Howdy From Hillbilly Country!

Yes, Popcorn Sutton went to the big still in the sky.
 
Welcome!

Did you finance with Mr. Drysdale? Im the MAN

Love to see the new cars! Hope there isn't a couch involved :)
 
Hoytman said:
Don't know anything about an underground operation, any black mold, anything blowing up, or who "those guys" are. I'm sure more than one runner had his fair share of problems...especially if you had to figure it all out by yourself...as in no one passing is down to you.

All I know is there were/are some pretty prominent folks on this earth who really liked what he made. He was famous, before he was "famous"...and his run-ins with the feds prove that.

One thing I do think Popcorn was wrong in saying...he'll never be the last shiner...ever. They'll always be someone to take his place. He was right in that it was a heck of a lot of work, which was his point in making the cd they produced.

I took it for what it was meant to be, a preservation of history. I'm glad he produced it and stuck his neck out to do it. However, I would like to see the un-cut version...you know...the one where they show everything from start to finish. :D:cheers:
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Hi guy! :)
Was talking about the show "Moonshiners" that just aired it's final show of the season. One pair was very close to Popcorn, drives his old flatbed truck, even lives next to his grave. They built a structure for an outdoor bluegrass festival and dug out the earth from underneath it for a still. ;) Problem is, they didn't allow for any air circulation. Actually it's a good thing that they ended up with mold as if they'd fired up the still and it had burned all the oxygen in the space they would have both succumed and fell to their deaths then and there.

FWIW, my oldest half-sister is married to a Mountian man from Suches Ga. He grew up so far up in the hills you had to pipe sunshine in! ;) Water ran 24/7 into his mothers kitchen from a spring up on the mountain. In the winter the pipes would freeze and it'd all turn to a block of ice. In the fall we were up there one year helping with the collard crop. My wife and I helped clear TWO acres and his step dad, Dillard, gave us THREE BUCKS each! I just turned and gave it back to him, he obviously needed it worse then we did. :dunno:

Way back in 77 we were up there during "Apple Jack" season when his brother called, G-men were on the way. We had to load up 30 barrels of fermenting apples on a flatbed truck (well 3 trucks actually) so he could make them disappear into the woods! :rolleyes: And that ain't all they grew/er made up there either. :laughing:
 
All I get is youtube...we boycotted the cable and satellite programming. LOL! Didn't know about any show called Moonshiners.

Know all about piping in sunshine as most of my kin live there, or is from there...the mountains that is. Good story. Have a few myself.
 
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