

Great stuff, this is real entertainment. GOD Bless!!!

I don't shine much today. This video made me shine :)

My daddy was from west Virginia and he sure knew how to play that harmonica! I miss hearing him play and sing those little songs.

These people are so lovely, proud of who they are and the place they belong to and represent a true piece of living history, the old traditions and stories that have been passed through generations. I have always felt some kind of fascination for the ´´hillbilly´´ culture, the banjo, the lovely accent, but above everything the proud and uniqueness they carry themselves. Great vid, I enjoyed every second of it!

@veyger1970

3 жыл бұрын

They don't want recognition .....They are a proud folk.

@chilenskbjorn8737

3 жыл бұрын

@@veyger1970 I think they do, specially in a country that creates stereotypes of them, sees them as weirdos with no education and even in politics use them to criticize the other side (leftist specially, the same who claim to go against discrimination and cry for everything then talk about the ´´white trash´´ that supported Trump)

@mistermisanthrope4106

3 жыл бұрын

@@chilenskbjorn8737 To be fair, we Mountain folk don't lose a wink of sleep worrying about what others think about us. In a way,we don't exist with everyone else, it's our own world here.

@roxycouch8031

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words sir. I am a proud “Hillbilly”

Loved indulging in yall culture....banjo was awesome.... 😉 the ghetto boy in me says hi to the hillbillie in you, God bless

East Tennessee here feels like home

Something about this makes me cry

I could listen to Jim Tom talk for days 😂

@duaneholcomb8408

2 жыл бұрын

And you might have too cause he will plum talk your ear off. Mightvas well set a spell. Cause you ain't going no where soon.

all of your documentaries are super relaxing

Nice guitar playing, love that G run!

I'm an old Hillbilly from the Ramapough Mts of Jersey and proud of it

@user-pq6mr6op3p

2 жыл бұрын

Jersey? Son you must of bumped your head.

i literally downloaded the audio and listen to it as a song

April 17, 2022 Thanks a million for this very interesting Documentary!!

I live out in the country in the hills of SE Ohio and have a friend from Tucker County WV. He is the one who taught me about cutting a shine! There are many wonderful sayings I remember from the men I worked with over the years. One was when someone wreck a car or drove off the side of the road was, "He couldn't drive a cork in a bottle." There are many wonderful people in our country, but you only see the bad people on the news. Go to the hills if you want to see GOOD people.

As a native North Carolinian, and a NCSU alum, I approve!

I love these people!

Thank you for sharing your way of life. I really miss the mountains.

mercy this here makes me feel like im at home again thank you

Love the music, and the singing, nothing like it, 💙❤️🙏🙏🙏

That dude Bryan must be on that mountain magic weed.😂

oh I love the songs and the stories so much!

My grandmother and grandfather where born in 1920's in Russel County Virgina moved to Kingsport Tennessee, they new the Carters in poor valley and any of these people could be my relatives

i would have loved to have stayed there, nice & peaceful.

My Grandma was born in 1896, "Cuttin' A Shine" is when they would sprinkle corn meal out on a wood floor and then dance on it. Their leather- sole shoes would shine the floor with a golden glaze of corn meal. Reminds me of the old song, "Golden Slippers."

Thank you for sharing!!💜

I could listen to jim tom talk for hours. Would love to taste some of the moonshine that he makes.

My pops said id never be accepted being from california. But i will retire in those mountains going back to where gramma and granpa came from before leadin the horse team to calif for a better life. I suspect they were leaving a life i will someday seek.

Just love these folks !

God bless em

My family always used the term "cuttin a shine" to refer to someone pitching a fit or causing a disturbance. Like an unruly child for example.

@surgeongeneralsmokes

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, and I was born and raised in the Blue Ridge Mtns. of Northwestern NC.....

@bkjustice9390

3 жыл бұрын

@@surgeongeneralsmokes half of my family is from Asheville but it was the other half that was from eastern Ky. that used that term in my family.

@sunflowerlady1810

3 жыл бұрын

@@bkjustice9390 Me and mine use it that way here in KY . Best banjo and guitar picking I've heard ever heard, by the way.

I enjoyed this video a lot. Thank you for sharing this part of your life!

Very nice , thank you for sharing

What a great accent. I would love to live there for a while, just to see how life really is.

