CUTTING A SHINE (more Mountain Talk - full bonus)
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- CUTTING A SHINE (more Mountain Talk - full bonus)
The people of Southern Appalachia shine in this bonus feature from the original DVD of the public television program MOUNTAIN TALK.
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People often look at this like it’s odd but for me this is just my home, my people and my culture.
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.
why is it odd?? its not odd ....its just the way they are or lived / talked.....they look like really nice people.
@@trustworthydan shame... Where I'm at, the kids ain't forgotten a thing. If anything they're more enthusiastic than the old timers. I mean hell, Billy Strings has got to be the most well-respected musician in the world right now
Thank god these interviews are preserved for us youngin's to watch!
you mean young'uns
Near the Appalachian Trail in Maine, there are some families that are talking in a similar manner!!
I am blessed to have grown up in the heart of Appalachian. No matter where I roam I can hear them calling me home.
Just looked up Henry Queen. He passed in February. RIP to a great sounding musician.
Can you imagine the good music in heaven? Blows my mind.
Indeed. All of the Queen family are great musicians. I hadn't realized Henry had passed. Rip.
I was just wondering about him. Thanks for taking the time to find out, and let people know
Ahhh. 😥
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.
Much respect, Mr. Mark!
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
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
@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.
@@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.)
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.
Agreed. My dad wanted us to have more opportunities as well. It is a hard life.
Appalachians are a marvelous culture and people but they fall prey to the same types of depression, addiction and loss of self that many other groups do. I love WV(I'm a Marylander)but there exists the same crisis there and everywhere.
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!
Love the Appalachian people best people ever
Hahaha son you don't drink 180 proof shine. 🤣
You don't know shit from apple butter
@@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.
@@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.
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.
IT'S GOOD TO TOUCH THE GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME, PLAYING THE DAY LIGHTS OUT OF THAT BANGO. YOU GO FOR IT.
God Bless the Appalachian people. Pure America Keep it alive!
Thank you, GOD bless you too
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.
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.
Fox Fire book series.
TIFFANY McALLISTER...Amen and God bless you
and all the REAL folks! 🤗🤗😃😃🌹🌹♥️♥️
@@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!!!
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.
@@dindixie do share. Aunt Gladys says it's better give than receive!
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...
pride is a good thing my man. Peace to all .
I’m right there with you! ❤️
Same!!! WV, Melungeon/ScotsIrish mix 🥰👏🏼
Jim Tom talking about the little people is simply showing his Scots Irish roots
Its so cool how they have preserved their heritage and don't even know it..
@@codyleslie478 lol they know. they're country not stupid
Not just Irish and Scottish but also the Cherokee believe in "little people". Lot of Native blood in the mountains..
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.
Me too part Cherokee. Scotts Irish. ,,
@@duaneholcomb8408 me three
Cherokee county girl here! Scot-Irish and Cherokee decent and been in these mountains for generations.
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.
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
@@caroldenise9569 I'm Scottish. We still say a "Poke" of sweeties/biscuits etc..
I relate to most all of this. Thank God. I was born n 1968 and was raised n the Missouri Ozarks. So blessed.
This is whats wrong with the world we live in today.....THERE'S NOT MORE PEOPLE LIKE THESE PEOPLE. ...dang good simple folks
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.
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.
Thanks so much for recording these amazing people, love the mountains, music and character.
Love the banjo playing..💓
That’s most awesome renditions of Foggy Mountain Breakdown I’ve ever heard.
Rogee that 💯💯🔥
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.
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.
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
I am glad to be allowed to see me outside of myself.
I am glad to know I am not alone.
:)
Me too!!
I've really enjoyed this series! Great folks indeed
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!
They don't want recognition .....They are a proud folk.
@@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)
@@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.
Thank you so much for the kind words sir. I am a proud “Hillbilly”
5:36 - That young man plucks a mean banjo! Old boy on guitar is no slouch either.
Original speed metal
What I did not experience first hand I saw second hand in my young years. What a true showing of Appalachian life.
A friendly practical bunch of folks that would be fun to visit with.
love listening to the history
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,
I live in Cruso, right down the road from there
Me too used to live in swain now in Alabama. But I,miss home,,,,
I'm from Wilkes country foothills blue ridge in Ohio now and do miss home
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.
that banjo playing young man is a musical genius!!!!!
oh I love the songs and the stories so much!
