In 1939 they drove their Model A to the Sacramento State Fair and entered a hillbilly band competition. The Maddox siblings took the stage and ripped through “Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down ...

Is there really such a thing as a hillbilly band covering rock classics? You betcha. They are called Hayseed Dixie and they play Rockgrass. Barley Scotch is on lead vocals, fiddle and guitar.

A four-piece hillbilly band strummed its way throughThe Last Thing I Want Is Your Pity, then swung nasally into something called I Wish I Knew How Much You Loved Me. Next the featured singer ...

Speaking of their common “hillbilly” upbringing — with both men having “pillbilly mamas” — self-described “liberal redneck” ...

In a sound truck with a speaker’s stand on top, with a hillbilly band and singers, and an old-age pension slogan lifted from one of his songs (“Please pass the biscuits, Pappy!”), ...

The famous filmmaker, 70, has a history with Vance, 40, who wrote the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” that was adapted into a 2020 Netflix film directed by Howard. But now that Vance is Donald Trump ...

WASHINGTON – About halfway through the show with his All Starr Band, Ringo Starr reached into the crowd to retrieve a sign proffered by a fan. “I agree!” he said with a smile as he held up ...

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Ron Howard may have directed J.D. Vance‘s life story in the 2020 Netflix drama Hillbilly Elegy, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to vote for him when he runs alongside Donald Trump in this ...

He helped turn Vance's memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy" into a film, serving as its director in 2020. During a recent interview with Variety at the Toronto International Film Festival, Howard said he was ...