Love Jim Tom. He was a character. R.I.P. 😔

Great video thanks for sharing GOD BLESS

I enjoyed this article

I love, Love this. This people make me rethink life choice. MAtter fact, it makes me wiser and knowledgeable in a that's it's not boast. If their ancestors moved to get freedom. WHy on earth would spoiled lil ole hacker's be looking for trouble from these humble souls? My childhood was literally like this. And the outside world were like the neighbourhood kids cause daddy wasn't too worried about money etc. Lil hard work, God, family that's all that it matters. I miss ma daddy! We moved to city life although I don't live inside the city. it's still the country side but it's not farm from the big city. Simple life can still make you happy. Music entertain them and it's not boast ❤️

101 comments. and 52, 394 views.........Seems you hit a spot on a soul. well done.

Granny would say fetch go fetch me this or fetch me that.

that ole foggy mtn breakdown sounds GOOD i love hearin them old timers gettin after it

Yo that's Jim Tom master moonshiner! He was on that show on discovery 😃

Glad to see many or most all my neighbors know how Ann's are willing to teach

I really enjoy these:)!!! We had a second cousin that used to come visit and play the guitar and sing and that was also, so much fun:)! My first cousins, a set of cousins sang and one played the guitar it was so fun, too:)! We always had so much fun with music in our family:)! Good times:)!!!

@chucklee2995

3 жыл бұрын

Belle it's not guitar in them thar hills it's Geetar,😁

The banjo seems like the perfect instrument of the South.

@mistermisanthrope4106

3 жыл бұрын

We play the mountain dulcimer too.

@jimtruscott5670

3 жыл бұрын

@@mistermisanthrope4106 ...and ?

@mistermisanthrope4106

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimtruscott5670 What do you mean "and?", there's a lot of different instruments that are popular here. The dulcimer & banjo are amongst the traditional instruments.

Honey, we said cuttin' a shine when someone was being very extra, or acting out of pocket!! ... or maybe drunk and busted their ass 🤣👏🏼

Damn, subtitle autogeneration has become seriously good if it can get even mountain talk right with so few errors. As the fella in the main video said, it's not an easy language, and it's not. Yet it managed to get even Jim Tom's rapid-fire drawl mostly right. I wish TL&LP would do a proofread and provide revised subtitles, though.

Guilford Williams is some top-shelf unintentional ASMR.

Cloggin’ to Foggy Mountain Breakdown!

@JAWGA912

11 ай бұрын

I don't want fop god dammit, I'm a dapper Dan man!

The married couple at 24:07...I'm crying.

My father was born in Robbinsville, NC... my great grandparents and all my heritage in Murphy, NC

Ok when I watched the documentary at first I thought the old lady in the red sweater (Mary queen) had an annoying singing voice. At this point though it’s one of the most memorable and fascinating voices I’ve ever heard she’s just hypnotic with that unique sound

I love this. Mark Laita brought me here. My entire family is from the mountains. Unfortunately over the last two generations the entire clan moved north for work, Ending up in Detroit. One full generation and besides stuff like this, the culture has been completely erased in my family

20:33 what a beautiful violin.

Прекрасные люди! 👍💖 Привет из Сибири!💖

I’m 42 and know how to make maple syrup can remember my dad taping the maple trees and boiled it and made it remember every fall slaughtering hogs for winter

Thank you for keeping this music alive. Simple life is the best.

Awesome stuff!

I'm wondering what's on them cassette tapes on Guilford Williams' table thar at 4:35 minutes?

Real Americans, salt of the earth.

I love country people

One of those guys looks like someone from that moonshiners tv show on discovery channel. lol

@dannygjk

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah at least one of them is from that area in this video.

Cool

Is that old man on the moonshiners show the one that Popcorn Sutton used to be on.

@mistermisanthrope4106

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that was Jim Tom & Popcorn Sutton

Hello. Does anyone know if the song Jeremy Bolden plays on banjo around 6.30 has a title? It's so great I love it so much. Thank you x

@BonnieBlue2A

3 жыл бұрын

basementjunk I believe that is Foggy Mountain Breakdown

@londonsoulcat

3 жыл бұрын

@@BonnieBlue2A Thank you Bonnie! These bluegrass players are another level! ❤

@jaybyrd3670

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely Foggy Mountain Breakdown. One of my favorite songs ever. The faster the better.