 I Laid My Mother Away,' he sees her a-laying right there in the coffin. He sings more sincere than most entertainers because the hillbilly was raised rougher than most entertainers. You got to know a lot about hard work. You got to have smelt a lot of...  Redneck Liberation: Country Music as Theology - Page 1by David Fillingim - 2003 - 170 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Roger M. Williams - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 336 pages
...because the hillbilly was raised rougher than most entertainers. You got to know a lot about hard work. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. The people who has been raised something like the way the hillbilly has knows what he is singing about... | |
 | Charles East - Fiction - 1987 - 324 pages
...grin maniacally and deepened his voice to a rough contralto. " 'You got to know a lot about hard work. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. The people who has been raised the way a hillbilly has knows what he is singing about and appreciates... | |
 | Barry Shank - Music - 1994 - 328 pages
...because the hillbilly was raised rougher than most entertainers. You got to know a lot about hard work. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly."76 From the vocal virtuosity of Lefty Frizzell to the genuine performances of Willie Nelson,... | |
 | Associate Professor of Music David Brackett, David Brackett - Music - 1995 - 288 pages
...because the hillbilly was raised rougher than most entertainers. You got to know a lot about hard work. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. The people who has been raised something like the way the hillbilly has knows what he is singing about... | |
 | Curtis W. Ellison - Country music - 1995 - 360 pages
...because the hillbilly was raised rougher than most entertainers. You got to know a lot about hard work. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. The people who has been raised something like the way the hillbilly has knows what he is singing about... | |
 | Barbara Ching - Music - 2001 - 200 pages
...shortly after his death. Ostensibly explaining his theory about success in country music, he asserts that "you got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly." While nearly all who cite this remark take it literally, there's no reason to believe that Williams,... | |
 | George William Koon - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 200 pages
...singer was brought up in tough circumstances; he knew about life, about hard work. In Hank's words, "you got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. The people who had been raised something like the way the hillbilly has knows what he is singing about... | |
 | Terry Teachout - Fiction - 2002 - 212 pages
...because the hillbilly was raised rougher than most entertainers. You got to know a lot about hard work. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly." That was what I heard in the songs Greg and Ken taught me: they reeked of the harsh, smoky odor of... | |
 | Joe S. Harrington - Music - 2002 - 626 pages
...essentially doing a Blues as pure as Robert Johnsons, Williams would one day explain his Blues this way: "You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillhilly." ' To today's superhip it might seem inconceivable, but once upon a time, in the South,... | |
 | Jeffrey J. Lange - Music - 2004 - 340 pages
...of authenticity. Hank Williams stated the case more blundy: "You got to know a lot about hard work. You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. The people who have been raised something like the way the hillbilly has knows what he is singing about... | |
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