Great stuff, this is real entertainment. GOD Bless!!!
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.
all of your documentaries are super relaxing
Something about this makes me cry
Thank you for sharing your way of life. I really miss the mountains.
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.
East Tennessee here feels like home
I love these people!
Love the music, and the singing, nothing like it, 💙❤️🙏🙏🙏
We love you Henry and the whole family. Your hard work is a huge part of our mountain traditions much love to you all. God bless, Oldfirekeeper Great Smokey Mountains N.C
I could listen to Jim Tom talk for days 😂
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.
i would have loved to have stayed there, nice & peaceful.
Just love these folks !
Loved indulging in yall culture....banjo was awesome.... 😉 the ghetto boy in me says hi to the hillbillie in you, God bless
Nice guitar playing, love that G run!
i literally downloaded the audio and listen to it as a song
As a native North Carolinian, and a NCSU alum, I approve!
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.
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.
Same here, and I was born and raised in the Blue Ridge Mtns. of Northwestern NC.....
@@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.
@@bkjustice9390 Me and mine use it that way here in KY . Best banjo and guitar picking I've heard ever heard, by the way.
Love Jim Tom. He was a character.
R.I.P. 😔
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."
I enjoyed this video a lot. Thank you for sharing this part of your life!
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 ❤️
The banjo seems like the perfect instrument of the South.
We play the mountain dulcimer too.
@@mistermisanthrope4106 ...and ?
@@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.
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
That dude Bryan must be on that mountain magic weed.😂
What a great accent. I would love to live there for a while, just to see how life really is.
Thank you for sharing!!💜
that ole foggy mtn breakdown sounds GOOD i love hearin them old timers gettin after it
Thank you for keeping this music alive. Simple life is the best.
I could listen to jim tom talk for hours. Would love to taste some of the moonshine that he makes.
Very nice , thank you for sharing
There’s nothing like living in the mountains ❤
Granny would say fetch go fetch me this or fetch me that.
101 comments. and 52, 394 views.........Seems you hit a spot on a soul. well done.
Honey, we said cuttin' a shine when someone was being very extra, or acting out of pocket!! ... or maybe drunk and busted their ass 🤣👏🏼
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
Real Americans, salt of the earth.
I enjoyed this article
Guilford Williams is some top-shelf unintentional ASMR.
My father was born in Robbinsville, NC... my great grandparents and all my heritage in Murphy, NC
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:)!!!
Belle it's not guitar in them thar hills it's Geetar,😁
20:33 what a beautiful violin.
Cloggin’ to Foggy Mountain Breakdown!
I don't want fop god dammit, I'm a dapper Dan man!
The married couple at 24:07...I'm crying.
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.
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
Great video thanks for sharing GOD BLESS
Glad to see many or most all my neighbors know how Ann's are willing to teach
Yo that's Jim Tom master moonshiner! He was on that show on discovery 😃
I’m Mexicajun I speak Spanish but I do have a Southern Accent and I am Cajun from the south state of Louisiana speaking French combined with a southern Accent Louisiana has a southern accent occurring with Cajun
Прекрасные люди! 👍💖 Привет из Сибири!💖
I live in West Virginia and don’t leave my house without a side arm and a dog
That's REAL MUSIC !!!!!!!!
Popcorn Sutton. One of the most legendary shiners in America. People in Kentucky to this day are still trying to produce as good of shine.
He was headed for prison after he made 'shine for filming. He killed himself.
My grandpa was from the hills, I'd move there in a minute but the wife won't go.
One of those guys looks like someone from that moonshiners tv show on discovery channel. lol
Yeah at least one of them is from that area in this video.
Cool
I love country people
Is that old man on the moonshiners show the one that Popcorn Sutton used to be on.
Yes, that was Jim Tom & Popcorn Sutton
Always heard dancing called.... Cutting a rug 😂
I need me a Banjo asap.
Oh, bless TH-cam's heart for the attempt at the auto-captions on this video! :) (I'm a proud western North Carolinian. Let's just say that the auto-captioning "don't speak Southern.")
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I was a little girl......my uncles/aunts talking funny.....
That's a real banger @5:35